I'm never really sure what to call this dish. Its good though, and you can use the roasted red peppers you now can make! This is a quick, easy meal. I like it for that reason! The other night I served it to my family with roasted asparagus (yes, mom, you read that right!) and we thought it went well together. Usually I do a salad with it and bread is always good, too!
Pasta with Peppers and Chicken
2 cups penne pasta (rotini, ziti, shells...any will work nicely)
3 Tbs olive oil
3-4 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup onion, diced
1 oz fresh basil, chopped (or substitute 1 tsp dried basil)
1 cup grilled chicken, sliced into strips
1 cup roasted red peppers, diced or sliced
1/2 cup chicken broth
1/4 cup parmesan cheese (opt)
salt and pepper to taste
Cook pasta according to package directions in salted water. Meanwhile, when pasta is about 5 minutes from being done, heat olive oil in a large skillet on medium heat. Add onions and garlic and stir fry until transparent. Add basil, peppers, and cooked chicken; cook 2 minutes more. Drain your pasta. Add chicken broth and hot pasta to skillet. Stir together until all ingredients are evenly distributed. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese, if desired, and season with salt and pepper if needed. Serve and enjoy!
Notes: I haven't had the option out here to quickly grill up some chicken on a gas grill. So I just stir fry the chicken for this. Before doing the onion, as the recipe says, I put about 1/2 Tbs oil in the skillet with some sliced chicken (about 2 breasts) that I have seasoned with salt and pepper. I usually put the garlic in with the chicken. When the chicken is almost done, I add a little liquid smoke sometimes to give a little grill flavor! You can either just add some more oil and the onions or take the cooked chicken out and proceed with the recipe as written. I've never had fresh basil to make this with, so I've always used dried. Its still good, but I'm sure fresh would give a much fuller flavor! If your chicken is not grilled already, it usually times out just right to start it when you start cooking your pasta--it only takes about 10 minutes to cook the chicken and veggies, which is about how long most pastas will take!
Hey! I sent you this recipe. Now I don't feel so bad for never sending you a guest post a few weeks ago.
ReplyDeleteHa! Yep, totally your recipe! I might post that lime chicken and black bean salsa of yours before long too! :) Summer is here!
ReplyDeleteSend me a guest post any time if you have a great idea!! I have a recipe I was going to send you this week that I got from a friend recently.
I just made this with some minor adjustments to suit our family. It was very tasty! First I doubled the recipe so that it would feed the 5 of us. I cooked my pasta in chicken broth to add more flavor and I left out the roasted red peppers but did add pepper flakes to give it a kick.
ReplyDeleteI will be making this again.
Oh great Angie. Glad you liked it. I feel like the roasted peppers add a lot of the flavor to this dish, so I'm glad it worked okay without them. Maybe cooking the pasta in the broth helped that! I'm finding as my kids get older and our numbers keep increasing that we're having to double a lot of the recipes on here now too!
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