Mandarin Chicken Pasta Salad - Pampered Chef
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 16
- Serves:
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12
ingredients
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Dressing
- 1 teaspoon fresh gingerroot, peeled and finely minced
- 1⁄3 cup rice vinegar or 1/3 cup white wine vinegar
- 1⁄4 cup orange juice
- 1⁄4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 (1 1/4 ounce) envelope dry onion soup mix
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1 garlic clove, finely minced
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Salad
- 8 ounces dry bow tie pasta
- 1⁄2 cucumber, scored, seeded and sliced
- 1⁄2 cup red bell pepper, diced
- 1⁄2 cup red onion, coarsely chopped
- 1 (6 ounce) package baby spinach leaves
- 1 (11 ounce) can mandarin orange segments, drained
- 2 cups cooked chicken, diced
- 1⁄2 cup sliced almonds, toasted
directions
- For dressing combine gingerroot, vinegar, orange juice, vegetable oil, sesame oil, soup mix, sugar and garlic; whisk until well blended.
- For salad, cook pasta according to package directions; drain and rinse under cold water. Place pasta in a large serving bowl.
- While pasta is cooking, slice cucumber, dice bell pepper , and chop onion.
- Add cucumber, bell pepper, onion, spinach, mandarin oranges, chicken and almonds to pasta.
- Pour dressing over salad; toss well and serve immediately.
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This is a perfect summer/no cook dinner. Made this for a farewell get together with friends before our move and it was great; even some of the kids ate it! It was nice also that there was not a mayo/creamy dressing so it was okay to serve on the patio poolside. Will be making this again during the hot summer months. Made for My 3 Chefs.
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After graduating from college in spring of 2007, I am now working as a Traffic Engineer. Now that I have free time instead of homework, I've been trying all sorts of new recipes that are more involved.
I am always trying to get healthy food into my husband and 7-year old step-son. I am slowly wearing on them, both of them will finally eat vegetables with every dinner. Both of them like helping in the kitchen, especially on mini pizza nights!
We have a 4-year old male lab/golden retriever mix and when the two "boys" get going, look out!
I participated in my in-law's family Christmas party this year by bringing almond roca. It was a huge hit and everyone wants it again next get-together! I will definately bring it again, but I don't want to give the recipe out to them because it is so easy and I like them thinking I worked by butt off!!
A cooking tragedy I once had in high school: I was making some pesto for my mom and I to have with lunch. At the time, I didn't know the difference between a clove and a bulb of garlic and I ended up putting about half a bulb of garlic in the recipe then stopped because I though "two whole bulbs would be a lot"... the recipe read 2 cloves ... Needless to say, we had bad breath for days and I never forgot what a clove was!!
I haven't tried all of my posted recipes, but if I posted them I thought they sounded good and figured I should give someone else the chance to try them before I get to them.
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