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Cajun Chicken Pasta

Not Tested Marked for Revision Time: 1 hr Yields: serves Cost: $5.91 per serve Difficulty: 7/10

From Claudia. Also cooked as whole chicken breasts sans pasta. Sauce coats the pasta in a really fantastic way.

Ingredients

  • Chicken breast 500 grams (2 whole)
  • Sundried tomato oil 2 tbsp
  • Butter 3 tbsp
  • Garlic 4 cloves
  • Chicken stock 0.5 cups
  • Sundried tomatoes 140 grams
  • Spinach 2 cups
  • Spinach 1 cup
  • Double cream 1 cup
  • Parmesan 0.5 cups
  • Farfalle pasta 500 grams

    • seasoning

  • Brown sugar 4 tsp
  • Paprika (smoked) 3 tsp
  • Dried oregano 2 tsp
  • Salt 1.5 tsp
  • Garlic powder 1 tsp
  • Onion powder 1 tsp
  • Chilli flakes 0.25 tsp
  • Pepper 0.5 tsp

Steps

  1. Finely chop garlic. roughly chop sundried tomatoes, reserve oil. Shave parmesan. Dice chicken into large pieces.
  2. Combine seasoning ingredients, reserve 1 tbsp then toss chicken in remaining seasoning.
  3. Heat sundried tomato oil in a pan on medium-high. Sear chicken in batches.
  4. Reduce heat to medium, deglaze pan with white wine. Melt butter and add garlic, fry until fragrant
  5. Boil and salt water for pasta.
  6. Add stock, sundried toamtoes and spinach to pan and reduce for 3 minutes.
  7. Add pasta to pot and cook.
  8. Add cream, parmesan and seasoning and combine, then add chicken. Fry 4 minutes until thickened.
  9. Toss through pasta and serve.