Sunday, June 9, 2013

Simple Baked Pasta with Chicken

My all time favorite meal to cook, Baked Pasta with Chicken.
This meal takes about 30 minutes in total to prepare and cook and then another 30 minutes to bake in the oven.


This is a very simple dish that any one can cook/bake for the family, especially if you have children.

Here are the following ingredients and cooking method.
(Serving: 3 persons)

Ingredients:
1x Pasta Sauce (cream or tomato based, anything of your preference)
1x packet of pasta (any choice of pasta; spaghetti, penne, etc)
200g of chicken fillet (any other choice of meat is replaceable)
1 packet of cheddar cheese

Cooking Method:
1. Marinate the chicken (you can choose any other marinate or you can follow my method)
    1/2 tsp salt
    1/4 tsp pepper
    1/4 tsp 5 spices powder
    1 TBsp chinese cooking wine
    mix thoroughly; then add
    1 dash of sesame oil
    and mix thoroughly again
    once done, place into fridge to marinate

2. Place a pot of water over high heat and bring to boil and cook pasta according to instructions on the packet. Once boiled and cooked to your preference, drain the water and place the pasta into a mixing bowl.

3. Use a pan to stir fry the marinated chicken until slightly brown on both sides.

4. Add the stir fried chicken to the pasta in the mixing bowl. Open up the bottle of pasta sauce and add about 3 tablespoons to the bowl. Also, add in some cheddar cheese; about 2 handfuls and then mix all the ingredients thoroughly. The cheese will begin to melt with the ingredients.

5. Have on hand a square baking pan and add half of the mixed pasta into the baking pan. Add half of the remaining pasta sauce and then place the remaining pasta on top. There should be enough pasta sauce to spread over the top. Then add the rest of the cheddar cheese as the topping.

6. You can then bake the pasta in the oven at 180 degrees celsius for 30-40minutes. If you prefer your topping to be more baked/burnt, add on another 10 minutes for the cheese to be grilled in the oven.




Once done, your baked pasta will be ready to serve.


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