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    Chicken Pasta Salad

    BY: Courtney PUBLISHED: Sep 6, 2018 7 Comments UPDATED ON: Mar 10, 2022

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    This Chicken Pasta salad is full of flavor and easy to make! Make for potlucks, parties, or even to go with lunch and dinner. Post sponsored by Mirum. Opinions are 100% my own.

    chicken pasta salad

    We love making foods that the whole family will enjoy and that we can easily make for others too! This cold chicken pasta salad is affordable to make and it’s filling too!

    cold chicken pasta salad

    Whenever we have big potlucks in our community I like making a big batch of my chicken pasta salad recipe. It’s a simple pasta salad with chicken that you can easily whip up the night before or even the morning of the get together.

    chicken pasta salad recipe

    Chicken Pasta Salad Ingredients:

    • 1lb rotini pasta
    • 2 chicken breasts (I use my oven baked chicken breasts)
    • 2 stalks celery
    • 4 hard boiled eggs (try our steamed hard boiled eggs method)
    • 1/8 cup chopped red onion (can omit if you don’t like onion)
    • 1/8 cup chopped parsley
    • 3/4-1 cup Hellmann’s Mayo
    • 1/2 cup whole milk
    • 1 lemon, juiced
    • salt + pepper to taste

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    How to make Chicken Pasta Salad

    Place cooked rotini pasta into a large bowl.

    chicken pasta salad recipe

    Chop up the chicken, celery, onions, parsley, eggs, and then add to the pasta.

    chicken and pasta salad

    Make the mayo dressing, combine the mayo, milk, lemon juice, and salt and pepper.

    chicken pasta salad with mayo

    Pour the dressing mix over the pasta.

    pasta salad with chicken

    Toss to combine and adjust salt and pepper to taste if needed. Store this chicken pasta salad in the fridge until ready to serve, always keep pasta salads with mayo cold.

    rotini pasta pasta salad

    more pasta salad recipes:

    • Deviled Egg Pasta Salad
    • Tri Color Pasta Salad
    • Tuna Macaroni Salad

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    chicken pasta salad

    Chicken Pasta Salad

    Author: Courtney
    This Chicken Pasta salad is full of flavor and easy to make! Make for potlucks, parties, or even to go with lunch and dinner. 
    5 from 20 votes

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    Course: Side Dish
    Cuisine: American
    Keyword: chicken breast, pasta salad
    Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 2 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 12 minutes minutes
    Servings: 12
    Calories: 288kcal

    Ingredients

    • 1 lb rotini pasta cooked
    • 2 chicken breast (boneless skinless fully cooked
    • 2 stalks celery
    • 4 eggs hard boiled
    • 1/8 cup red onion chopped
    • 1/8 cup parsley chopped
    • 3/4-1 cup Hellmann's mayo
    • 1/2 cup whole milk
    • 1 lemon juiced
    • salt + pepper to taste
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    Instructions

    • Place cooked rotini pasta into a large bowl.
    • Chop up the chicken, celery, onions, parsley, eggs, and then add to the pasta.
    • Make the mayo dressing, combine the mayo, milk, lemon juice, and salt and pepper.
    • Pour the dressing mix over the pasta.
    • Toss to combine and adjust salt and pepper to taste if needed.

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    Notes

    Place cooked rotini pasta into a large bowl. Chop up the chicken, celery, onions, parsley, eggs, and then add to the pasta. Make the mayo dressing, combine the mayo, milk, lemon juice, and salt and pepper. Pour the dressing mix over the pasta. Toss to combine and adjust salt and pepper to taste if needed.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 288kcal | Carbohydrates: 30g | Protein: 11g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 73mg | Sodium: 144mg | Potassium: 220mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 195IU | Vitamin C: 6.2mg | Calcium: 36mg | Iron: 0.9mg

    The nutritional information is automatically calculated and can vary based ingredients and products used. If the nutrition numbers are important for you we recommend calculating them yourself.

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    POSTED IN: Chicken Recipes Pasta Recipes Side Dishes

    About Courtney

    Family, Food, and Photography are Courtney's passions and you'll see all of that on this blog. She is happily married to her husband Chris and together they have two amazing kiddos!

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    Comments

    1. Laura

      August 10, 2021 at 5:58 pm

      Really good! I made more sauce than the recipe called for because that’s my preference, and I added cherry tomatoes. It’s very versatile and can easily be adapted to what you like. I would definitely make this again.

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      • Courtney

        August 14, 2021 at 5:12 pm

        We’re so glad you enjoyed it! Love the addition of the cherry tomatoes too 😀

    2. Tori katro

      May 13, 2024 at 4:17 pm

      Oh my gosh! This was so delicious.its going to be my new go to for summer. I added peas, whole black olives and some ranch. Family loved it 😊

      Reply
    3. Heather

      August 07, 2024 at 8:45 pm

      Good basic salad. Added a dollop of Dijon, also used some good ranch dressing to equal a cup with mayo.

      Reply
      • Courtney

        August 08, 2024 at 6:32 am

        We’re so glad you enjoyed!! 🙂 Love the addition of dijon!

    4. HPF

      January 25, 2025 at 4:08 pm

      Does anyone have a good substitute for whole milk for a family that is highly lactose intolerant?

      Reply
      • Courtney

        January 26, 2025 at 7:22 am

        Hello, I did send you a quick email so I hope that you received it. We manage a dairy allergy in our home and have no issues using Oatly full fat for this recipe. 🙂

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