If you don’t know what to eat but you want something simple, tasty and healthy at the same time, take a look at this recipe for cold pasta salad with chicken and apple that offers you this time because it brings together all those qualities and more! Because it is delicious!
Cold pasta salads are very easy to make and can also be combined with a lot of ingredients, so everyone can make it to their liking. In this case I have added chicken and apple but perhaps you would like to try a pasta salad with apple and walnuts for example. If so, just substitute the ingredients and you’re good to go.
I encourage you to continue reading this step by step so that you learn to prepare this pasta salad with apple and chicken worthy of the best of restaurants without any complications and with a very easy and fast preparation.
Ingredients to make Cold Pasta Salad with Chicken and Apple:
- 150 grams of colored spirals
- 1 handful of clean Canons
- 200 grams of filleted chicken breast
- 1 avocado
- 1 apple
- 1 Cucumber
- 1 Carrot
- 4 canned bell peppers
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 pinch of ground black pepper
- 1 pinch of Turmeric
- 1 splash of extra virgin olive oil
- 1 splash of lemon juice
How to make Cold Apple Chicken Pasta Salad:
We will start by preparing this cold pasta salad with chicken and apple by cooking the colored spirals in a pot with plenty of boiling water and a pinch of salt for about 8-10 minutes. Once the pasta is cooked, drain it, rinse with cold water, drain again and reserve. You can use any other type of short pasta for this cold chicken pasta salad. While the pasta is cooking, we fry the filleted chicken breasts in a frying pan with a dash of oil, previously seasoned, and I have also added a little turmeric to make them tastier and more yellow, but you don’t need to add it if you don’t like it, or you can even put other spices.
You can add more chicken to the cold pasta salad but keep in mind that we are going to add a lot of other ingredients later. Meanwhile, peel and cut the cucumber into cubes and the carrot in half and into slices. Next, we drain the canned bell peppers and chop them into small squares as well.
I want to remind you that all the ingredients with which I have made this pasta salad with apple and chicken are options and to the taste of the consumer, so you can always substitute them for the ones you like the most.
Next, we peel and cut the avocado into half-moons and the apple into cubes but without peeling it, because my skin doesn’t bother me when I eat this pasta salad with chicken breast and it also adds much more fiber to the dish.
Trick: We cut these fruits last because they are the ones that tend to oxidize more easily, but we can avoid that oxidation a little more if we sprinkle a little lemon juice over them while we reserve them for later. When the chicken breast is well fried, we also cut it into pieces to our liking. Finally, in a salad bowl we place a base of clean lamb’s lettuce (I bought a bag where they already eat like this) and on top we add all the vegetables and fruits that we have cut together with the colored spirals, stir well, season with a pinch of salt, olive oil and lemon juice or anything else like balsamic vinegar (that’s up to the consumer). And ready! Now we can taste this rich and healthy cold pasta salad with chicken and apple.
