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Your favorite Healthy Buffalo Chicken Pasta made lighter and ready in 30 minutes, using Mazola® Corn Oil, pasta, shredded chicken, cauliflower and buffalo sauce. This light healthy buffalo chicken pasta is perfect for hectic weeknights, lazy brunches or just a date for two.
Calling all pasta lovers, as this dreamy Healthy Buffalo Chicken Pasta will change the way you think of pasta, turning this comfort food essential into an every week trend. Yup, we are making it into a healthy creamy buffalo chicken pasta.
As many of you know, September is National Cholesterol Awareness month, and as always, I’m here with a ‘better-for-you’ recipe that tastes equally good – I promise.A clinical study showed Mazola® Corn Oil reduces cholesterol 2x more than extra virgin olive oil.
To learn more about this claim, see Mazola.com. Mazola Corn Oil is an all-purpose, cholesterol-free cooking oil that is a smart heart-healthy* choice for your family. *See Mazola.com for more information on the relationship between corn oil and heart health.
Pasta is one of our favorite comfort foods, and I’m always looking at ways to incorporate more of it without heavy ingredients like cream, cheese, and butter.
So on this quest, I finally came up with a Perfect recipe to not only enjoy a creamy pasta more often but without guilt (right, that’s the magic).
What I did was replace three heavy ingredients with better-for-you swaps:
You are not limited to these three. You can also replace regular pasta with gluten-free or high-protein pasta too. Also, don’t tell the kids there is a vegetable in this… (shhhhh).
Seriously, it was that simple to switch, and now we have this dish at least once every two weeks, rather than once every 3-4 months. So let’s go ahead and glance at our ingredients.
how to make healthy buffalo chicken pasta
Now, you see why I said it’s perfect for a hectic weeknight?
Super easy to make, and if you have pre-cooked pasta and shredded chicken, then the recipe is done even quicker.
Once our Creamy Buffalo Chicken Pasta is baked, I like to sprinkle some sort of green garnish on top to make it look fresh.
I usually add green onions here, but you can use cilantro or even skip this step.
Mazola Corn Oil is an all-purpose, cholesterol-free cooking oil that is a smart heart-healthy* choice for your family. *See Mazola.com for more information on the relationship between corn oil and heart health.
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Your favorite Healthy Buffalo Chicken Pasta made lighter and ready in 30 minutes, using pasta, shredded chicken, cauliflower and buffalo sauce. This healthy buffalo chicken pasta is perfect for hectic weeknights, lazy brunches or just a date for two.
Make the pasta as per instructions on the package. Once the pasta is cooked, keep it aside.
7 Replies to "Healthy Buffalo Chicken Pasta - Light Recipe using Cauliflower"
Dick L. October 13, 2019 (12:40 am)
Tried this tonight, and it turned out well. I have celiac disease, so I adapted it to be gluten-free– easy given that the only gluten-containing items in the recipe were the pasta, a bit of flour, and the bread crumbs. The recipe didn’t specify how much chicken to use or when to add it to the recipe, but from the video, I guessed on the amount of chicken and added it according to the video. I didn’t have any Buffalo sauce, so I used the thoughtfully provided recipe to make some. Since my container of GF pasta was the usual 12 ounces, I cut the recipe quantities down to 3/4 of the original amounts. Then, looking at the pasta, I cut the pasta down to 8 ounces, because it looked like a lot of pasta; I think this worked out well. The video shows some cheese being added, along with the chicken, to the mixture, but it wasn’t specified in the ingredients or instructions and I had forgotten the video by that time, so I only used cheese in the topping. I used shredded mozzarella and grated Romano along with the bread crumbs for the topping.
And it was good. Very good. (My wife even liked it.) I’ll be making this one again. It reminds me of mac and cheese, but with more flavor. Thanks for posting it.
Molly Kumar October 19, 2019 (10:59 pm)
Hello Dick L, thanks for your message and I’m so glad you made the recipe and enjoyed it too 🙂 It does taste like a Gourmet version of Mac n Cheese – Thanks, Molly
Bhawana September 18, 2019 (12:30 am)
this chicken pasta looks fabulous, love the texture. You have beautiful clicks.
Amanda September 17, 2019 (12:06 pm)
I absolutely love this. Buffalo chicken is my favorite, so a pasta version is just mind blowingly good!
GUNJAN C Dudani September 16, 2019 (5:22 pm)
We are big pasta eaters and this creamy pasta with buffalo chicken suits absolutely perfectly to our palate.
Marie September 16, 2019 (3:05 pm)
This chicken pasta looks so hearty and delicious. I like that it’s lower in cholesterol by using Mazola corn oil. What a great tip! It’s such a great meal option to whip up on a busy weeknight.
Molly Kumar September 16, 2019 (4:54 pm)
Hi Marie, so glad you liked the recipe and it’s super yummm 🙂 Thanks, Molly