Cilantro Avocado Pasta & Chicken Salad

Step 1: Prep the pasta & the chicken

  • Pasta salad components

    • dried macaroni noodles
      227 g1/2 lb
    • chicken
      , cooked
      227 g1/2 lb

Add your pasta to a pot of , salted water. Overcook the pasta by 3 or 4 minutes more than the package instructions indicate. This way, the pasta will have the perfect chewiness in the salad, instead of hardening when it cools down.

  • After the pasta is cooked, drain it and spread it out on a baking sheet to cool.

Take your cooked chicken (whether poached, baked, or grilled) and dice it into bite-sized pieces.

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