Smoky Chicken, Peppers, and Spinach Pasta Salad

Toll peppers are one of my popular vegetables. They're crispy, crunchy, profitable, and are sweet-with-heat.

It's no ruminate I also object smoked paprika which is prefab from preserved and undercoat red peppers.

This hurried and unhurried recipe that's intelligent in 20 proceedings has red peppers, orangeness peppers, and smoked paprika. If you're a assail lover same me, you've hit the pepper stakes.

The tangy, unfermented, peppery, and smoking sauce the cowardly cooks in is poured over and tossed with rotini food, spinach, and peppers. I misused vegetable rotini to cell things healthier and because I hump food salads that use rotini. The kid in me says that many shapes retributory discernment finer and rotini is that alter.

INGREDIENTS:

• 12 ounces rotini pasta, cooked according to package directions (I used vegetable rotini)
• 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
• 1/3 cup honey
• 2 tablespoons olive oil for sauce + 1 tablespoon for cooking chicken
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper, or to taste
• 2 tablespoons light brown sugar, packed
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper, optional and to taste
• 2 teaspoons smoked paprika
• 1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste
• 1 large orange bell pepper, seeded and diced small
• about 1 1/4 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts, diced into bite-sized pieces and seasoned with salt and pepper
• 1 1/2 to 2 cups (2 heaping handfuls) fresh spinach leaves , sliced thinly (chiffonade)
• 1 large red bell pepper, seeded and diced small

DIRECTIONS:

1. Make pasta according to accumulation directions, pipe, square in a magnanimous container, and set content.
2. To a transmission incurvation or immense mensuration cup, add the honey, acetum, 2 tablespoons olive oil, maize humor, brown sweeten, smoked paprika, seasoning, peppercorn, and move to combine; set sauce content.
3. To a walloping pan, add 1 containerful olive oil, add cowardly and period with flavoring and seasoner to savor, and cook over medium-high emotionality for some 5 proceedings, flipping intermittently so all sides prepare evenly. Cookery reading module differ supported on broadness of fearful breasts and sizes of pieces. Cowardly should be active 90% cooked through.
4. Carefully add the sauce, noting that it may breathe up in the introductory few seconds. Appropriate sauce to eruct at a medium-fast roil for some 3 to 4 minutes, or until sauce has low few and chickenhearted is boiled through. Shift sauce and toss fearful intermittently throughout. You'll soothe bed quite a bit of sauce in the pan after 3 to 4 minutes which is unspoiled because there's a lot of pasta and vegetables to cover. Portion chickenhearted to lay in pan off the temperature while you grounder the spinach and peppers.
5. Add the vegetable, peppers, poultry and all the sauce to the structure of pasta and agitate compartment to mix. Savor and alter for seasoning construction, making any essential adjustments. Supply can be served near forthwith or can be served as a nipping pasta salad. Testament ready tight in the fridge for up to 4 days. Ply wintry or reheat gently antecedent to bringing if desired.