Chicken, Sun-dried Tomato & Creamy Balsamic Pasta Salad
This Chicken, Sun-Dried Tomato, and Creamy Balsamic Pasta Salad is the perfect blend of creaminess, umami, and freshness. With tender pasta, zesty sun-dried tomatoes, bocconcini, crunchy pine nuts, delicious chicken, and the creamy balsamic dressing, this salad is packed with delicious flavor. It's a great make ahead salad that takes less than 15 minutes to prepare.
Servings: 6
Ingredients
- 8 oz fusilli pasta or gluten or grain free pasta of choice
- 2 tsp salt
- ⅓ cup thinly sliced red onion
- ½ cup roughly chopped oil packed sun dried tomatoes
- ⅓ cup toasted pine nuts
- 2 cups chopped cooked chicken
- 2 cups roughly chopped fresh spinach
- 1 cup halved bocconcini
Creamy Balsamic Dressing
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- ⅓ cup extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp pepper
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add in the fusilli and cook according to the package instructions. Once tender, drain in a colander and run under cold water.
- While the pasta is cooking, make the dressing. In a bowl whisk together the dressing ingredients. Taste and adjust ingredients as desired.
- Add the cooked pasta to a large salad bowl. Add in the red onion, sundried tomatoes, pine nuts, chicken, spinach and bocconini.
- Pour the dressing over the salad and toss.