Recipe: Appetizing Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad

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Add the chicken, bell peppers, red onion, and cooked pasta and toss to coat with the dressing. Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad Full of buffalo flavors, this buffalo chicken pasta salad is one of my favorite side dishes at potlucks and tailgate parties, but you could also serve it as a main. It can be eaten warm or cold so it's easy to make ahead of time. You can have Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad using 20 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad

1. It's 8 Oz. of boneless chicken meat, 1/2" dice (up to 8 ounces extra would work without changing the marinade and cornstarch mixture.
2. Prepare of Marinade.
3. You need 3 ounces of buttermilk.
4. It's 3 ounces of crystal hot sauce.
5. You need 2 tablespoons of brown sugar.
6. It's 1 ounce of lemon juice.
7. Prepare of Corn starch mixture.
8. Prepare 1 cup of corn starch.
9. You need 1 tablespoon of salt.
10. Prepare 1 tablespoon of white pepper or black is fine.
11. You need 1 teaspoon of cayenne.
12. Prepare 2 cups of oil- vegetable oil is fine.
13. Prepare 3 ounces of crystal hot sauce (See note below.. Hot Sauce Matters).
14. It's 3 ounces of mayonnaise.
15. You need 3 ounces of blue cheese, crumbled.
16. Prepare 8 of ounces- dry bow tie pasta- cooked per the box instructions.
17. You need 1/2 of small red bell pepper or red onion, diced.
18. It's 1 of green onion chopped.
19. You need 1 stalk of celery 1 inch julienne cut.
20. It's 2 tablespoon of parsley,finely chopped.

Stir until smooth, then add to the bowl with the. In a large pot of salted boiling water, cook rigatoni according to package directions until al dente. Drain and transfer to a large bowl. Add chicken, buffalo sauce, ranch, celery, and chives to.

Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad instructions

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2. Mix the buttermilk, hot sauce, brown sugar and lemon juice together until the brown sugar is dissolve then add the diced chicken with the mixture in a zip-lock bag. Marinate chicken for several hours or overnight..
3. (In class we marinate for 45 minutes the longer the better).
4. Remove chicken from marinade - drain well.
5. Mix the cornstarch,salt,white pepper and cayenne. Dredge chicken with seasoned cornstarch mixture and shake off the excess coating..
6. In a deep skillet, heat about two cups of oil(depending on the pan size) over medium-high heat until hot. Test the temperature by dropping a pinch of flour into the hot oil. If it bubbles right away without smoking, it's ready..
7. Fry at 350 F. until golden brown and cooked through. (I check the biggest piece) let cool before adding to the salad..
8. Mix all pasta with the chicken, blue cheese, mayonnaise, hot sauce, red bell pepper or red onion, celery,green onion and parsley..
9. You can garnish with extra blue cheese crumbles, and chopped parsley..
10. Note #1.. Hot sauces very greatly Crystal Hot Sauce and Franks Hot Sauce work well... they are a sweet heat. Tabasco will ruin this recipe. It is just to hot...Great on Oysters not on this Recipe:).
11. Note #2 If you do not want to fry, you can buy popcorn chicken at a grocery store or, KFC, or Popeyes and skip steps 1,2,3,4,5 :p.

Cook pasta according to package instructions. Drain and transfer to a large bowl. Add chicken breast and red pepper and stir to combine. In a separate, medium-sized bowl, whisk together buffalo sauce, ranch dressing, mayonnaise, garlic powder, and black pepper to make a sauce. Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad is the perfect thing to bring to BBQs this summer!