How To Make Chicken Caesar Pasta Salad
This pasta salad recipe takes shredded chicken breasts and al dente pasta and mixes them with a caesar dressing, tomatoes, and fresh lettuce.
Preparation: 10 minutes
Cooking: 20 minutes
Total: 30 minutes
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1lbdry pasta
- 1lbchicken breasts,cooked, diced or shredded into bite-sized pieces
- 1Romaine lettuce,small, roughly chopped about 5-6 cups loosely packed
- 1pintcherry tomatoes,or grape tomatoes
- 1cupcroutons,homemade or store-bought
- 1batchGreek Yogurt Caesar Dressing
- ⅓cupparmesan cheese,freshly-grated
- ¼cuppine nuts,toasted, optional
Instructions
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Cook pasta al dente in a large stockpot of generously-salted water, according to package instructions.
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Drain the pasta into a colander, then rinse thoroughly with cold water to stop the cooking process. Drain pasta completely, then return it to the stockpot.
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Add remaining ingredients, and toss until combined.
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Serve immediately, or cover and refrigerate for up to 1 day.
Nutrition
- Calories: 407.65kcal
- Fat: 11.96g
- Saturated Fat: 3.57g
- Trans Fat: 0.06g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 3.91g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 3.08g
- Carbohydrates: 50.16g
- Fiber: 3.51g
- Sugar: 4.65g
- Protein: 24.31g
- Cholesterol: 44.19mg
- Sodium: 169.01mg
- Calcium: 146.65mg
- Potassium: 531.02mg
- Iron: 2.11mg
- Vitamin A: 223.10µg
- Vitamin C: 7.73mg
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