EASY HEALTHY CHICKEN AND VEGGIE PASTA

Hello foodies out there , wishing everyone a prosperous and wonderful new year ahead ,This is my first post of this year . Like everyone else I  have so much hope and plans for the coming year, let god  guide us to do our best .insha allah ..

Pasta is the one dish i do my experiments on regular basis.whenever it comes to pasta , I follow my own ways ,sometimes I hit and sometimes I miss ,, most of the times it is palatable , but the problem eveytime  is  I get confused when I start , so this time I combined my mother in law's veg soup recipe with pasta &added some fried chicken sausages..(luncheon meat).it is one recipe I will try again for sure.

Here  pasta is not precooked , it is cooked in  freshly made carrot -tomato soup , which gives a flavourful aroma to this dish ,needless to say it is very healthy .this soup recipe alone  comes handy when you are under the weather , or you crave for something hot and comforting but cant go high on calories .

So lets comeback to pasta .

Easy healthy chicken and veggie pasta 

Cuisine : fusion
Author: aysha
Serves -3 people
Preparation time - 5 minutes
Cooking time - 20 minutes


INGREDIENTS

1.Elbow pasta/any pasta- 2 cups
2.Carrot -2 small
3 .tomato- 1 large
4.Onion-1 medium
5.Garlic- 5-6 cloves
6.Chicken stock cube -1
7.Bay leaves-1 no
8Chicken breast pieces/ luncheon meat slices - 3 -4
9.Butter- 2 tblspn
10.Water -1 1/2 cups

METHOD

Preparing vegetable soup /broth


  
1.Chop all the veggies into medium chunks
2.put in a pressure cooker with little water
3.Allow 2 whistles maximum

4.Open the pressure cooker and blend everything together with an immersion blender or put in a food processer and blend well

Preparing pasta

1.Fry the chicken pieces / luncheon meat untill done,Let it cool and then  crumble them

2.Heat butter in a pan

3.Add 1 bay leaf and sautee well

4.Pour the vegetable puree  into the pan
5.Pour water and add  chicken stock cube
6.Add salt if needed.

  7.When soup is boiling
discard the bay leaf and
add pasta                         
  








 8.when pasta is done add shredded chicken

7.add some oregano ,  red chilly flakes or mixed italian spices
8.mix well and serve it hot

Note:
1.I used luncheon meat in this recipe , if you are using chicken breast pieces  ,before frying  just marinate the chicken in
chilly  powder -1 tablspn
turmeric powder -1/2 tspns
salt -2tspn
ginger garlic paste-1 tblspn
 curd -2tablspn

2.Remember to discard the bay leaf once soup starts  boiling and before  adding pasta


Happy eating ..