How to Prepare Perfect Chicken and butternut squash pasta

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Chicken and butternut squash pasta is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Chicken and butternut squash pasta is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

For a tasty twist, toss butternut squash into creamy chicken pasta. The butternut squash somewhat melts into a delicious sauce coating the chicken and the pasta with all its lovely goodness. I got the idea from Everyday Italian's Giada DeLaurentis but left out the shrimp, eggplant and use chicken instead. Transfer the pasta mixture to a wide shallow bowl and serve..

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have chicken and butternut squash pasta using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken and butternut squash pasta:

1. Take 350 g Chicken breast, shredded
2. Make ready 300 g Penne pasta
3. Prepare 1 Courgette cut into cubes
4. Make ready 1/2 Aubergine cut into cubes
5. Make ready 1/2 Butternut squash cut into cubes
6. Get 1 Clove garlic finely chopped
7. Take 2 tbsp olive oil
8. Prepare Cheese sauce
9. Get 500 ml milk
10. Take 50 g plain flour
11. Get 50 g butter
12. Get 100 g grated cheddar cheese
13. Make ready 1 tsp dried tarragon

Pasta in a decadent creamy, homemade, butternut squash pasta sauce, with no cream! The spicy chicken sausage and sage is the perfect compliment Butternut squash makes the creamiest sauce, which makes it a healthy, lighter alternative to cream sauces made with heavy cream and butter. Cooking whole wheat pasta in butternut squash and chicken broth is delicious. Making "Puchero," a delicious meat and vegetable soup from Argentina, often.

Instructions to make Chicken and butternut squash pasta:

1. Peel and deseed butternut squash and cut into cubes. Steam or boil for 20 mins
2. Cook pasta following pack instructions (around 14 mins)
3. Heat 1 tbsp olive oil, pan fry chicken breasts on medium heat for about 6-7 mins until edges are opaque. Flip over, and cook for a further 6-7 minutes or until cooked through. Rest for 5 minutes then shred.
4. Cook cheese sauce. Melt butter in a pan. Mix flour and milk, added to the pan, bring to the boil, add cheese and tarragon and simmer on low for 5 mins.
5. Cut courgette and aubergine into cubes and sauté with 1 tbsp olive oil and garlic for 5 mins or until soft.
6. Drain pasta then add all the other cooked ingredients and sauce into the pan, mix well and serve.

Cooking whole wheat pasta in butternut squash and chicken broth is delicious. Making "Puchero," a delicious meat and vegetable soup from Argentina, often. Roast chicken and butternut squash are two classic fall dishes. Here, the squash is roasted, then tossed with fregola, a toasted Sardinian pasta similar in appearance to Israeli couscous. Fresh herbs and a grating of lemon zest bring bright flavors to the plate.

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