Pasta Salad with Marinated Chicken & Roasted Peppers

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This new recipe of the week is from my forthcoming book: Top 100 Pasta Recipes. I would love to know what you think - please rate and comment plus you can discuss this recipe in the community forum. It is a lovely combination of sweet roasted peppers and pesto. I prefer to use fresh pesto which you can buy in supermarkets. This would be good for a light lunch , picnic or makes a change from sandwiches in a lunchbox.
 

Annabel's Pasta Salad with Marinated Chicken & Roasted Peppers

 Top 100 Pasta Dishes


  

Ingredients

2 x red peppers sliced in half, seeds removed
2 tsp Dijon mustard
4 tbsp olive oil
3 tbsp rice wine vinegar
1 tbsp green pesto
2 cooked chicken breasts, thinly sliced
2 tbsp chives, chopped
2 tbsp parsley, chopped
Half clove garlic, crushed
150g / 5oz fusilli, cooked and refreshed in cold water
50g/2 oz rocket

 

Method:

Preheat the oven to 200C / Fan 180C/ Gas 6

Place the red peppers cut side down on a baking sheet. Roast in the oven for 20 to 25 minutes until soft and the skins are dark brown.

Remove from the oven. Place in a bowl. Cover with clingfilm and leave to cool.. Remove the skins and slice the flesh into thin strips.

Mix the Dijon mustard, oil, rice wine vinegar and  pesto together in a large bowl. Add the chicken, herbs, garlic and pasta and toss together with the peppers.   

Leave to marinate in the fridge for 1 hour. Scatter a few rocket leaves on the base of a serving plate. Roughly chop the remaining leaves and fold into the salad with some salt and pepper. Spoon onto the serving plate.

Information:
MAKES 4 PORTIONS

Recipe from the forthcoming Top 100 Pasta Recipes

 

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