Chicken pasta in a herby 6 vegetable ragu - Jamie Oliver 15 minute meals



Chicken pasta in a herby 6 vegetable ragu - Jamie Oliver 15 minute meals
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4.6/5

If you need your five a day, this will do it in one!

Paul R Smith
Topped with chicken, bacon, pine nuts, Mahón-Menorca and a little parsley
Servings:4
Calories per serving:293
Ready in:35 minutes
Prep. time:15 minutes
Cook time:20 minutes
Difficulty:Average difficulty
Recipe author:Chef
First published:11th October 2014

Another of my takes on Jamie's 15 minute meals. Keeping it fairly close to his original, the only differences being that I'll use tagliatelle, rather than wholewheat fusilli as I find fusilli quite a 'heavy' pasta, and the wholewheat version even more so. I'll use my home smoked bacon and some nice mature Mahón-Menorca cheese instead of parmesan.

I think you would be pushed to prep this meal in 15 minutes, let alone prep and cook. Anyway, a brilliant meal and well worth making. I've used 3 chicken breasts and this will stretch to 6 servings if your not too greedy.


Ingredients

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Method

pasta sauce

  1. Quarter the leek lengthwise, keeping the past part uncut in order to feed through the food processor easily
  2. Slice the celery into four, lengthwise, leaving the leafy end uncut for the same reason
  3. Peel, top and tail the carrot and slice into 4 lengthwise, ditto with the courgette
  4. Cut the pepper into strips
  5. Feed all of the vegetables through a food processor with a thin slicing cutter so they are all finely chopped, feed them through a second time if need be
  6. Add the olive oil and a grind of black pepper to an iron casserole dish and heat over the hob
  7. Add the thyme leaves picked from the sprig and the vegetables and pan-fry for 10 minutes stirring regularly
  8. After the vegetables have been cooked, stir in the passata and simmer gently
  9. pasta
  10. Meanwhile cook the pasta in boiling salted water for about 6 minutes or according to the packet instructions
  11. Hammer the chicken breasts flat and cut into a 2 cm dice
  12. Heat a tablespoon of olive oil and a grind of black pepper and the sprig of rosemary and the bay leaves in a separate pan or wok and stir-fry the chicken until golden and properly cooked
  13. Cut the bacon into fine slices, crush the garlic and finely chop the chilli
  14. Add these to the chicken and stir fry with the pine nuts until the bacon is browned
  15. Drain the pasta, reserving a little of the cooking liquor to loosen the finished dish
  16. Mix the pasta and the sauce, adding a little of the liquor to loosen it if needed
  17. Scatter the chicken and bacon over the pasta and garnish with finely grated Mahón-Menorca cheese and a little chopped parsley
  18. Serve!

Recipe source

  • Based on a recipe seen on Jamie Oliver's 15 minute meals, but made more leisurely!


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