Wednesday, December 1, 2010

A quick and easy dinner tonight!

After my morning at the shops and my afternoon which consisted of three hours of dusting, cleaning and mopping upstairs and downstairs, all I feel like doing now is NOTHING! So I have made the following and it's currently in the oven cooking, so once we have collected Warren from work all we have to do is reheat and viola - dinner!

Pasta with chicken, feta & spicy tomato sauce (sourced from taste.com.au)

Pasta with chicken, feta & spicy tomato sauce

Photography by Mark Roper

Ingredients (serves 4)

  • 300g penne pasta
  • 100ml olive oil, plus extra to toss
  • 1 onion, finely chopped
  • 4 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 2 small red chillies, seeds removed, finely chopped
  • 1 tsp harissa paste*
  • 750ml bottle tomato passata*
  • 3 cups shredded cooked chicken
  • 100g feta cheese, diced
  • 1 cup kalamata olives, pitted
  • 1/2 cup freshly chopped flat-leaf parsley

Method

  1. Cook pasta in boiling, salted water until al dente. Drain and toss in a little oil. Heat oil in a pan over medium heat and cook onion until it starts to soften. Add garlic and chilli, and cook for a further 1 minute. Add harissa and passata, and simmer for 5 minutes. Stir in chicken, feta, olives and parsley, then toss through pasta.

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