🥗 Homemade Caesar Pasta Salad

Caesar salad pasta in large bowl on deck table, ready to serve

🥗 Homemade Caesar Pasta Salad

Our Homemade Caesar Pasta Salad is crispy fresh, full of flavor and the perfect classic summer salad. Rotisserie chicken amplifies the flavor and our homemade Caesar dressing brings everything to life!

Course Dinner, Lunch, Main Course, Salad, Side Dish

Cuisine Americanized Mexican

Total Time 20

Servings

Calories 418.1kcal

Author Marcie & Julie

Ingredients

1 lb corkscrew pasta fusilli or rotini
1+ cup rotisserie chicken pulled apart roughly into pieces and strips
1 cup croutons
8-10 cherry tomatoes halved
1/4 - 1/3 cup shaved parmesan
3/4 cup Caesar dressing
1-2 Romaine lettuce hearts chopped
freshly ground black pepper to taste

Instructions

Cook your pasta according to package instructions. When it's done, pour pasta into a sink strainer and rinse well with cold water. Meanwhile, gather salad ingredients and, if you're going homemade, make your Caesar dressing.
In a large bowl, toss together cooked pasta, chicken, croutons, tomatoes, cheese, and dressing. Add Romaine and pepper, and toss again!

Notes

Subs:

Pasta options: fusilli, rotini, bowtie, rotelle
Rotisserie chicken ↔ any chicken, shrimp, steak
Croutons: any kind, not just "Caesar"
Cherry tomatoes ↔ grape tomatoes
Shaved parm ↔ grated parm
Romaine ↔ spinach, arugula, baby spring mix, iceberg

Tips:

Servings note: this recipe serves roughly 8 people, as a side dish (or if kids are eating). As a main course, it serves closer to 6 people.
Buy a rotisserie chicken for this pasta salad. Take it apart right away, while it's warm. Separate out 1-2 cups for this recipe and refrigerate the rest for sandwiches, snacks and ready ingredient for other dishes.
Rinse pasta in cold water after cooking. This helps remove surface starch which can make the pasta stick together.
This recipe is not set in stone. You can adjust the amount of any of the ingredients OR just eyeball the amounts, e.g. if you like a more heavily dressed salad, decrease the pasta.

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