Greek Chicken Pasta Salad
My daughter and her family will be arriving this Friday for a long awaited visit and my kitchen is working overtime this week getting ready for their arrival. My great-grandson was two months old the last time I saw him and he is now a six month old, very happy and active baby his great-grandma is dying to hold. I’m cooking and baking special recipes I know they enjoy and like to get as much done ahead of time so I have time to relax and enjoy their company.
I’ve posted this Chicken Pasta Salad recipe in the past but I’m making it again and thought it would be a good idea to repost it because it’s such a favorite in my family and so darn good. It makes lots and is great the next day for snacks and lunches. Serve it with grilled pita wedges and hummus.
- SALAD:
- 1 pound boneless chicken breasts
- ⅓ cup olive oil
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- 8 ounces bow tie pasta, cooked al dente
- 8 ounces feta cheese, crumbled
- 3 medium tomatoes, seeded and chopped
- ½ cup kalamata olives, sliced
- ½ cup fresh parsley, chopped
- ¼ cup pine nuts, roasted
- VINAIGRETTE:
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- ¼ teaspoon hot sauce
- 1 tablespoon oregano
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- Mix vinaigrette ingredients together and set aside.
- Marinate chicken for 20 minutes to 2 hours in the olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, oregano, salt and pepper. Remove from marinade and bake 30 minutes at 325 degrees or grill on a hot grill. Cool and shred.
- Combine chicken with remaining salad ingredients. Fold in vinaigrette and serve at room temperature with grilled pita wedges.
We love potatoes in any way, shape or form and this Potato, Walla Walla Onion and Gruyere Galette is at the top of our list. It’s delicious with grilled steaks, salmon, chicken or pork tenderloin and can be made ahead and rewarmed. It goes together easily and always gets plenty of oooh’s and aaah’s when I serve it.
Potato, Walla Walla Onion and Gruyere Galette
Chocolate chip cookies are everybody’s favorite and I want to have plenty on hand for snacks and dessert. David Lebovitz’s recipe is my hands-down favorite cookie recipe and I’m making several batches to get us through the coming week. The dough is formed into logs and wrapped in plastic wrap so I can bake just what we will eat each day and bake up a new batch each morning so they have that “just out of the oven” texture and flavor. My mouth is watering just thinking about these fabulous cookies.
David Lebovitz’s Chocolate Chip Cookies
I hope you will give these recipes a try. They are among my family’s top favorites that they always want when they come home. A week from now we all will be sitting around the table enjoying these dishes and many more that I will share in the next few weeks. Bon Appetit.
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Everything looks perfect! I like that you reposted a good use-it-all-the-time recipe. I think we should bring back the recipes for our new readers. Hate to have them overlook them! The cookies look amazing! Have a wonderful time with your family! Time flies!
Lyndsey ~The Tiny Skillet~ recently posted..Black Bean and Sweet Potato Burgers
The pasta salad and potatoes are right up my alley. My hubby would eat all your choc. chip cookies.
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How fun that your family is coming to visit Cathy. And how smart of you to plan ahead. I’m always in the market for new ways to use chicken in salads, so I’ll be sure to save the salad. Your galette photo is magazine quality.
Sam
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Cathy!
Look at your wonderful new site and that delicious food! How I have missed you. I think I’m all joined up now. I clicked on that thingy, but I’m not sure what that means. I’m a techno klutz.
It’s been a llllllllooooooooonnnnnnnggggg few months, but I’m hoping we have at long last turned a corner where I can see daylight. I have really missed you and my other blogging friends. I’m trying to take this slow, but you know, that’s not me because I want to race around and visit. This old dog has got to learn some new tricks.
Love you…
XO,
Sheila (hope you are going to have fun with your daughter!)
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Goodness gracious what amazing photos of delicious food Cathy……I particularly love the potatoes!
Enjoy your daughter and her family. A very special time for you all………memories to made and cherished.
Karen
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All of this sounds delicious! I love the pasta salad flavors. Yum!
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Oh yum! Best pasta salad EVER!!!!! And your walla walla sandwich looks heavenly!!! 3 days!!!
How I wish I can join you for this. They look as scrumptious as always.
Kristy
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Hi Cathy,
My blog roll says you have not updated in a month. I got to wondering about you, and came on over to check. My blog roll is a liar! I am getting a bit fed up with Blogger! You are cooking some mighty yummy looking stuff over here!!!!!!
: ) Kris
Yum! I know you’ll have a blast with your family. It’s a wonder why they don’t take up permanent residence with all of your good food! Great idea for those cookies. What a treat to have freshly baked cookies every day!
Karen recently posted..Herbed-Baked Eggs
Oh Cathy… the pasta salad, the potatoes, and the cookies all have me drooling! Have fun with your family.
Pam recently posted..Three Olive Tapenade
Guess what we going to have for dinner – and the Potatoe Galette on the menu for tomorrow! The cookes llok scrumptious, not sure if I can trust myself to make those…maybe just a batch..
Thank for sharing all the great recipes Cathy;
Mimi
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How special these people will feel when you feed them all these WONDERFUL sounding foods! I am anxious to try each & every one of them, Cathy.
I was planning on making the Southern Living choc. chip cookies for DH’s golf group but now you’ve convinced me to do your/David’s recipe instead.
That pasta salad is calling my name right now. I can almost taste it, with all those delicious ingredients. Yummo!!
Thank you for sharing your pretty photos AND the recipes to go along with them. I’ll let you know when I make each one.
Get lots of great-grandbaby hugs & smooches!!!
fondly,
Rett
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Lucky guests;) So much yummy food.I wouldn’t mind sitting on your table;)
The chicken pasta salad looks wonderful! Your fam will enjoy everything. Yummy! Have a fun visit!
~Judy
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Enjoy having your chicks in the nest…all of the food looks wonderful!
Have fun Cathy!
L~xo
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Hey, Cathy!
The photo of your chicken pasta salad has me craving it now! It sounds (and of course looks) divine! And your potato gallette has me eager to try something I have never had before:) Finally, I just can’t bring myself to talk about the cookies …there are no words to describe a perfect cookie!
Have a wonderful time with your daughter and her family; hope the weather stays great for their visit!
Blessings,
Aimee
Enjoy! Enjoy! Enjoy! And I’m sure the family will do the same.
Best,
Bonnie
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This looks delicious. I love a pasta salad with chicken because it’s basically a whole meal. This is so different and I am already craving it – yum!
Becki@Becki’s Whole Life recently posted..Peanut Butter Pie
Looks like a great meal to lay on your kids – I know I’d sure like it.
Larry recently posted..Pepper Day At Almost Heaven South
what a gorgeous salad, i love it, especially the bowties! enjoy time with your family!
teresa recently posted..6 Years Old
All of your photos make me want to run to the kitchen and start cooking. Just delicious looking.
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Have a wonderful time with your special guests. The food looks amazing as usual and I am sure they will love it because you made it just for them.
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I’ll have to remember this post:) Taht galette..Oh lala..
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Everything looks so delicious and I must try that potato dish! I hope you have or are having a wonderful visit with your family
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Love these recipes, Cathy! I have been making lots of Greek style dishes due to an over-purchase of feta cheese when my daughter visited last month. (what a fun and frenzied month of planning menus – I love it!) Can’t wait to try the Greek pasta and that beautiful galette. Have fun!
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