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Creamy Chicken & Pumpkin Pasta

Here's how you make Creamy Chicken & Pumpkin Pasta
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  • Servings: 4
  • Prep: 20m
  • Cook: 35m
  • The following recipe serves 4 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 375 grams dry fettuccine pasta
  • 2 tablespoon olive oil
  • 500 grams boneless skinless chicken breast (fillet, thinly sliced)
  • 100 grams button mushrooms (sliced)
  • 60 grams bacon rashers (2 rashers shortcut bacon, Canadian style, chopped)
  • 3 green onions, sliced
  • 2 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 2 teaspoon wholegrain mustard
  • 1/3 cup dry white wine (optional)
  • 1/2 cup chicken stock
  • 1/2 cup heavy cream (pure cream)
  • 2 cups pumpkin (roasted)
  • 1/4 cup parsley, chopped (fresh)
  • 60 grams spinach (baby)
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Cook pasta in a saucepan of boiling, salted water following packet directions until tender and then drain and return to pan and cover to keep warm.

  • Step 2: Heat half the oil in a pan over medium-high heat and cook chicken, in batches, for 3 to 4 minutes and transfer to a bowl.

  • Step 3: Heat remaining oil in pan and add mushrooms and cook, stirring for 3 minutes or until softened and then add the bacon and cook, stirring for 5 minutes or until browned.

  • Step 4: Add onion, garlic and mustard and cook, stirring for 1 minute or until fragrant and then add wine and simmer until reduced by half.

  • Step 5: Return chicken and juices to pan and stir to coat and then stir in stock and bring to the boil and then reduce heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes.

  • Step 6: Add cream and season with salt and pepper and simmer for 5 minutes and then add pumpkin, parsley and spinach and cook for 3 to 5 minutes or until spinach is just wilted and serve with pasta.


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