Grandma’s chicken spaghetti {Tallarines con pollo}
User Reviews
4.9
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Prep Time
30 mins
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Cook Time
2 hrs
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Total Time
2 hrs 30 mins
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Servings
8 - 10
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Course
Main Course
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Cuisine
Fusion, American, International
Grandma’s chicken spaghetti {Tallarines con pollo}
Description
This recipe starts by simmering a whole chicken with vegetables like onion, carrot, celery, and garlic to create a flavorful chicken broth and tender meat. The broth is reserved after deboning the chicken to use in cooking the spaghetti and sauce.
A sauce is made by sautéing diced onion, green bell pepper, celery, and garlic, then adding tomato paste and the reserved broth. The mixture cooks together with olives, mushrooms, bay leaf, chilli powder, and spaghetti until the noodles are tender and have absorbed the flavors.
Shredded chicken meat is stirred in at the end, and the dish is seasoned with salt and pepper. It is served hot, topped with grated cheese, fresh basil, and chopped scallions to complement the savory tomato and chicken flavors.
A shortcut option is to use pre-cooked chicken and store-bought chicken stock for convenience.
Ingredients
For the chicken:
- 1 4-5 lb chicken whole
- 1 white onion diced
- 2 carrot peeled and sliced
- 4 celery cut into slices, stalks
- 5 garlic crushed, cloves
- 10-12 cups of water
For the spaghetti:
- 2 tbs olive oil
- ½ white onion diced
- 1 green bell pepper diced
- 3 celery sliced, stalks
- 1 garlic crushed, head
- 4 oz tomato paste canned
- 8 cups chicken broth reserved from cooking the chicken
- 2 cups olives sliced
- 2 cups mushroom sliced
- 1 bay leaf
- chili powder or more to taste, dash
- 2 oz spaghetti
- salt to taste
- black pepper to taste
To serve:
- scallions fresh basil, and grated cheese (can use parmesan, mozzarella, cheddar, etc, chopped
Instructions
For the chicken:
- Place the whole chicken, onions, carrots, celery, garlic, salt, pepper and water in a large stockpot and bring to a boil, cook until the chicken is tender.
- Drain the chicken and reserve 8 cups of chicken broth for later use.
- Debone the chicken, I got about 4 cups of chicken meat.
For the chicken spaghetti:
- Heat the olive oil over medium heat in a large stockpot; add the onions, green pepper, celery and garlic. Cook until the onions soften, about 5 minutes.
- Mix in the tomato paste and add the reserved chicken broth, bring to a boil.
- Add the olives, mushrooms, bay leaf, chili powder and spaghetti.
- Cook until the spaghetti is tender or done to desired level of tenderness, about 12-15 minutes.
- Add the chicken meat and stir well, add salt and pepper to taste.
- Serve with grated cheese, fresh basil and chopped scallions.
Notes
- Use leftover or store-bought shredded chicken and prepared chicken stock to save time.
User Reviews
Overall Rating
4.9
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