Mediterranean Chicken Pasta
You must try for yourself! Like Teanna said, the juice from the tomatoes, spinach and parmesan gives you a tasty and satisfying flavourful sauce – without all the extra calories!
For the 21 Day Fix Container Count: 1 Red, 1 Yellow, 3/4 Green, 1/2 Blue, 1 Tsp
Servings = 4
Ingredients
- 4-5 chicken breasts
- 1/2 pkg of whole wheat spaghetti or pasta of choice
- 1 medium onion diced
- 1 C sliced cherry tomatoes
- 1 C spinach or 2 small frozen cubes
- Tbsp coconut oil
- Tbsp garlic (minced)
- 2/3 C (2 blue containers) parmesan cheese *can be freshly grated or powdered, have both worked well!
- Salt – to taste
- Pepper – to taste
Instructions
- In a fry pan on medium high heat, melt coconut oil and cook the chicken with salt and pepper and set aside
- Boil water and add pasta once water is boiling
- In the same hot fry pan as the chicken was in, add in diced onion and sauté until translucent (should pick up flavour from chicken, salt and pepper yummm!)
- Lower the heat and add garlic
- While the garlic and onion are sizzling, slice the chicken into strips or desired shape/size and set aside
- In the fry pan, now add tomatoes, spinach, and any other “remix” veggies you wish to add (remix veggie options are below)
- Mix veggie concoction for 3 minutes, and make sure to strain the pasta noodles once they are ready
- ***CONTAINER STEPS ALERT! At this point if you are counting containers – I take my plate, and a tupperware container for lunch(es) the next day and scoop 1 Red container for chicken, and 1 Yellow container for pasta to make myself 2 or more yummy meals. The pasta and meat portions above will make more than 4 servings but it is likely you are also cooking for others – or in my case my bf so I make more for him! It is easy if you are only cooking for yourself to scoop the red and yellow portions of meat and pasta 4 times to make sure you’re being accurate and then add in a quarter of the completed concoction below to each prep container. If you are not counting containers – please disregard my ramble above and proceed to step 10!
- Add in chicken, pasta and parmesan and stir until thoroughly mixed.
- ENJOY!
Remix!
Sometimes there are some veggies that are delicious that need to be used up and I find they can go really well with this recipe! I have added mushrooms, celery, and sun-dried tomatoes for an equally as yummy and nutritious meal – feel free to experiment!
