BLT Pasta Salad with Chicken & Ranch Dressing. Now Choose From Multiple Easy Pasta Recipes To Create That Perfect Meal. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Drain, and rinse under cold water to cool.
Combine rotini, bacon, tomato, and green onion.
I recommend waiting until you are ready to serve before mixing in the lettuce.
While I love this salad as-is, you can add other ingredients to the mix to make it more of a main course meal.
You can cook BLT Pasta Salad with Chicken & Ranch Dressing using 19 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of BLT Pasta Salad with Chicken & Ranch Dressing
- It's 200 g of uncooked bow tie pasta.
- Prepare 200 g of cos lettuce leaves, torn.
- Prepare 3 rashers of bacon.
- Prepare 2 of x medium tomatoes, small dice.
- You need 300 g of chicken thigh fillets, into strips.
- It's 2 Tbsp of soy sauce.
- Prepare 1 Tbsp of oyster sauce.
- Prepare 2 tsp of minced garlic.
- Prepare 1 tsp of dried rosemary.
- Prepare of (Ranch dressing ingredients) you will have some leftover.
- You need 1/4 cup of good quality mayonnaise.
- You need 1/2 cup of sour cream.
- It's 1/2 cup of butter milk.
- You need 2 cloves of garlic, minced.
- You need 2 tsp of lemon juice.
- It's 1/2 tsp of cracked black pepper.
- You need 1/2 tsp of ground sea salt.
- You need 1 of & 1/2 tsp dried dill leaves.
- Prepare 1 of & 1/2 Tbsp chopped fresh chives.
Protein: Add diced cooked chicken, shrimp, cubed cheddar cheese or ham for a heartier salad. Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain and rinse under cold water. In a large bowl, combine romaine, chicken, tomato, bacon and pasta.
BLT Pasta Salad with Chicken & Ranch Dressing step by step
- Slice chicken- throw in a bowl with soy & oyster sauces, garlic and rosemary. Allow to marinade while you move onto other elements..
- Turn oven on to 180*C. Lay bacon on a wire rack and bake until crunchy and browned. Allow to cool, chop roughly and set aside..
- Cook pasta as per packet directions until al dente, rinse under cold water, drain and set aside..
- Throw you dressing ingredients into a mixing jug. Mix well with a fork and set aside..
- Now back to the chicken. I had some bacon fat from the baked bacon earlier. Fry in batches until browned and allow to cool..
- Now it's as simple as throwing all the different elements together into a large salad bowl. Top with as much dressing as you desire and tuck in. Simple idea, but of prep but very nice result. Enjoy!.
In a small bowl, whisk mayonnaise, water, barbecue sauce, vinegar and pepper. Pour over salad; toss to coat. Featuring all the fun fixings for a BLT chicken sandwich, this salad is so lovable. I can prep the ingredients ahead of time and just throw it together at the last minute. Barbecue sauce in the dressing gives it unexpected flavor.