Monday, December 22, 2008

Chicken, Bean & Pasta Salad

Ingredients:
1 (15 oz) can corn
1 (15 oz) can kidney beans
1 (15 oz) can garbanzo beans
1 (15 oz) can black beans
1 (12.5 oz) can chunk chicken
8 oz fusilli (spiral) pasta
salt
pepper
extra virgin olive oil

directions:
cook pasta as directed on package. put cooked pasta into large glass bowl. add cans of drained beans/chicken to bowl. salt and pepper to taste. add a few tablespoons of olive oil, or keep one of the cans un-drained and add that, juice and all. combine. serve hot or cold.

variation:
for a bit of heat/spice add a tablespoon (or more to taste) of your favorite hot sauce like tapatio and mix in.

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