Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, creamy pesto pasta with chicken, asparagus & brocolli. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook creamy pesto pasta with chicken, asparagus & brocolli using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Creamy Pesto Pasta With Chicken, Asparagus & Brocolli:
- Prepare pasta (dried weight),
- Take chicken thighs, skins & bones removed, fat trimmed,
- Take Around 8 spears of asparagus, ends trimmed off, chopped,
- Make ready Some florets of brocolli, around 150g worth,
- Take reduced fat pesto,
- Prepare fat free quark or Greek yogurt,
- Take reduced salt chicken stock cube, in 250ml boiled water,
- Make ready dried thyme,
- Make ready Salt and pepper to season
- Make ready Spray cooking oil
- Take To serve:
- Take Grated Parmigianino Reggiano cheese (optional)
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Instructions to make Creamy Pesto Pasta With Chicken, Asparagus & Brocolli:
- Begin to cook the pasta according to packet instructions. Meanwhile heat a large high sided frying pan up over a medium heat. Add in some oil and once hot add in the chicken thigh, (cut it into small bite sized pieces). Brown off the chicken and season with pepper and add the dried thyme. Stir together. Add in the stock. Bring to a simmer.
- After simmering the chicken for around 3-4 minutes add in the chopped florets of brocolli and asparagus. Continue to simmer gently until the water begins to reduce down. Once the pasta is cooked drain it off and set aside.
- Once the water in the frying pan has reduced down by around 95%, (so there's not much left), add in the drained pasta and stir together gently. Remove from the heat.
- Add in the pesto and stir through. Then add in the quark/Greek yogurt and combine until a creamy green sauce is created that coats all the ingredients.
- Season with a little more salt and pepper to taste, serve up and grate over some cheese. Enjoy! :)
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