Mimi's Cookbook

Favorite Pasta Salad

Ingredients

Instructions

  • 16 oz. Spiral pasta
  • 2 - 3 cups cooked, chopped chicken breast
  • 1/2 cup chopped onion
  • 1 cup chopped celery
  • 8 oz whole salted almonds or to taste
  • 6 oz dried cherries or to taste
  • salt/pepper
  • 1/2 c. mayo
  • 12 oz poppy seed dressing
Cook pasta and cool. Add chicken, onion, celery, almonds and cherries. Add just enough poppy seed dressing to moisten. Add mayo. Let sit for 1 hour. May need to add more poppy seed dressing before serving to keep moist.

Can be made the day ahead. Leave out almonds and cherries and add those the next day.



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