Recipe by Nitra Ladies Auxiliary

Chicken-Pasta Salad with Acorn Squash and Roasted Veggies

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Easy Easy
10 Servings
Allergens

Contains

- Gluten - Wheat
1 Hour, 10 Minutes
Diets

No Diets specified

This is a meal in one! Pasta spirals, or fusilii, are tossed with roasted vegetables and served with roasted acorn squash and grilled chicken fingers.

Ingredients

Salad

  • 2 acorn squash

  • 1 package Tuscanini Fusilli Pasta or other (tri color) pasta, cooked according to package directions

  • 1 large onion, diced

  • 1/3 cup oil

  • 2 red peppers

  • 1 green pepper

  • 1 yellow pepper

  • 2 small zucchini, unpeeled

  • 2 chicken cutlets

Marinade


Wine Pairing

Tabor Adama Roussanne

Directions

Prepare the Acorn Bell Squash

1.

Cut each squash to five- and 3/4-inch slices. Remove seeds and stringy fibres.

2.

Dip each slice into oil and sprinkle sugar. Place into baking pan.

3.

Bake, covered, at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 45 minutes.

Prepare the Vegetables

1.

In a nine-inch frying pan, sautee onions in oil until limp.

2.

Dice all peppers and sautee for five minutes.

3.

Dice zucchini and add to peppers. Sautee for 20 minutes.

4.

Combine vegetables with prepared pasta.

Prepare the Chicken

1.

Cut chicken cutlets to two- and- 3/4-inch strips.

2.

Mix ingredients for marinade. Marinade chicken strips for 20 minutes.

3.

Grill or pan broil for five minutes on each side.

To Serve

1.

Place squash in the center of the plate. Spoon vegetables and pasta over squash. Top with two chicken strips.

Credits

Photography and Styling by Peri Photography

Chicken-Pasta Salad with Acorn Squash and Roasted Veggies

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Marian Bromberg
Marian Bromberg
3 years ago

Missing ingredient Where is the sugar in the list of ingredients?
You should have mentioned to cut the squash in rounds, so it will come out like the picture.

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Sooymous
Sooymous
Reply to  Marian Bromberg
3 years ago

It says to cut the squash in slices and acorn squash is round! Duh!

Raquel
Raquel
Reply to  Sooymous
3 years ago

The sugar is ‘to taste’ depending on how sweet you like your squash.

Marian Bromberg
Marian Bromberg
3 years ago

In the directions it says to sprinkle sugar on the squash, but there is no sugar in the list of ingredients. Also, there is no place where it says that the squash should be cut in circular strips, even though the picture shows that.