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Smoky chipotle chicken pasta
Spice up your life with this pasta dish with a twist! A simple chicken and veg sauce learns new moves when ground cumin, smoky chipotle paste and fresh coriander come to town. The fiesta flavours mingle with wholewheat pasta, making it a Mexi meal to remember!
SWK: Source of fibre
SWK: High protein
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Serving size
Ingredients
- 1 handful of fresh coriander
- 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)
- 400g wholewheat pasta (Wheat) (Whole Durum Wheat Flour (100%))
- 5 spring onion
- 240g fat-free Greek-style yogurt (Milk) (Skimmed Milk Concentrate, Skimmed Milk, Bacterial Starter Culture)
- 2 onion
- 2 pepper
- 240g chestnut mushrooms
- 600g diced chicken breast
- 2 tbsp ground cumin
- 1 tbsp chipotle chilli paste (Water, Ground Chipotle Chillies, Onion, Tomato Puree, Spirit Vinegar, Garlic, Salt, Ground Coriander)
- 8 x garlic paste (Garlic, Sea Salt, Citric Acid)
Nutritional Information
Calories: 601
Protein: 54g
Carbs: 83g
Fat: 5.5g
Ingredients
- 1 onion
- 1 pepper
- 1 handful of fresh coriander
- 4 tsp garlic paste (Garlic, Sea 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)
- 200g wholewheat pasta (Wheat) (Whole Durum Wheat Flour (100%))
- 120g fat-free Greek-style yogurt (Milk) (Skimmed Milk Concentrate, Skimmed Milk, Bacterial Starter Culture)
- 120g chestnut mushrooms
- 300g diced chicken breast
- 1 tbsp ground cumin
- 1 tbsp chipotle chilli paste (Water, Ground Chipotle Chillies, Onion, Tomato Puree, Spirit Vinegar, Garlic, Salt, Ground Coriander)
- 3 spring onion
Nutritional Information
Calories: 606
Protein: 54g
Carbs: 83g
Fat: 5.7g
Smoky chipotle chicken pasta
Spice up your life with this pasta dish with a twist! A simple chicken and veg sauce learns new moves when ground cumin, smoky chipotle paste and fresh coriander come to town. The fiesta flavours mingle with wholewheat pasta, making it a Mexi meal to remember!
Cook time:
40 mins
Cuisine:
Mexican
Food group:
Poultry
Allergens: Wheat, Milk
Cooking Instructions
Before you start
- 1 large saucepan
- 1 large non stick frying pan
Get prepping
- Peel the onions and cut each into 8 wedges, then deseed the peppers and dice into 1cm squares. Thinly slice the mushrooms.
Ace your base!
- Spritz a large non-stick frying pan with cooking spray and put it over a medium-high heat. Fry the onions, peppers, mushrooms and chicken for 5-6 mins.
- Add the ground cumin, chipotle(to taste) and garlic paste and cook for 1 min.
Simmer the sauce
- Crumble in half the stock cube (all of it for 4 portions), pour in 250ml water (400ml for 4 portions) and simmer for 6-7 mins, until the chicken is cooked through and the sauce has reduced by half.
Boil the pasta
- Cook the pasta in boiling water for 9-10 mins, then drain.
- Meanwhile, thinly slice the spring onions and finely chop the coriander.
Plate up
- Remove the frying pan from the heat and leave to cool slightly, then stir in the yogurt and pasta.
- Scatter over the spring onions and coriander and serve.