Bet you're wondering how I got this chicken a kind of golden brown on top? The glow of some color, that beautiful warm mahogany hue, well, read on in the recipe for this one=dish baked italian chicken pasta. It's just an extra little step that makes your chicken glow! And, who doesn't love serving glowing chicken!
We all love simple, easy and quick recipes. Then when we make these recipes ultra healthy. Well, it's a big win for everything. Our palates. Our waistline. Our health.
Putting it all in one baking pan, and you can use glass, ceramic, metal, whatever you like that's oven usable, makes the preparation of dinner super quick. All you need with this dish when serving is maybe a salad. And, if you like, bread!
Cooking the Pasta
Are you wondering how this pasta cooks? Well, it does and it kind of steams in the liquid of the tomatoes and then the flavor of the roasting chicken. About midway through the cooking, you'll want to carefully peel back the foil (or remove the lid) and take two forks and gently separate and disperse the 'nests' into noodles that will just simmer and cook in the liquid. Actually, this pasta had an almost 'dumpling' like taste and texture. It wasn't al dente, and it wasn't intended to be al dente. I wanted the soft cooked pasta to just swim and soak up all the love of the flavors and juices.
If you don't want to use pasta nests, and this is tagliatelle, you could use a penne pasta or other type of noodle. I'm not sure I'd use spaghetti, fettucini or linquine. As these noodles cook, they could stick together. But, I haven't experimented with those types of noodles, and if you do, please let me know your results and share your culinary commentary in the comments. Hey, we all learn from each other!
Here's the perfect dessert to go with this meal! If you haven't tried my Croatian Cheesecake (yep, it's a vintage legacy recipe from my family!), then you're life is not complete! lol! ~ally xoxo
- Preheat oven to 400
- 2 cans (14.5 oz.) chopped tomatoes + 2 cups water
- 2 Tbl. Italian seasoning mixture
- 1 Tbl. nutritional yeast
- 1 tsp. sea salt
- 1 cup fresh basil leaves
- 5 tagliatelle pasta nests
- 2 1/2 lbs. chicken, combination boneless skinless chicken breasts and bone in, skin on chicken thighs
- 1/3 cup Italian vinagrette dressing
- 1/e cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1/2 cup olives, green and black, pitted, optional
Ingredients
Instructions
