Chicken Garden Salad

This easy to assemble pasta salad is a nice and balanced meal or side dish for summer. It's got a lot of flavor, and you can use some left overs for the main ingredients!
You will need: 

• 2 already cooked chicken breasts
• 1 bell pepper
• 1/2 an onion
• A hand full of cherry tomatoes
• 1/2 cup of mayonnaise
• 1 tsp basil (fresh and chopped or dried) 
• 1 tsp garlic (fresh and chopped or dried)
• About 1/2 a pound of cooked pasta (rotini or shells work best)

If you don't have left overs that you can use for this recipe then you will need to cook the chicken and the pasta. I bought oven cooked chicken that I used for this recipe, but it doesn't matter how the chicken is cooked, as long as it tastes good. Also, I used tri-color rotini,  which I think adds a little extra flavor in this recipe. 

• Dice the already cooked chicken and let the pasta cool. 

• Chop up into tiny squares the onion and pepper and slice your cherry tomatoes in thirds. 

Note: If you love it when you get a scoop of salad and all the ingredients are in that one scoop then be sure that you chop up all of your ingredients small and it cube shape.  

I found it easy to put the ingredients in a big saucepan and mix them in this order. 

• First put the pasta in the bowl, followed by the mayo and mix. 
• Next add the vegetables and the chicken and the spices, then mix. 

Remember this recipe next time you have some left over chicken and pasta :) 

Enjoy!