Valentines day lunch is cooking says my gf. Now I gotta scramble to make some stuff. We're spending the whole weekend at her apartment. She LOVES pasta with chicken in it. Anyone got any killer recipes? Otherwise I might stick with an angel chicken pasta which is easy to make. I'm looking for stuff that doesn't need too many ingredients. I'm not a crappy cook. My gf just doesn't cook and lacks a lot of basic kitchen needs. Yeah, we're going to have to buy garlic. I can imagine myself loading up my car with bakeware already just to see if I can make the right stuff.
Got any killer chicken pasta recipes out there?
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Here's a "clean" recipe I tried recently, from one of the body building mags I read:
With just plain old tomato sauce, it's sorta plain, so you might consider substituting your favorite pasta sauce instead. Also, 3 ounces of pasta isn't much, so you'd have to up the quantity on that as well. Some garlic and mushrooms would be a great addition as well, and not really affect the protein-carb ratio much.
With just plain old tomato sauce, it's sorta plain, so you might consider substituting your favorite pasta sauce instead. Also, 3 ounces of pasta isn't much, so you'd have to up the quantity on that as well. Some garlic and mushrooms would be a great addition as well, and not really affect the protein-carb ratio much.
Capt Caveman
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Here's an easy one that's very good, off the top of my head:
Set up a breading station. Flour, egg wash, and a 50/50 mix of bread crumbs and good Parmesan cheese. Bread the chicken as usual and let it stand for 5-10 mins. The coating has a better shot of staying on this way. Either bake it at 400 degrees until done, or deep fry. I prefer deep frying it, not the healthiest, but on a special occasion go for it.
For the sauce, pick something you've made before. If you're not a handy cook, aglio e olio will work -- that's literally garlic and oil. Slice up a few cloves of garlic (not chop, just slices). Add to a cold saute pan with a heavy pour of olive oil, enough to coat the pasta basically. Put on low heat, you want to extract the garlic flavor. Also add crushed red pepper if you like that. Once its up to temp and the garlic is golden brown, toss your cooked pasta in it, top with a good amount of chopped parsley and some more cheese.
Slice the chicken and add it. Serve.
Use a short pasta, like penne. Buy good pasta, and cook it in lots of salted water. This is meant to be a heavy dish. If you don't like this sauce, you can try making Carbonara. PM me if you want my recipe, I don't have too much time to type it all out right now. I suggest that this be the only course (no appetizer) but that a light salad be served after it, something like dandelion greens, a little red onion, lemon juice, and a touch of olive oil. It'll help get you to dessert.
EDIT: Incidentally, a plain dish of pasta aglio e olio is a pretty traditional (heh) Italian drunk food. It goes without saying that the above is paired well with plenty of red table wine. You don't need to break out the $50 bottle for this, either.
Set up a breading station. Flour, egg wash, and a 50/50 mix of bread crumbs and good Parmesan cheese. Bread the chicken as usual and let it stand for 5-10 mins. The coating has a better shot of staying on this way. Either bake it at 400 degrees until done, or deep fry. I prefer deep frying it, not the healthiest, but on a special occasion go for it.
For the sauce, pick something you've made before. If you're not a handy cook, aglio e olio will work -- that's literally garlic and oil. Slice up a few cloves of garlic (not chop, just slices). Add to a cold saute pan with a heavy pour of olive oil, enough to coat the pasta basically. Put on low heat, you want to extract the garlic flavor. Also add crushed red pepper if you like that. Once its up to temp and the garlic is golden brown, toss your cooked pasta in it, top with a good amount of chopped parsley and some more cheese.
Slice the chicken and add it. Serve.
Use a short pasta, like penne. Buy good pasta, and cook it in lots of salted water. This is meant to be a heavy dish. If you don't like this sauce, you can try making Carbonara. PM me if you want my recipe, I don't have too much time to type it all out right now. I suggest that this be the only course (no appetizer) but that a light salad be served after it, something like dandelion greens, a little red onion, lemon juice, and a touch of olive oil. It'll help get you to dessert.
EDIT: Incidentally, a plain dish of pasta aglio e olio is a pretty traditional (heh) Italian drunk food. It goes without saying that the above is paired well with plenty of red table wine. You don't need to break out the $50 bottle for this, either.
xanis
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Here's something that I made up for myself a while back, and it turned out pretty well.
- boneless chicken breasts
- tomato sauce
- pasta sauce seasoning
- garlic
- white onion
- red bell pepper
- any kind of pasta
Cook the chicken breast with half of the onions, garlic, and red pepper. Throw the other half into the sauce and heat on low/simmer until hot. Add some Italian seasoning (whatever you can find... go to the grocery store seasoning section), salt, and pepper to the chicken, and cook in olive oil. When the chicken is done, drain the excess oil and throw the contents of the pan into the pot with the sauce. Cook up some pasta, throw the chicken/sauce mixture over it, and serve.
- boneless chicken breasts
- tomato sauce
- pasta sauce seasoning
- garlic
- white onion
- red bell pepper
- any kind of pasta
Cook the chicken breast with half of the onions, garlic, and red pepper. Throw the other half into the sauce and heat on low/simmer until hot. Add some Italian seasoning (whatever you can find... go to the grocery store seasoning section), salt, and pepper to the chicken, and cook in olive oil. When the chicken is done, drain the excess oil and throw the contents of the pan into the pot with the sauce. Cook up some pasta, throw the chicken/sauce mixture over it, and serve.
If you have a Trader Joes near you, pick up a bottle of the Chicken Cacciatore sauce.
Cook 1lb. of chicken breasts in a pan, throw in the sauce and let simmer for a few minutes.
Boil some fettucine pasta, add it to the mix and you are good to to with Chicken Cacciatore.
Cook 1lb. of chicken breasts in a pan, throw in the sauce and let simmer for a few minutes.
Boil some fettucine pasta, add it to the mix and you are good to to with Chicken Cacciatore.
JohnOfSheffield
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Pick up some gnocci, fry the chicken in a frying pan, cook the pasta, slice the chicken and put it in a bowl with some olive oil, balm vinegar (couple of table spoons), basil, oregano, garlic and season it with black pepper and salt, put the gnocci in there after it's cooked, it's nice if you cut the chicken in cubes so that the pieces actually fit inside the gnocci, for some reason that just tastes better.
Ok, now get some romano sallad and some cherry tomatoes, wash it, slice it and put it into a bowl, pour your chicken and pasta into it, mix and serve as soon as possible.
If she doesn't like it, she's not worth having.
Chicken with artichokes, capers and a touch of bacon/sundried tomatoes in a cream sauce = win.
Cook bacon lardons (just really small bacon bits) and remove bacon. In same pan
Cubed chicky, brown it it with a light coating of flour, seasoned
Add artichoke hearts, capers and sundried tomatoes, bacon (your bowtie pasta water is boiling at this point, you put the pasta in)
Simmer covered until chicken is almost done - maybe 8 minutes
Add cream, simmer a few minutes and add hard cheese of your liking
Dump drained pasta into pan, flip a few times to coat
Cook bacon lardons (just really small bacon bits) and remove bacon. In same pan
Cubed chicky, brown it it with a light coating of flour, seasoned
Add artichoke hearts, capers and sundried tomatoes, bacon (your bowtie pasta water is boiling at this point, you put the pasta in)
Simmer covered until chicken is almost done - maybe 8 minutes
Add cream, simmer a few minutes and add hard cheese of your liking
Dump drained pasta into pan, flip a few times to coat
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