Pasta with chicken breast: a few simple recipes

There are dishes that are simple in their execution, but at the same time extraordinarily tasty. Here, pasta with chicken breast can perfectly act as everyday, ordinary food. Or maybe it's a festive meal, which occupies the main place at the head of the table.

Tasty and nutritious

Pasta with chicken breast with the addition of various ingredients (see the recipes below) is not only delicious, but also useful food. Pasta (pasta, spaghetti, horns, spiral) in the understanding of many people associate with the country of Italy, and ultimately - with Italian cuisine. But at the same time the notorious Marco Polo, the traveler and the discoverer, the recipe for the preparation of this product brought, as is known, from China. And despite the indisputable fact that pasta is still made from flour, few people recover from its regular consumption. Of course, not all pasta varieties bring benefits, but only those that contain wheat of solid grades and include many substances useful to the human body, fiber and complex carbohydrates including. But back to our dish. This, as already mentioned, pasta with chicken breast. And the main ingredient here is pasta. We will start with them.

"Hand-made" paste

How to cook pasta at home? We have already found out that traditionally the word "pasta" is understood as any pasta that is prepared from mixtures of wheat flour, water, eggs (sometimes the latter are excluded from the ingredients), as well as the food from these products. By the way, the paste is distinguished and fresh, and dry, and egg, and cooked on water, and large, and small size, even colored. But we will use the simplest, basic recipe.

How to cook pasta at home

We need: half a kilo of flour, three eggs of raw, half a glass of water, salt on the tip of the knife. That's all the ingredients for pasta: everything looks pretty simple, well, after all, this dish is quite democratic and does not require large investments and exquisite ingredients.

1. Beat the eggs with a fork. The smallest - to a little foam.
2. We sift the flour, pour it into the bowl, and in the center we make a deepening. There, pour in the beaten eggs. We add water, salt.
3. We knead the elastic and smooth dough. Cover the food film and let stand for half an hour.
4. Next, divide the dough into three approximately equal parts.
5. On the surface, sprinkled with flour, roll the first piece of dough into a thin, delicate layer, sprinkle a little flour on top.
6. Then fold the rollout several times. And the resulting dough is cut in stripes 0.5-0.7 cm in width. We unfold the strips to the full length and let them dry. In the same way, prepare strips from other parts of the dough.
7. If you are not going to cook immediately, the paste "hand-made" can be wrapped in a film and kept in the refrigerator for a week, but no more. If you put it in the freezer, then the month will last without damage.

Pasta with chicken breast: basic recipe

Here is a simple and very good recipe for beginners. Pasta with chicken breast and tomatoes is suitable for everyday home meals. But if you want you can and expensive guests to feed this unpretentious, but nutritious and hearty, very beautiful and tasty dish. We need: half a kilo of chicken breasts, a couple of large tomatoes, a couple of Bulgarian sweet peppers, lean oil, dry greens, salt and spices to taste. Well, pasta, of course (spaghetti, pasta, spiral, noodles, as options) - home or shop.

Cooking is easy

1. Chicken cut into small pieces. Fry in lean oil in a large frying pan (you can take the wok) not too long, less than 10 minutes, so that the breast becomes blush.
2. Then a quarter of the rings are cut into Bulgarian pepper (peeled from seeds). Stir with the breast and fry there about five minutes approximately.
3. Then we cover the tomatoes well with hot water to remove the peel (but this procedure can also be skipped). Cut tomatoes cubes finely and put them to the mixture in a frying pan, mix thoroughly.
4. We close the lid and stew for another ten minutes. And after the salt to taste, add spices and herbs dry.
5. Now let's refuel and stand still for about five minutes. And at this time we cook pasta.
6. Appetizing meats are ready: it remains to mix the dressing and pasta. By the way, some prefer not to do this, but to serve the dressing in a separate dish, sprinkling it with spaghetti directly on the plate.

In creamy sauce

Pasta with chicken breast and mushrooms in a creamy sauce is also prepared quite simply. The whole secret is the sauce. And, of course, to the basic ingredients, you need to add mushrooms. Creamy sauce - seasoning is traditional and versatile, suitable for many dishes. And they love it for its tastiness and simplicity.

Mushrooms in the amount of 300 grams, cream - a glass, natural fused cheese - 150 grams. All other ingredients are as in the base.

A recipe for pasta with chicken breast and cream is available for any hostess. After frying the chicken breast, add to it mushrooms (for example, champignons, but you can take and wood), cut finely. They will necessarily start up the juice, it needs to be fried, evaporated. As soon as it happened (minutes 10), add the cream, mix and stew for about five minutes. In the end, we introduce processed cheese, it dissolves well and quickly, and we extinguish for 3-4 more minutes. All other steps are performed in the same way as in the basic recipe.

We serve on a table mixed with spaghetti, but it is possible to put a portion of pasta in a bowl, and on top of them, pour a few large spoons of tasty sauce with pieces of breast and mushrooms. Well, tastes good?