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A large white pasta bowl filled with cold chicken pasta salad. The salad has rotini, cut up chicken,sausage, peppers, grapes, all drizzled with a creamy homemade dressing.
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Creamy Pasta Salad with Chicken

A easy summer pasta sald with chicken, rotini, chorizo and a creamy salad dressing. So easy to make and you can leftover chicken or a rotisserie chicken to make it even easier.
Course Main Course
Cuisine American, Canadian
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings 4 People
Cost $10

Ingredients

Chicken Salad Ingredients

  • 2 cups cooked chicken cut in small cubes
  • 6 cups cooked rotini pasta
  • 4 oz chorizo sausage chopped fine
  • ½ cup cheddar cheese cut in small cubes
  • 1 1/2 cups green grapes cut in half for children
  • 1 red pepper chopped in small pieces
  • 3 green onions sliced
  • 2 stalks celery finely chopped

Creamy Salad Dressing

  • ½ cup sour cream or plain yogurt
  • ½ cup real mayonaise
  • 1 ½ tsp dijon mustard
  • 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp dill weed
  • pepper to taste

Instructions

Preparation

  • Boil 3 cups of rotini in a large pot of boiling water boil about 7 minutes stirring occasionally, until done. Rinse, drain, let cool.
    A collage of the different pasta salad recipe ingredients being prepared for the salad. There is chorizo, green onions, red peppers, cold chicken, cheddar cheese, green grapes, celery and rotini.
  • Cut up cooked chicken into small cubes.
  • Wash the grapes, red pepper, green onions, and celery.
  • Half the green grapes if needed. Cut up the chorizo cheddar, red pepper, green onions and celery. Set aside.

Creamy Salad Dressing

  • In a small bowl mix together all the salad dressing ingredients. Whip together well. Add salt and pepper to taste.
    A close up of a main dish chicken pasta salad recipe, with lots of colours, red peppers, green celery and grapes, white rotini pasta and chicken. The salad is then drizzled with creamy dill dressing.

Making the Salad

  • In a large bowl add the chicken, rotini, chorizo, cheddar cheese, grapes and vegetables. Toss.
  • Drizzle the dressing over the pasta salad, toss to coat. Place in fridge to chill.

Storing Chicken Pasta Salad

  • As this simple pasta salad contains chicken it lasts 2-3 days when stored in an air tight container in the fridge.