Cajun chicken pasta salad. Nothing spells summer much more than a good. Chicken dredged in Cajun spices is sauteed with bell peppers and mushrooms, and presented in a basil-cream sauce over linguine. Place the chicken and the Cajun seasoning in a plastic bag.

Series Description: You don't actually have to travel to Louisiana to taste some delicious and authentic Cajun cooking anytime you'd like. Chicken Cajun Pasta Salad = Best Picnic Lunch. Make pasta salad, in a large pot of salted boiling water, cook pasta according to package directions. You can cook Cajun chicken pasta salad using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Cajun chicken pasta salad

1. Prepare of Orecchiette pasta.
2. You need of Cavatapi pasta.
3. You need 1/8 cup of Paul Prudome poultry seasoning at least.
4. You need of Italian dressing.
5. It's of French dressing.
6. Prepare of Bell peppers different colors cut into matchsticks and chunks.
7. It's of Black olives.
8. Prepare of Green onion.
9. Prepare of Yellow onion.
10. It's 3 halves of Chicken breast.
11. It's of The best olive oil you can find.

Drain and rinse with cold water to cool pasta to room temperature. A chicken salad done Louisiana style with a remoulade, Tabasco sauce and a little Cajun spice. Or your belly if you decide to make this Cajun twist on the classic chicken salad. It's easy enough, you can basically prep the ingredients as the chicken is poaching.

Cajun chicken pasta salad step by step

1. Boil pasta al dente drain... set aside.
2. Put oil in skillet (this gets really smokey if you can do this outside do it)Cut chicken breasts into bite sized chunks coat with olive oil...and paul prudome poultry seasoning (coat it well) when the oil in the skillet is smoking (be careful fine line here between smoking and a fire) the coated chicken gets crispy in the high heat (blackened) cook through..
3. Have chopped peppers onion olives chopped and ready.
4. When chicken is done add rest of veggies.
5. Stir for a minute or 2 then add french dressing and Italian dressing let it simmer for a few minutes..
6. Cool off (tastes great warm too).
7. Put cooled pasta salad in fridge overnight.
8. Flavors get better overnight!!!.
9. This can be adjusted to feed a few or alot of people.... use amounts that make sense to you (I know....for you people who measure everything this kinda sucks sorry).

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