Bowtie Chicken Caesar Salad
This Bowtie Chicken Caesar Salad is a great salad for a crowd. A way to bulk up a salad is to add cooked pasta to it! Try this pasta salad and you’ll never go back.
Bowtie Chicken Caesar Salad Recipe
(Originally posted 2010)
My church calling has kept me really busy lately. Every couple of weeks it seems like we have a stake function where we are feeding between 100 and 200 people.
Only four of us make up the stake RS presidency so even though the food assignments are divided, each of us are still making a lot of food!
This past week I was in charge of salad for 150 women.
I remembered a chicken recipe my cousin Amy had sent me a while ago for a salad that fed a crowd so I went searching for it in my emails.
I made it 3 times last week: once for the missionaries, for the RS event, and then I made it for a BBQ.
This Bowtie Caesar Salad has chicken, almonds, croutons, parmesan cheese and a little twist…bowtie pasta. People are always surprised to see it in a green salad.
I like the addition of the pasta in the salad because it adds more substance and you can add more pasta to make the salad stretch. All the measurements are approximate…you can adjust it however you like.
OTHER CHICKEN RECIPES:
- Chicken Caesar Pasta Casserole
- Baked Parmesan Caesar Chicken
- Slow Cooker Cashew Chicken
- Hawaiian Grilled Chicken
- Crock Pot Italian Chicken
- Easy Crockpot Fiesta Chicken
- Crockpot Italian Chicken
- Cheesy Bean Chicken Salsa
Bowtie Chicken Caesar Salad
This Bowtie Chicken Caesar Salad is a great salad for a crowd. A way to bulk up a salad is to add cooked pasta to it!
Ingredients
- 2 bunches Romaine lettuce, chopped
- 1 bag garlic croutons
- 1 bag Almond Accents/ Roasted Garlic Caesar
- 2 Chicken Breasts, cooked and cubed (you can also use rotisserie chicken, cubed)
- 2 cups dry bowtie pasta, cooked
- 4 - 6 oz shredded parmesan cheese
- Caesar Dressing (I like Brianna’s Asiago or Cardini's)
Instructions
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Toss all the above ingredients with Caesar dressing right before serving. Serves 10.
Recipe Notes
Source: Amy Bench
Oh my gosh! This salad is perfection. It is the tastiest. I recommend the Brianna’s Asiago Caesar as well (YUM), but not putting it on the salad at all. If your crowd is small enough, let people put their own dressing on their salads. It will keep the main salad from wilting and make your leftovers fresher.
Thanks for the tips!
Looking forward to making this! Can I use iceberg lettuce and do I let the pasta completely cool down before mixing it together?
Thanks!
I’m going to make this for book club but have 2 questions….one asked by another which was never answered.
1. Is it 2 cups dried pasta and then cooked or 2 cups of cooked pasta?
2. How many does this recipe serve? You have serves 4 at the top and serves 20-25 at the bottom.
Thanks
I’m so sorry! I had my recipes transferred and it looks like some of the info was corrupted. I have fixed it.
1) The recipe calls for 2 cups dry pasta cooked.
2) It serves about 10, give or take.
Really awesome recipe; make my own dressing!
I bet it’s great.