Pasta Amore

Pasta Amore

Sunday at my parents house, no one prepared lunch, even the helper forgot about it. I was busy preparing Jabin’s food for the week: vegetable stock and broccoli and carrot purée, then I realized it was past our lunchtime. So I made this recipe. I was thinking of something like chicken pesto with cheese for merienda, but I saw everyone was already hungry though no one was complaining about it but my stomach. Glad that I had already prepared all the ingredients I needed, except for black olives (didn’t have it around) and pesto sauce, I didn’t have time to make this so I used chopped fresh basil instead.

Ingredients:

• 250g Del Monte Tomato and cheese Pasta Sauce
• 250g Pasta Amore
• 2 chicken breast fillet
• 1 cup yellow or green sweet pepper
• 1 medium onion, thinly sliced
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• (Optional) fresh basil, chopped/pesto sauce
• (Optional) salt
• (Optional) pepper
• (optional) garlic powder
• (Optional) black olives
• (Optional) grated parmesan cheese

Procedure:

1. Cook pasta according to package directions; drain.
2. Meanwhile, season chicken with garlic powder, salt and pepper, if desired.
3. Cook chicken, sweet pepper and onion in oil in large skillet over medium-high heat 5 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink.
4. Add pasta sauce; simmer, uncovered, 5 minutes or until slightly thickened. Add olives and fresh basil, if desired.
5. Toss with hot pasta. Serve with shredded Parmesan cheese, if desired.