Curry Chicken Pasta Salad

Submitted by WI Cheesehead

"Another great recipe from Penzey's Spices. Prep time includes refrigeration time."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 20mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 8-12

ingredients

• 1 lb chicken breast, diced
• 1 tablespoon sweet curry powder
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice, divided
• 4 quarts water (for boiling pasta)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 lb dry pasta
• 2 cups snap peas, chopped in half
• 1⁄2 cup minced red onion
• 2⁄3 cup low-fat mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon dijon-style mustard

directions

1. Combine curry, oil, and 1 T lemon juice, pour over chicken, toss to coat, cover and refrigerate 1-2 hours.
2. Heat large nonstick skillet over med heat, add chicken.
3. Cook, stirring regularly, about 3 min (or more). Reduce the heat a bit if the sauce starts to darken.
4. Remove the pan from the heat, let cool while the pasta boils.
5. Boil pasta in salt and water, rinse and set aside. For about the final 2 min of cooking time, add the peas, drain and rinse w/rest of pasta.
6. While pasta cooks, prepare the salad dressing. It is important to have dressing done at same time as pasta, so pasta doesn’t sit w/out dressing too long, as it will clump.
7. In a large bowl, blend minced red onion, mayonnaise, mustard and 1 T lemon juice.
8. Add the curried chicken w/all the sauce out of the pan; whisk to blend.
9. Add pasta and peas, toss to coat and add salt if desired.
10. Serve right away or chilled for later. 8-12 servings.

Reviews

[Chef Dudo]

Yes, I liked the salad. Felt that 1lb pasta would be too much for the dressing so I decided to cut the pasta in half and was glad I did. I think the salad would benefit from something fresh and/or crunchy. Maybe some pickles, celery stalk, bell peppers or such. Pleased I tried it. Thanks for posting.

 

[Tekno_Zen]

I first saw this recipe in a Penzy's catalog and have used it over and over ever since. My husband and I were never big curry fans but it's probably because we didn't have a recipe to use it in. We do now, and absolutely love this recipe.

 

[Cheri-Beri]

Exellent!! I didn't want to go to the grocery store so I used what I had on hand. I substituted turkey for the chicken and petite frozen peas for the snap peas. It was fantastic. I will definitely be adding this to my permanent recipe collection.

 

[Midwest Maven]

We really loved this salad. Very creamy and the curry flavor was great! I made it exactly as written except that I forgot to throw the snap peas into the pasta water so I put them in the salad cut in half raw, and it gave it nice crunch:) Thanks for sharing this, it's definitely a keeper.

 

[Engrossed]

This was very good. I especially loved the chicken. I don't normally like snap peas but went with the recipe only cutting them smaller and they gave a great crunch and flavor. Once it was all put together I couldn't really taste the curry so added a tablespoon more (I used Madras curry powder). I used bow-tie pasta. I'd like to try this with more vegetables, like red bell peppers. Thanks for the recipe. Made for Zaar Tag.