Chicken,  Food,  Healthy,  Pasta,  Vegetables

Chicken Pepper Pasta

December 8, 2011 /

Hello everyone! I have been MIA this week. Been feeling slightly under the weather and I missed 2 days of work this week which has made the rest of my week pretty hectic during the day. You know whenever you miss a few days of something you just feel out of sorts? That is how I feel this week. I am sure I will get back up to speed, but it is the catching up that is the brutal part.

HOWEVER! In the coming weeks I have some really exciting news to share with all of you. I don’t mean to hold you all in suspense, but I just wanted to let you know that soon, RavieNomNoms will have some very exciting developments in her life to tell you all about ♥.

On another note, this pasta I am sharing with you today is something that I made ALL the time during college. When I say all the time I mean ALL the time. It was cheap and it makes great leftovers, what more could a college kid ask for? hehe. Over the years I have tweaked it a little bit and depending what it is in season when I make it I tend to change the recipe a bit,but here is the basic gist…

Ingredients for Pasta:

  •  1 lb chicken breast cut into strips
  • Your choice of pasta, I usually use rotini
  • 1 green bell pepper, chopped
  • 1 orange bell pepper, chopped
  • 1 yellow bell pepper, chopped
  • 5-6 small tomatoes, chopped
  • 2 small shallots, minced
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 teaspoon red pepper flake
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • Parmesan cheese for garnish

Start your water for the pasta, add in just a touch of salt. Add the pasta in once the water starts to boil. Cook until desired doneness. I personally like al dente noodles.

Take your chicken and lightly season each side with half of your salt and pepper. Heat a skillet with 1 tablespoon oil and garlic. Toss in 1 of the shallots once the garlic has started to brown. Cook for about 2 minutes. Add in chicken and brown each side of the strips. Only takes a couple minutes. Put the chicken to the side.

Add in the remaining, oil, garlic, and shallots. Cook for about 2 minutes. Add in the red pepper flake and put in half of the tomatoes and let them break down a bit. Season your peppers with the leftover salt and pepper and add in all the peppers to the pan. Cook them for about 5 minutes until they start to get tender (if you like your vegetables softer just cook longer), add in the remaining tomatoes and place chicken back in the pan.

Drain your pasta and place your chicken/pepper mixture on top. Garnish with Parmesan cheese.

There you have it my dears! It is a simple pasta you can whip up when you don’t have a lot of time after work of if you want something hearty that will fill your belly 🙂

Hope you all are having a great week so far!

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