HEALTHY CHICKEN PASTA SALAD
Flourishing Volaille Food Salad is a vegetable salad with penne food, grilled weakling, cherry tomatoes, toasted slivered almonds, and a impertinent citrus dressing.
Instead of the exemplary dressing or cream-laden based dressing, this binding is really gentle and citrus-y making this salad so untold better than most food salads. But it's definitely NOT absent on sapidity. If you suchlike lemon and chromatic, you will be controlled with this concoction!
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 heaping cup (4 ounces) miniature penne pasta measured dry
- 4 ounces baby spinach stems removed
- ⅓ cup crumbled feta cheese
- ⅓ cup slivered almonds toasted
- 1 cup prepared chicken leftover marinated and grilled chicken or leftover rotisserie chicken
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes halved
Dressing
- 1 large orange 2 teaspoons zest; 4 tablespoons juice
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 1 large lemon ½ teaspoon zest; 2 tablespoons juice
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard do not use regular
- ½ cup olive oil vegetable oil or canola oil can also be used
- ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
- Optional: freshly cracked pepper, fresh parsley
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Prepare the food according to packet direction. Emptying and then remotion with refrigerating nutrient.
- Locate the cooled pasta in a colossal trough. Add in the spinach and the halved cherry tomatoes.
- Shortly hearty up and then coarsely hack the balance grilled chicken. Add to salad and sky to add.
- Lightly toast the almonds over a skillet on occupation energy until perfumed. Dust the almonds and feta mallow over the salad.
- For the concoction: add all of the ingredients unitedly omit for the oil in a blender. Merge until all ingredients are fit unified. Tardily add in the oil in a fortify stream and produce until composed.
- Sky the salad with the grooming (to sensing; you may not want/need all of it) and revel.
- Exclusive flip what you organisation on uptake as the binding makes the spinach "soggy" for leftovers.
