Pesto Pasta Salad

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**since I am making this meal tonight, I thought I would re-post the recipe, enjoy!**
Warning!

This is not a budget friendly meal
nor is it a
diet friendly meal!

However
it is
wickedly delicious!

Pesto Pasta Salad

2 pkgs bow-tie pasta
3 cups mayo
1 cup sour cream
4 pkgs Pesto Mix
8 Tbsp Olive oil
1/2 cup Parmesan Cheese
2 Chicken Breast
1 pkg cherry tomatoes

Cook your pasta

while is it cooking make your sauce

Start with the mayo

ANYTHING that has 3 cups of mayo in it has to be good!

Then the sour cream

Put in your packages of Pesto Mix

I love Pesto
I want to marry it,
(not really.)

Stir it all up really well

so it is creamy and green

Then you add the Olive Oil

use the extra virgin kind

it has a better taste,

don’t skimp with the Olive Oil!

Then in goes the 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese

you can use the pre-grated kind, it tastes the same

I am just GLUTTON for punishment,

I like to do things the hard way and grate my own cheese


Stir it all together, it will be creamy and green

and a little lumpy because of the cheese

I could seriously just eat this sauce!

Pour it over the HOT pasta

it needs to be hot so the mayo, sour cream and cheese melt into it

Cut up your tomatoes into wedges.

If I can find the really little grape tomatoes in the grocery store I use those then I don’t feel the need to cut them up.

Stir them into the warm pasta

Doesn’t the RED look so pretty in the GREEN pasta

Chop your chicken

Hey Chicken!

I think I have seen you here before!

I use two chicken breasts when I am making this for dinner, but when I make this salad as a side I don’t add chicken at all, this salad is expensive enough!


Dump Mr. Chicken breast in

(or would that be MRS Chicken Breast

Do boy chickens have breasts?

I will have to research that… )

Stir it all up and stick it in the refrigerator.

You could serve this salad hot, warm or cold

I like it warmish, it think when it sits a little it helps all the flavors mesh

and it is really good the next day cold.


When I serve it I like to sprinkle a little more cheese on top.

(Dadzoo was very stingy at dinner tonight

he didn’t want the kids to eat too much

he wanted some for lunch the next day!)

This is really yummy

one of my favorites

also Dadzoo’s favorite

and my baby sister Lindi’s favorite.

Enjoy!!!!

15 thoughts on “Pesto Pasta Salad”

  1. This is one of those meals, I won’t let the kids have seconds so I can have some for lunch the next day. 🙂 Guess what I am having for lunch…. He He

  3. That looks sooo yummy! I love pasta salads and i love pesto! I must try it. Thank you!

  5. I remember this was one of the firts posts I read of yours last year. It was great, along with the colorful pics. And I have been back ever since checking in:)

  6. Where do you get the dry pesto mix? I remember this recipe from last year. I wanted to try it and I looked at a couple of stores, but couldn’t find the pesto mix.

  7. Tif, you can find the pesto mix by the dry gravey packages. Usually there is a big display with all the McCormick mixes there. Knorr also makes a dry pesto mix.

  8. Hmmm. I’ll have to look again this year and see if I can find it. Your recipe does look super yummy! Thanks for guiding me in the right direction.

  14. I'm curious, when you're serving any of these salads for dinner, what do you serve with it? Is the salad the main dish? Do you just add bread? What about for those crazy people who think they need a "real meat" in order to call it dinner?