Chicken Pasta | Easy Pasta recipe

Pasta is an Italian cuisine. It's a quick fix meal. Kids love pasta and won't it be great to add little protein to it. You can try various flavor combinations. More variety of veggies can be added to suit ones taste. But today i am posting simple and easy chicken pasta. This will leave kids craving for more.Can use any pasta of your choice.

Ingredients:

1 cup pasta ( any pasta of your choice, here i am using penne pasta)
3 cups water
1 chicken breast (boneless)
salt to taste
1/4 teaspoon oregano (optional)
1/4 teaspoon pepper powder
1/2 cup finely chopped onion
1/2 cup tomato puree
2-3 garlic cloves finely chopped
1/4 teaspoon chilli flakes  (optional)
oil
some shredded cheese

Method:

• Boil 3 cups of water with little salt.
• Once it's boiled add in the pasta and let it cook. Then with the help of colander drain out the water and keep cooked pasta aside.
• Meanwhile in a sauce pan heat some oil.
• Add finely chopped garlic and saute till it turns golden brown.
• Then toss in the finely chopped onions.
• Then add washed chicken pieces (cut into bite size)
• Cook chicken with closed lid. Will take few minutes as chicken pieces are very small.
• Then goes in the tomato puree mix everything for few minutes.
• Add some salt, pepper powder and some oregano and some chilli flakes (optional).
• Lastly add cooked pasta and give it a last mix. Can also add cheese for some rich flavor.
• Serve it with some shredded cheese on top. Once it's cooled doesn't taste great so have it hot or warm.

Pictorial:

                                               Boil 3 cups of water with some salt in it.

Add pasta to the boiled water. Once it gets cooked drain the water in colander and keep it aside.

                  Heat a sauce pan, add some oil. Once it's hot add finely chopped garlic.

                         Once garlic turns golden brown toss in the finely chopped onions.

Then add the washed and cleaned chicken pieces ( cut into bite size). Mix everything and let it cook with lid on. Will take 3-4 minutes.

                                    Once chicken is all cooked add tomato puree mix well.

                        Add little salt, pepper powder, oregano and chilli flakes to it and mix well.

                Lastly, add cooked pasta, give it a nice toss. You can add cheese at this point.

 Splendido..!! Pasta is all ready. Have it hot with some shredded cheese on top of it.