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Sun-kissed chicken pasta in fennel & tomato sauce
If you fell in love with Marry Me chicken, prepare to have your head turned! Diced chicken breast and baby spinach are simmered in a garlicky sun-dried tomato, basil and fennel-infused sauce, made silky with Greek-style yogurt. Stirred together with plenty of penne, it might just give you butterflies.
SWK: High protein
Plants 4
Serving size
Ingredients
- 1 onion
- 300g diced chicken breast
- 2 garlic clove
- 1 handful of fresh basil
- 1 tsp fennel seeds
- 1 tbsp sun-dried tomato paste (Water, Sun Dried Tomato (Sun dried tomatoes, Salt), Tomato Paste, White Wine Vinegar 12%, Salt, Ground Oregano, Citric Acid, Ascorbic Acid)
- 200g pasta (Wheat) (Durum Wheat Semolina (Wheat Gluten))
- 200g passata (tomatoes, salt, citric acid)
- 1 chicken stock cube (use half) (Celery) (sea salt, potato starch*, sustainable palm oil* , sugar*, chicken fat* 3.5%, yeast extract, natural flavour, chicken meat* 1%, herbs & spices* (turmeric*, black pepper*, parsley*, rosemary*), onion powder*. * Organic ingredient)
- 80g baby spinach
- 120g fat-free Greek-style yogurt (Milk) (Skimmed Milk Concentrate, Skimmed Milk, Bacterial Starter Culture)
- 100g Tomatoes Baby Seasonal Mix
Nutritional Information
Calories: 631
Protein: 56g
Carbs: 91g
Fat: 4.7g
Ingredients
- 400g pasta (Wheat) (Durum Wheat Semolina (Wheat Gluten))
- 2 onion
- 4 garlic clove
- 1 handful of fresh basil
- 600g diced chicken breast
- 2 tsp fennel seeds
- 2 tbsp sun-dried tomato paste (Water, Sun Dried Tomato (Sun dried tomatoes, Salt), Tomato Paste, White Wine Vinegar 12%, Salt, Ground Oregano, Citric Acid, Ascorbic Acid)
- 400g passata (tomatoes, salt, citric acid)
- 1 chicken stock cube (Celery) (sea salt, potato starch*, sustainable palm oil* , sugar*, chicken fat* 3.5%, yeast extract, natural flavour, chicken meat* 1%, herbs & spices* (turmeric*, black pepper*, parsley*, rosemary*), onion powder*. * Organic ingredient)
- 160g baby spinach
- 240g fat-free Greek-style yogurt (Milk) (Skimmed Milk Concentrate, Skimmed Milk, Bacterial Starter Culture)
- 190g Tomatoes Baby Seasonal Mix
Nutritional Information
Calories: 629
Protein: 56g
Carbs: 91g
Fat: 4.7g
Sun-kissed chicken pasta in fennel & tomato sauce
If you fell in love with Marry Me chicken, prepare to have your head turned! Diced chicken breast and baby spinach are simmered in a garlicky sun-dried tomato, basil and fennel-infused sauce, made silky with Greek-style yogurt. Stirred together with plenty of penne, it might just give you butterflies.
Cook time:
25 mins
Cuisine:
Italian
Food group:
Poultry
Allergens: Milk, Wheat
Cooking Instructions
Set the pasta simmering
- Cook the pasta in boiling water for 8-9 mins, then drain.
Create a stir!
- Meanwhile, peel the onions and cut each into 8 wedges. Peel and crush the garlic, and finely chop half the basil.
- Spritz a large non-stick frying pan with cooking spray and put it over a medium-high heat. Fry the onions, chicken and tomatoes for 5 mins.
- Add the garlic and fennel seeds and cook for 2 mins.
Sauce things up
- Squeeze in the tomato paste and passata. Crumble in half the stock cube, then pour in 250ml water (use all the stock and 350ml water for 4 portions) and stir well.
- Simmer for 5 mins, until the chicken is cooked through and coated with sauce, adding the spinach for the final min.
Bring everything together
- Remove the pan from the heat, leave to cool slightly and stir in the pasta, chopped basil and yogurt.
Herb & serve
- Sprinkle over the remaining basil leaves and serve.