No Chop Chicken & Hidden Veg Sauce Pasta
with Bacon Bits, Baby Spinach & Parmesan Cheese
- Gluten
- Wheat
- Milk
- May contain traces of allergens
- Sesame
- Soy
- Molluscs
- Crustaceans
- Walnut
- Gluten
- Wheat
- Eggs
- Macadamia
- Milk
- Pine nut
- Sulphites
- Pistachio
- Fish
- Almond
Get a head start on your five-a-day with this savoury chicken and hidden veg red sauce pasta, where a veggie-packed sauce meets tender chicken and silky pasta. We’ve stirred through baby spinach and a generous sprinkle of cheese for a comforting, family-friendly bowl that’s as nutritious as it is delicious. It’s the ultimate way to eat your veg without even trying.
Ingredients
1
Fusilli
(Contains: Gluten, Wheat May be present: Sesame, Soy)
1
Chicken Breast Strips
1 sachet
Savoury Seasoning
1 sachet
Hidden Veg Red Sauce
(May be present: Sesame, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Walnut, Gluten, Wheat, Eggs, Macadamia, Milk, Pine nut, Sulphites, Soy, Pistachio, Fish, Almond)
1 packet
Baby Spinach Leaves
1 packet
Parmesan Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
90 g
Diced Bacon
(May be present: Soy, Milk)
Not included in your delivery
1 drizzle
olive oil
20 g
butter
(Contains: Milk)
Utensils
Cooking Steps
- Boil a full kettle of water. Pour boiled water into a large saucepan over high heat with a generous pinch of salt.
- Add fusilli to the boiling water and cook until ‘al dente’, 11 minutes.
- Reserve pasta water (1/4 cup per person). Drain fusilli.
- Meanwhile, in a large frying pan, heat a drizzle of olive oil over medium-high heat.
- Cook diced bacon, breaking up with a spoon, until golden, 4-6 minutes. Transfer to a bowl.
- Return frying pan to medium-high heat with a drizzle of olive oil.
- When oil is hot, cook chicken breast strips and savoury seasoning, tossing, in batches until browned and cooked through, 4-5 minutes.
TIP: The chicken is cooked when it is no longer pink inside.
TIP: Cooking the meat in batches over a high heat helps it stay tender.
- To pan with chicken, add cooked fusilli, hidden red veg sauce, the reserved pasta water and baby spinach leaves, tossing until wilted and combined, 1-2 minutes.
- Remove pan from heat and stir through the butter and half the Parmesan cheese until combined. Season to taste.
- Divide cheesy chicken and hidden veg red sauce pasta between bowls.
- Sprinkle over remaining Parmesan cheese and bacon bits to serve. Enjoy!
ELEVATE ME: If you've added extra ingredients to this recipe, roughly chop kalamata olives and stir through pasta off heat. Tear over coriander and dollop with basil pesto to serve.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Oct 2026- Flavour: Adults found the flavour quite mild; one reviewer boosted it by adding garlic butter mushrooms and sriracha, while another stirred through cream to loosen a dry sauce.
- Ease of prep: The recipe is very quick and simple — one reviewer noted a 10-year-old was able to cook it independently, and it was praised for being fast after a long day.
- Suggestions: Adding more water than specified was noted by one reviewer to help the sauce come together, though this did dilute the flavour slightly — season to taste as you go.
