Creamy Tomato Chicken Penne
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Creamy Tomato Chicken Penne

Creamy Tomato Chicken Penne

with Baby Spinach

A penne for your thoughts? Well, we’re thinking of tender chicken and pasta in a rich and creamy sauce. With baby spinach and zucchini for goodness, and topped with Parmesan cheese, this is the bowl of your (and our) dreams!

Allergens:
Milk
Gluten
Wheat

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Preparation Time40 minutes
DifficultyEasy

Ingredients

/ Serving 4 people

2 unit

brown onion

6 clove

garlic

1 packet

chicken thigh

3 sachet

tomato paste

2 unit

zucchini

1 bag

baby spinach leaves

2 cube

chicken stock

1 tub

cooking cream

(Contains Milk;)

1 bunch

basil

1 bunch

thyme

2 packet

penne

(Contains Gluten, Wheat; May be present: Egg, Soy, Milk. )

2 packet

Parmesan cheese

(Contains Milk;)

Not included in your delivery

olive oil

40 g

butter

½ tsp

salt

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Nutritional Values

per serving
Energy (kJ)0 kJ
Calories4130 kcal
Fat40.1 g
of which saturates21.7 g
Carbohydrate90.8 g
of which sugars17.4 g
Dietary Fibre0 g
Protein56.8 g
Cholesterol0 mg
Sodium990 mg
The average adult daily energy intake is 8700 kJ

Utensils

Chopping board
Knife
Medium Pan
Strainer
Large Non-Stick Pan
Plate

Instructions

Get prepped
1

Bring a medium saucepan of salted water to the boil. Finely chop the garlic (or use a garlic press). Pick the thyme leaves. Thinly slice the brown onion. Cut the zucchini into 1cm cubes. Pick and thinly slice the basil leaves (reserve a few leaves for garnish!). Cut the chicken thigh into 2cm chunks.

Cook the pasta
2

Add the penne to the boiling water and cook for 9 minutes, or until ‘al dente’. Reserve 1 cup of pasta water, drain, then return the pasta to the saucepan and drizzle with olive oil to prevent sticking.

Cook the chicken
3

While the pasta is cooking, heat a drizzle of olive oil in a large frying pan over a medium-high heat. Once hot, add the chicken thigh and a pinch of salt and pepper and cook, tossing, for 5-6 minutes or until browned and cooked through. Transfer to a plate.

Start the sauce
4

In the same frying pan, heat the butter and a drizzle of olive oil over a medium-high heat. Add the onion and zucchini and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes or until softened. Add the garlic and thyme and cook for 1 minute or until fragrant. Add a generous drizzle of olive oil and the tomato paste (see ingredients list). Cook the tomato paste, stirring, for 2 minutes or until slightly darkened. TIP: Frying the tomato paste deepens its flavour.

Bring everything together
5

Add 2/3 cup pasta water to the frying pan and crumble in 2 chicken stock cubes. Stir to combine. Reduce the heat to low and add the cooking cream, salt, basil, baby spinach leaves, chicken thigh and any resting juices from the chicken. Stir until heated through. Add the penne and toss to coat. Season to taste with pepper. TIP: Add a dash more pasta water if the sauce looks too thick.

Serve up
6

Divide the creamy tomato and spinach penne with chicken between bowls. Top with the shaved Parmesan cheese. Garnish with reserved basil leaves.

TIP: For kids, follow our serving suggestion in the main photo!