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The EVERYTHING Pasta Salad Recipe

August 30, 2016 by Jonna

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Nothing says summer like delicious salads! Living in Arizona with the eternal summer, a salad is the best choice for dinner almost any time of the year. Also, being a mom of 4 littles, I love a one-dish meal because it cuts down on the prep and dishes. My entire family LOVES this salad and always comes back for seconds. This pasta salad recipe includes tons of goodies that you wouldn’t normally find in a pasta salad, but make it unbeatable!

Tastiest pasta salad recipe ever! Nothing says summer like delicious salads. My family begs me to make it all the time!

The Everything Pasta Salad Recipe

Salad Ingredients:

  • One box of bowtie pasta boiled till tender (10-12 ounces)
  • 3 chicken breasts cooked and shredded (or two cans of shredded cooked chicken)
  • 3 cans mandarin oranges drained
  • 1 can water chestnuts drained and chopped
  • 1/4c chopped parsley
  • 1/2 bunch chopped green onions
  • 1/2c craisins
  • 1/4c sunflower seeds
  • 1/2c salted caramel peanuts (if you can’t find them, honey roasted peanuts will do)
  • 10oz baby spinach

 

Dressing Ingredients:

  • 1/2c canola Oil
  • 1/4tsp salt
  • 4Tbl sugar
  • 1/3C white wine vinegar
  • 1/2c teriyaki sauce
  • 1/2tsp pepper

 

Directions:

  • Whisk dressing together and set aside.
  • Mix all ingredients (except spinach) and put into a large ziplock bag.
  • Add dressing
  • Marinate the salad overnight, periodically flipping the bag over to re-marinate.
  • When ready to serve, mix spinach into the salad.

Tastiest pasta salad recipe ever! Nothing says summer like delicious salads. My family begs me to make it all the time!

Marinating the salad overnight allows the dressing to soak into the chicken, the pasta, the water chestnuts, EVERYTHING! It is a deliciously light teriyaki dressing that will make you eat multiple servings.

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Other than having to marinate the salad overnight, it is an extremely easy one-dish meal to fix. Perfect when you know the next day will be busy.  And please don’t let that overnight marination keep you from trying the recipe, it is absolutely my favorite salad ever (and I am kind of a salad snob)! There is something for everyone in the salad. My husband loves the chicken in it (he hates it when there are only vegetables in a salad), my kids can’t get enough of the marinated pasta and the mandarin oranges, and I love all the crunchy stuff!

Is there anything you would add to this EVERYTHING Pasta Salad Recipe?

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Filed Under: Easy Recipes Tagged With: Easy Dinner Recipes, Easy Lunch Recipes, Recipes: Healthy

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  1. Shirley Wood says

    September 11, 2016 at 5:25 pm

    Oh my yum! Thanks for sharing with us at Merry Monday. Looks delicious!

  2. Autumn Reo says

    September 6, 2016 at 9:28 pm

    This looks totally up my alley! And you can make it and eat it for days! Lunch time!

  3. Amanda Winter says

    September 6, 2016 at 6:27 pm

    I have an obsession with pasta. This looks so good!

  4. Tracie Cooper says

    September 4, 2016 at 10:59 am

    Our family loves pasta salad and this recipe would be perfect for our next family BBQ!

  5. Sarah says

    September 1, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    I love a good pasta salad recipe! This looks and sounds amazing. Loving all the healthy items in here.

  6. Crystal says

    September 1, 2016 at 8:31 pm

    The weeks are so busy and hectic. I need to make a big batch of your pasta salad, and have it for lunches.

  7. Chelley @ A is For Adelaide says

    September 1, 2016 at 7:49 pm

    This sure is everything! Looks like a great, filling lunch!

  8. Tara says

    September 1, 2016 at 6:10 pm

    The only other things I would add to this salad are cheese and bacon. It sure does look delicious. I love the different textures.

  9. Alicia says

    September 1, 2016 at 5:54 pm

    Interesting combination of flavors. I’ll have to try this. I’m always looking for new salad recipes!

  10. Marcie W. says

    September 1, 2016 at 4:55 pm

    I love a good loaded salad full of deliciousness. It’s cool that you included both pasta and actual greens, to blend together two types of salad.

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