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.
