Easy Chicken Pasta
Here comes a recipe for Chicken Pasta, a very easy and quick and yummy recipe for dinner or even to pack your lunch. Try this out and let me know how it went for you. I'm sure you would like this recipe as it has very few spices and it is not at all spicy and hence it would be a superhit for those of you who like non-spicy food and also for kids and they would keep asking for more. The chicken breast is cooked with few spices and is cut into cubes which are later added to the cooked pasta. The chicken breast is cooked as such without cutting into pieces, by doing so the pieces would be soft and easy to chew for kids. But, if you like to cut into pieces, you would not have to cook for 30 mins, so just make sure you cook until it is well cooked and not turn rubbery and hard at its edges. Cook the pasta as per the instruction given in the box. Also, as in any other pasta recipes, you could cook the pasta in advance and refrigerate it and use the required amount as the recipe calls. The cheese added could be as per your wish, you could totally skip it or increase the amount as per your liking.
Ingredients
To cook chicken
- 250 gms Chicken Breast
- ½ tsp Garlic powder
- ¼ tsp Ginger powder
- 1 tsp Chili powder
- ¼ tsp Pepper powder
- Salt to taste
- 1 tbsp Butter
- ¼ cup Warm water
For the pasta
- 2½ cups Elbow Pasta
- ½ tbsp Butter
- 1½ tbsp Garlic minced
- 1 cup Onion chopped
- 1 tbsp Dried Basil leaves
- 1 cup Heavy cream
- Salt to taste
Instructions
Cooking Chicken
- Place the chicken breast on a plate, add all the dry ingredients under the section " to cook chicken"
- Apply well on the breast piece and keep it aside
- To another pan kept on medium flame, drop the butter and let it melt
- Once melted, place the chicken piece and pour 3 tbsp of water
- Clode the pan and cook the chicken for 15mins on one side
- After that flip the chicken breast and by now the water would have completely gone, so add another 3 tbsp of water
- Close again and cook for another 15 mins
- Once cooked, take it off the pan and move to a plate
- Then cut the cooked chicken breast into cubes and keep it aside
For the pasta
- Cook the pasta as per the instruction given in the box and keep it aside
- To the same pan which the chicken is cooked, drop ½ tbsp of butter and melt it
- Once melted, drop the minced garlic and stir until well sauteed
- To it, add the chopped onions and saute well
- Add the dried basil leaves and stir for 2mins
- Then pour the heavy cream and stir, let it boil
- Once boiled, add the cooked pasta and stir well
- Add salt as required
- Add the grated parmesan cheese and stir well
- Once stirred, add the cooked chicken pieces to it and stir once more
- Yummy and easy chicken pasta is ready
- Serve hot!!
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Notes
Try this out and let me know how it went for you.
Lots of Love,
TheLemonGinger
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