Greek Chicken Pasta Salad
This is a beautifully tangy and very colourful chicken pasta salad. You can eat it as a main course by itself, as a side dish at a barbecue or cold the next day.
Ingredients
Serves: 8
- 500g bowtie pasta
- 4 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 cup garlic breadcrumbs
- 500g skinless, boneless chicken breast fillets - cut into bite-size pieces
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1/2 green capsicum, chopped
- 1/2 red capsicum, chopped
- 1/2 yellow capsicum, chopped
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh mushrooms
- 1 cup Greek salad dressing
- 250g cherry tomatoes
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Directions
Preparation:15min ›
Cook:20min ›
Ready in:35min
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil and stir in the pasta. Cook 8 to 10 minutes, until al dente, and drain.
- Heat 3 tablespoons olive oil in a frypan over medium heat. Whisk together the egg and water in a bowl. Place breadcrumbs in a separate bowl. Dip chicken pieces first into the egg mixture then into the breadcrumbs to coat. Place coated chicken pieces in the frypan and cook 5 minutes on each side, or until coating is golden brown and juices run clear. Drain on paper towels.
- Heat remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil in a separate frypan over medium heat. Mix in garlic, onion, green capsicum, red capsicum, yellow capsicum and mushrooms. Cook and stir until vegetables are tender.
- In a large bowl, toss the pasta, chicken and vegetables with the Greek dressing. Serve topped with tomatoes and Parmesan cheese.
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This was excellent! I did make some, minor changes. We are usually trying to cut back on carbs and fat thus I wanted to avoid the breaded coating and frying. I used boneless chicken breasts that had been marinating two days in Good Season's Italian salad dressing mix. I cut in small pieces and sauteed in a little olive oil until cooked through. I also used a lower carb, high protein pasta, Barilla. They didn't have bow ties so I used rotini. We all loved this and though I had increased the amount served to 8 for my family of 5 and a guest, there wasn't a bit left. - 13 May 2008 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
This recipe was wonderful, although I changed the vegetables to fresh tomatoes and zucchini from my garden. Also added homemade greek salad dressing instead of store bought. Great recipe in salad dresings link works wonderfully! - 28 Sep 2005 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
This was awesome. Didn't have Greek salad dressing so used heavy cream...was great!!! - 12 Jan 2006 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)