Pesto chicken salad with noodles

Components
  • Half a chicken breast fillet, cooked and cut into cubes.
  • Half a teaspoon of fusili pasta (or another type of short, firm pasta)
  • 6 sweet grape tomatoes
  • Half of a small yellow bell pepper
  • Half a tea cup of sliced radicchio
  • Half a teaspoon of fresh basil
  • 1⁄4 cup of unsalted roasted cashew nuts
  • One garlic clove
  • 3 tablespoons of shredded parmesan cheese
  • 1/4 cup of olive oil
  • One ice cube
  • Add salt and ground pepper as desired.
Ready state
  1. Place a small pot of water over high heat. Once it reaches a boil, add half a tablespoon of salt and the noodles. Stir and allow them to cook. Turn off the heat one minute before the time specified on the package. Drain the noodles using a colander and let them cool.
  1. As the noodles are cooking, get the other ingredients ready: rinse and dry the basil, radicchio, tomato, and pepper; peel the garlic clove; halve the tomatoes; remove the seeds and chop the pepper into medium-sized cubes.
  2. Heat a bistequeira (or frying pan), ideally non-stick, over medium heat. Brush the tomato and pepper pieces with olive oil and place them in the bistequeira. Cook for approximately 3 minutes. Use tongs to turn and grill them evenly. Move to a plate and season with salt and ground pepper.
  3. In the blender, make the pesto sauce by combining basil leaves, cashew nuts, parmesan cheese, garlic, and olive oil. Add ice and blend thoroughly until finely chopped.
  4. To prepare the salad in the glass jar, layer the ingredients in this sequence: pesto sauce, noodles, diced tomatoes and peppers, chicken cubes, and radicchio. Seal the jar and refrigerate. When ready to eat, stir to combine the sauce (or pour onto a plate).
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