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‘Marry meʼ chicken pasta
Itʼs an enduring TikTok sensation, and youʼll only need a mouthful to understand why! Slow-roasted tomatoes are key to the flavour – as is tender chicken cooked with garlic and thyme. They’re served with pasta spirals, spinach and cavolo nero in a creamy sauce, with lashings of basil and lemon. One word – wow!
SWK: Source of fibre
SWK: High protein
Plants 3
Serving size
Ingredients
- 2 skinless chicken breasts
- 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)
- 1 handful of fresh basil
- 120g fat-free Greek-style yogurt (Milk) (Skimmed Milk Concentrate, Skimmed Milk, Bacterial Starter Culture)
- 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)
- 3 garlic clove
- 1 handful of fresh thyme
- 160g baby spinach
- 1 unwaxed lemon
- 200g baby tomatoes
- 80g Cavolo Nero (whole leaf) (Cavolo Nero (whole leaf))
- 2 tsp smoked paprika & oregano blend (smoked paprika, oregano)
- 200g girandole pasta (Wheat, Barley, Oats, Soya) (100% Durum Wheat Semolina)
Nutritional Information
Calories: 646
Protein: 58g
Carbs: 91g
Fat: 7.1g
Ingredients
- 400g baby tomatoes
- 6 garlic clove
- 1 handful of fresh thyme
- 160 x Cavolo Nero (whole leaf) (Cavolo Nero (whole leaf))
- 4 skinless chicken breasts
- 320g baby spinach
- 4 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)
- 4 tsp smoked paprika & oregano blend (smoked paprika, oregano)
- 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 girandole pasta (Wheat, Barley, Oats, Soya) (100% Durum Wheat Semolina)
- 1 unwaxed lemon
- 2 x of fresh basil
- 240g fat-free Greek-style yogurt (Milk) (Skimmed Milk Concentrate, Skimmed Milk, Bacterial Starter Culture)
Nutritional Information
Calories: 637
Protein: 57g
Carbs: 88g
Fat: 7.1g
‘Marry meʼ chicken pasta
Itʼs an enduring TikTok sensation, and youʼll only need a mouthful to understand why! Slow-roasted tomatoes are key to the flavour – as is tender chicken cooked with garlic and thyme. They’re served with pasta spirals, spinach and cavolo nero in a creamy sauce, with lashings of basil and lemon. One word – wow!
Cook time:
35 mins
Cuisine:
American
Food group:
Poultry
Allergens: Milk, Wheat
Cooking Instructions
Get the tomatoes in the oven
- Heat your oven to 160ºC/fan 140ºC/gas 3.
- Halve the tomatoes and put them on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Spritz with cooking spray, lightly season and cook for 25 mins.
Start the sauce
- Meanwhile, peel and thinly slice the garlic. Finely chop the thyme leaves. Discard the woody stalks from the middle of the cavolo nero, then thinly slice the leaves.
- Spritz a large non-stick frying pan with cooking spray and put it over a high heat. Fry the chicken breasts for 3-4 mins on each side until golden brown, then remove and set aside.
- Keep the pan over a medium heat, spritz with cooking spray and tip in the garlic. Cook for 1 min.
- Add the thyme, spinach and cavolo nero. Cook for 3-4 mins until wilted, then add the tomato paste and paprika blend.
Simmer the chicken & pasta
- Crumble the stock into the pan, pour in 400ml boiled water and stir well.
- Return the chicken to the pan and simmer for 10-12 mins until cooked through, then remove from the heat.
- At the same time, cook the pasta in boiling water for 8-9 mins, then drain.
Ramp up the flavour!
- Zest and quarter the lemon. Finely chop half the basil leaves.
- Transfer the chicken breasts to a separate board, lightly season and slice.
- Stir the chopped basil into the sauce along with the yogurt, pasta and a squeeze of lemon juice (to taste).
Scatter & serve
- Top the pasta with the chicken and roasted tomatoes, then scatter over the zest and remaining basil leaves. Serve with the lemon wedges.