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I love preparing quick meals for lunch and dinner while keeping fresh and healthy ingredients in our diet. Having a large family, dinner time can be hectic and time consuming. This Italian Grilled Chicken Pasta Salad recipe not only saved time, was able to feed a family of seven but was fresh, healthy and delicious. Everyone was satisfied.
When preparing a pasta salad you can add any fresh vegetables you like. Cucumbers are a family favorite and I enjoy black olives. I can eat black olives on just about anything; sandwiches, pizza, salads.
Ingredients
- Cooked Pasta Noodles – cooled
- Black Olives – diced
- Cucumbers – sliced
- Banana Peppers – chopped
- Tyson® Grilled & Ready® Chicken Strips
- Wish-bone® Italian Dressing
To add protein to our quick dinner, I added Tyson® Grilled & Ready® chicken strips. The Tyson Grilled & Ready Chicken Strips are 100% all natural ingredients and white meat chicken. Plus, it is fully cooked so easy to prepare. This saves me so much time.
While shopping for simple meal solutions at Kroger, I picked up America’s #1 Italian dressing, Wish-bone® Italian Dressing. By adding Wish-bone Italian Dressing to our pasta salad, I was able to provide enough flavor to transform the entire dish – while keeping it well-balanced and healthy.
You can prepare your pasta the night before if you are making the pasta salad for lunch. I like all of our ingredients to be cool except the meat. So I cook the pasta and place it in the refrigerator to cool.
Once your pasta is cool, you can prepare your chicken strips. I left some of the chicken strips whole and diced some of the larger pieces. Since I mixed all the ingredients together, I wanted some smaller chunks of chicken for the kids’ meal.
Slowly pour the Wish-bone Italian Dressing onto your pasta salad. Stir after pouring a little. Remember, you can always add more but can not remove the dressing if you add too much. Make sure your chicken strips have plenty of dressing on them to give some added flavor.
Next toss in your fresh cut veggies. I added banana peppers, black olives and cucumbers. This dish would also be wonderful with cherry tomatoes.
Italian Grilled Chicken Pasta Salad
Serve your Italian Grilled Chicken Pasta Salad with iced tea. This delicious meal took less than 15 minutes to prepare.
How will you use Tyson® Grilled & Ready® Chicken Strips to save time on your dinner?
Oh my goodness, this looks so good! And easy! Definitely going to try this soon, thanks for the recipe 🙂
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This dish looks delicious. I would have to take the olives off, but it seems like something my family would enjoy! [client]
Most of my family had to take off the olives as well. But I just love them.
mmm! this looks so good! never would have thought to make something like this
Yummy! We’ll be having chicken for dinner tomorrow night so I’ll be sure to make extras so we can have this salad on Monday night. Thanks for the recipe – pinned to share and refer back to.
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Looks really tasty, I have been looking for new healthy recipes for the family after our over indulgence during the Christmas period.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful healthy salad at the Thursday Favorite Things blog hop. Watch for your feature tomorrow xo
What a great recipe for lunch or dinner. I love all the ingredients you used! Thanks for sharing at Celebrate It!
What a great salad, it looks delicious. Hope you are having a great day and thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
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This recipe looks so delicious! Hi, I’m Anita visiting Creative Ways Link Party.
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