Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad.
You can have Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad using 20 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad
- Prepare 8 Oz. of boneless chicken meat, 1/2" dice (up to 8 ounces extra would work without changing the marinade and cornstarch mixture.
- Prepare of Marinade.
- You need 3 ounces of buttermilk.
- You need 3 ounces of crystal hot sauce.
- It's 2 tablespoons of brown sugar.
- You need 1 ounce of lemon juice.
- It's of Corn starch mixture.
- You need 1 cup of corn starch.
- You need 1 tablespoon of salt.
- You need 1 tablespoon of white pepper or black is fine.
- It's 1 teaspoon of cayenne.
- Prepare 2 cups of oil- vegetable oil is fine.
- It's 3 ounces of crystal hot sauce (See note below.. Hot Sauce Matters).
- You need 3 ounces of mayonnaise.
- Prepare 3 ounces of blue cheese, crumbled.
- You need 8 of ounces- dry bow tie pasta- cooked per the box instructions.
- Prepare 1/2 of small red bell pepper or red onion, diced.
- Prepare 1 of green onion chopped.
- It's 1 stalk of celery 1 inch julienne cut.
- Prepare 2 tablespoon of parsley,finely chopped.
Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad step by step
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- 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.