This Summery Chicken Pasta Salad with Grapes is the perfect dish for cookouts, hot summer nights, easy lunches or any day you want something quick and wonderful
What I love about this recipe is it is so easy and very different from your usual pasta salad. It is very lemony so the red grapes are needed to balance it out. There is nothing better on a hot summer night then this. It is so cool and satisfying. This summery pasta salad is the perfect one dish meal for any occasion. A pasta salad this easy is something you need in the rotation. Get a rotisserie chicken, break it apart, add it to your favorite pasta with chopped spinach and chopped grapes along with the wonderful dressing in the recipe below and you are good to go. A warm summer night just calls for this cool and satisfying Summery Chicken Pasta Salad with Grapes/
My good friend Pam has always made this summery pasta salad and I finally convinced her to share the recipe with me. So she will get full credit for her culinary prowess.
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Charles Bowden
Summery Chicken Pasta Salad with Red Grapes
Ingredients
- 1 12 oz box Pasta Bowties or Rotini work well
- 3 cups Cooked Chicken Breast rotisserie chicken works great here
- 3 cups red grapes sliced in half
- 3 cups Baby Spinach coarsely chopped
- Zest of 2 lemons
- 1/2 cup Fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 cup Olive oil
- 1/2 cup Red wine vinegar
- 1.5 tsp garlic powder
- 1.5 tsp onion powder
- 1 tbsp honey
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Cook the pasta as directed and rinse under cool water.
- When the pasta is cooled, add the chicken, grapes, and chopped spinach
- For the dressing. Mix lemon juice, zest, olive oil, red wine vinegar and spices.
- Mix the dressing well. Add to the dry ingredients and mix well.
- Refrigerate for about a half hour and enjoy.
In another big pot add the chicken broth, chicken (if you don’t have leftover chicken for the soup, you can leave it out or add a raw boneless chicken breast and poach it in the broth until its done, then remove it, shred it and then add it back) and spices. Bring to a boil, simmer for 10 minutes and then add the spinach. It will seem like too much but it wilts down to nothing. Simmer for a few more minutes. Put the tortellini in a bowl and spoon the soup over the tortellini. Top with a little Parmesan cheese and serve with some crusty bread.
