Friday, September 30, 2011

QUICK CHICKEN CHEESY PASTA

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This titled quick chicken cheesy pasta! I came up with this creation on a whim after getting home from work and was terribly hungry to say the least. I searched the cabinets, fridge and freezer and quickly put this together without a recipe. It took about a matter of 30 minutes total to prepare and cook. I was very hungry because I allowed myself to be at work the entire day and not have any thing to eat. Now this pasta dish was quick, easy to prepare, and took no time to cook and it would have gone well with a side salad and maybe some garlic bread, but since it was late did not want to eat too heavy of a meal and soon retire for a good slumber of sleep. The picture above is with cheese and the one below it what it will look like if you don't want any cheese. Ingredients include, chicken strips or tenderloins, olive oil, seasoning, shell pasta, and can/jar(your selection of tomato sauce), garlic, and some italian herb spices or parsley flakes.

2c of chicken tenderloins cut up and dice in chunks
2tbsp of olive oil
2c of your choice tomato sauce(i used a 32oz can of hunt's with chunky mushrooms)
1/3c cooking wine vinegar
16oz bag of shell past
2tsp parsley flakes or italian herb
1 clove of garlic
salt/pepper to taste
water

Boil water to include 1tsp of olive oil, and when rapid bowl add pasta. In a bowl add diced chicken, vinegar, parsley flakes, and seasoning. Let sit for about few seconds, then heat skillet with 1 tsp of olive oil and add chicken, cook until tender and white. Then add pasta sauce diced of clove of garlic, let cook for about 15min then add shell pasta to tomato sauce mix and little more seasoning because the acid from the tomatoes will quickly take over and simply taste like tomato sauce, so adding additional seasoning will not give it a salty taste. Stir and allow to cook for about 10 minutes and then if you want while its cooking toast your garlic bread and mix salad together and add pasta, sprinkle some sharp cheddar cheese on top or not and enjoy!



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