Pasta - Chicken, Spinach and Pine Nut Cream Pasta
This is one of those dishes that just comes together like a dream and furnishes your taste buds with more flavours than you could shake a wooden spoon at. It is a dish that possibly every household has a version of – well this is mine and I am still in a miasma of pasta perfection.
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Ingredients
- 2 chicken breasts sliced in to strips
- 2 cloves of garlic chopped
- 250 ml chicken stock
- 250 ml single cream
- 4 or 5 good handfuls of spinach
- 5 strips of smoked bacon chopped
- 6 sundried tomatoes chopped
- Handful of basil
- Black pepper
- 100 gm toasted pine nuts
Details
servings 4
Level of difficulty Average
Preparation time 5mins
Cooking time 20mins
Cost Average budget
Preparation
Step 1
Pan fry the chicken for 5 minutes with the garlic. Add the stock. Simmer for 5 minutes then add the sun dried tomatoes.
Step 2
Put the pasta on – I used fusilli but tagliatelle would work too. I used 400 gm for 4.
Step 3
Add the cream and the torn basil to the chicken and a good grind or two of black pepper. In a separate pan fry the bacon til just crisping. Put to one side. Add the spinach to the chicken and stir on a low light until the spinach is wilting and the cream sauce starting to bubble gently. Add the bacon and stir again gently.
Step 4
Drain the pasta and share between four bowls. Add a portion of the sauce to each and then top with the pine nuts.
A dish to play with too – certainly – you could add even more bacon – or dried chilli flakes – whatever grabs your fancy! It goes great with Shiraz!
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