Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, buffalo chicken pasta salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have buffalo chicken pasta salad using 20 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad:
- Get 8 Oz. boneless chicken meat, 1/2" dice (up to 8 ounces extra would work without changing the marinade and cornstarch mixture
- Get Marinade
- Prepare 3 ounces buttermilk
- Get 3 ounces crystal hot sauce
- Make ready 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- Prepare 1 ounce lemon juice
- Get Corn starch mixture
- Take 1 cup corn starch
- Take 1 tablespoon salt
- Prepare 1 tablespoon white pepper or black is fine
- Take 1 teaspoon cayenne
- Prepare 2 cups oil- vegetable oil is fine
- Prepare 3 ounces crystal hot sauce (See note below.. Hot Sauce Matters)
- Take 3 ounces mayonnaise
- Take 3 ounces blue cheese, crumbled
- Make ready 8 ounces- dry bow tie pasta- cooked per the box instructions
- Make ready 1/2 small red bell pepper or red onion, diced
- Get 1 green onion chopped
- Prepare 1 stalk celery 1 inch julienne cut
- Prepare 2 tablespoon parsley,finely chopped
Steps to make Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad:
- 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.
- (In class we marinate for 45 minutes the longer the better)
- Remove chicken from marinade - drain well
- Mix the cornstarch,salt,white pepper and cayenne. Dredge chicken with seasoned cornstarch mixture and shake off the excess coating.
- 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.
- Fry at 350 F. until golden brown and cooked through. (I check the biggest piece) let cool before adding to the salad.
- Mix all pasta with the chicken, blue cheese, mayonnaise, hot sauce, red bell pepper or red onion, celery,green onion and parsley.
- You can garnish with extra blue cheese crumbles, and chopped parsley.
- 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:)
- 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
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