This pasta salad is a colorful and flavorful combination of angel hair pasta, shrimp, chicken, and lots of chopped vegetables. Feel free to switch out any vegetables you’d like. There are many other vegetables that would be excellent in this salad. Try it with chopped or sliced celery, cucumber, radishes, grape tomatoes, or diced avocado. For tangier dressing, add extra lemon juice or add more mayonnaise if you like a creamier dressing.
This is an excellent salad to take along to a potluck event or neighborhood cookout. It’s hearty enough to be a main dish salad as well, and perfect for a hot summer evening.
You might also like this hearty macaroni salad with ham or this colorful rotini pasta salad.
Chicken and Shrimp Pasta Salad
This tantalizing chicken and shrimp pasta salad doesn’t skimp on flavor, and it’s an easy preparation. Take it along to a potluck or cookout.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 4 minutes
- Total Time: 19 minutes
- Yield: 8 servings 1x
- Category: Pasta, Salads, Chicken, Shrimp
Ingredients
- 8 ounces angel hair pasta (capellini)
- 4 green onions (thinly sliced)
- 1 (2.25-ounce) can black olives (sliced)
- 1 red bell pepper (chopped)
- 1 yellow bell pepper (chopped)
- 1/2 green bell pepper (chopped)
- 1 pound cooked shrimp (peeled and deveined)
- 2 chicken breast halves (cooked and coarsely chopped)
Dressing
- 3/4 teaspoon dried leaf oregano
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- Salt (to taste)
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 4 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Instructions
- Cook the angel hair pasta in boiling salted water following the package directions; drain in a colander and let cool. For fast cooling, run cold water over the pasta.
- Transfer the drained and cooled pasta to a large bowl; add the green onions, bell peppers, black olives, shrimp, and chopped chicken.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the dressing ingredients; pour over salad.
- Refrigerate the salad until thoroughly chilled. The flavor is best when it is chilled for a few hours or overnight.
- Serve the pasta salad on spinach or romaine lettuce leaves with slices of avocado or tomatoes.
