Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chicken and butternut squash pasta. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chicken and butternut squash pasta is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Chicken and butternut squash pasta is something which I have loved my whole life.
The butternut squash somewhat melts into a delicious sauce coating the chicken and the pasta with all its lovely goodness. I got the idea from Everyday Italian's Giada DeLaurentis but left out the shrimp, eggplant and use chicken instead. Would you like any cheese in the recipe?
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have chicken and butternut squash pasta using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken and butternut squash pasta:
- Make ready 350 g Chicken breast, shredded
- Get 300 g Penne pasta
- Make ready 1 Courgette cut into cubes
- Prepare 1/2 Aubergine cut into cubes
- Prepare 1/2 Butternut squash cut into cubes
- Take 1 Clove garlic finely chopped
- Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil
- Get Cheese sauce
- Take 500 ml milk
- Make ready 50 g plain flour
- Make ready 50 g butter
- Take 100 g grated cheddar cheese
- Make ready 1 tsp dried tarragon
Who would have thought that butternut squash puree would make the most luxuriously creamy pasta sauce? This pasta is my favorite way to enjoy butternut squash. Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Roast for about an hour or until the squash is extremely tender.
Steps to make Chicken and butternut squash pasta:
- Peel and deseed butternut squash and cut into cubes. Steam or boil for 20 mins
- Cook pasta following pack instructions (around 14 mins)
- Heat 1 tbsp olive oil, pan fry chicken breasts on medium heat for about 6-7 mins until edges are opaque. Flip over, and cook for a further 6-7 minutes or until cooked through. Rest for 5 minutes then shred.
- Cook cheese sauce. Melt butter in a pan. Mix flour and milk, added to the pan, bring to the boil, add cheese and tarragon and simmer on low for 5 mins.
- Cut courgette and aubergine into cubes and sauté with 1 tbsp olive oil and garlic for 5 mins or until soft.
- Drain pasta then add all the other cooked ingredients and sauce into the pan, mix well and serve.
Place in a bowl and mash thoroughly. If the chicken cooks first, remove from the pan, set aside and keep boiling the squash until tender. Scoop the squash out with a slotted spoon, leaving just the stock in the pan. Bring the stock back to the boil and add the pasta; the. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
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