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Peri-fast chicken pasta
Juicy strips of chicken thigh are jumbled in a hot pan with onion, red pepper, tomatoes and peas, then tumbled with wholesome wholewheat pasta tubes and a lime-spiked peri-peri sauce. It’s fast, filling and thrilling!
SWK: Source of fibre
SWK: High protein
Plants 6
quick cook
Serving size
Ingredients
- 1 handful of fresh coriander
- 200g wholewheat pasta (Wheat) (Whole Durum Wheat Flour (100%))
- 2 tsp peri-peri seasoning (Garlic Granules, Ground Paprika, Red Pepper, Crushed Chilies, Onion Granules, Rubbed Oregano, Lemon Peel, Birds Eye Chilli Powder, Cracked Black Pepper)
- 200g passata (tomatoes, salt, citric acid)
- 1 unwaxed lime
- 300g skinless & boneless chicken thighs (raw skinless boneless chicken thighs)
- 1 onion
- 4 tsp garlic paste (Garlic, Sea Salt, Citric Acid)
- 150g peas
- 8g chicken stock powder (Chicory Extract, Yeast Extract, Salt, Natural Flavouring, Onion Powder, Sugar, Chicken Stock Powder (100% Chicken Broth Powder) Rapeseed Oil.)
- 1 pepper
- 100g Tomatoes Baby Seasonal Mix
Nutritional Information
Calories: 655
Protein: 54g
Carbs: 94g
Fat: 12g
Ingredients
- 2 onion
- 600g skinless & boneless chicken thighs (raw skinless boneless chicken thighs)
- 400g wholewheat pasta (Wheat) (Whole Durum Wheat Flour (100%))
- 8g chicken stock powder (Chicory Extract, Yeast Extract, Salt, Natural Flavouring, Onion Powder, Sugar, Chicken Stock Powder (100% Chicken Broth Powder) Rapeseed Oil.)
- 2 pepper
- 400g passata (tomatoes, salt, citric acid)
- 150g peas
- 2 handful of fresh coriander
- 1 unwaxed lime
- 8 x garlic paste (Garlic, Sea Salt, Citric Acid)
- 4 tsp peri-peri seasoning (Garlic Granules, Ground Paprika, Red Pepper, Crushed Chilies, Onion Granules, Rubbed Oregano, Lemon Peel, Birds Eye Chilli Powder, Cracked Black Pepper)
- 190g Tomatoes Baby Seasonal Mix
Nutritional Information
Calories: 619
Protein: 51g
Carbs: 89g
Fat: 11g
Peri-fast chicken pasta
Juicy strips of chicken thigh are jumbled in a hot pan with onion, red pepper, tomatoes and peas, then tumbled with wholesome wholewheat pasta tubes and a lime-spiked peri-peri sauce. It’s fast, filling and thrilling!
Cook time:
20 mins
Cuisine:
African
Food group:
Poultry
Allergens: Wheat
Cooking Instructions
Before you start
- 1x medium saucepan
- 1x non-stick frying pan
Set the pasta simmering
- Cook the pasta in boiling water for 8-9 mins, then drain.
Ace the base
- Meanwhile, peel and thinly slice the onions, and deseed and thinly slice the peppers.
- On a separate board, trim any visible fat from the chicken, then cut into thin slices.
- Spritz a non-stick frying pan with cooking spray and put it over a medium heat. Fry the onions, peppers, chicken and tomatoes for 4-5 mins.
Things get saucy!
- Add the garlic paste and peri-peri. Cook for 1 min, add the stock powder and pour in the passata and 100ml water (150ml water for 4 portions).
- Stir well and simmer for 5 mins (7 mins for 4 portions), until the chicken is cooked through.
- Add the peas and cook for 2 mins.
Add your final touches
- Chop half the coriander. Halve the lime and cut 1 half into wedges.
- Stir the pasta and chopped coriander into the sauce and squeeze in the juice from half the lime (to taste).
- Serve the chicken pasta with the lime wedges and the remaining coriander scattered over.