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Quick One-Pot Creamy Chicken Pasta Dinner
This Quick, One-Pot Creamy Chicken Pasta Dinner is loaded with fresh veggies and packs a good serving of protein from the succulent chicken. The best part: it comes together in just 10 minutes of cooking time! Sounds too good to be true, but it’s seriously too good and too true! :)
Prep Time
2 mins
Cook Time
2 mins
Total Time
12 mins
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 929 kcal
Course:
Main Course
Cuisine:
American
Ingredients
For the chicken:
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1.5 lbs chicken breasts cut up into half an inch thick strips about 3 inches long
- 1/2 teaspoon Kosher or sea salt
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
For the Veggies:
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 1 bunch of fresh Asparagus trimmed and chopped
- 1/2 cup sun-dried tomatoes chopped
- 1 cup sliced mushrooms
- pinch salt
For the Pasta:
- 1 box pasta 375 g - any shape you prefer as long as it fits in your pot comfortably with the water, chicken and veggies
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1/2 cup table cream or you can use light cream if you prefer
- 1 teaspoon salt
For the Toppings and Assembly:
- 1/4 cup fresh basil minced
- 1 lemon zested
- 1 cup Parmesan cheese grated (more or less to your taste)
- pinch red chilli flakes skip, or adjust to your taste
- freshly grated black pepper to your taste
Notes
- For Stove Top: Follow the recipe as is, but cover your pot and allow the chicken and pasta to cook for about 25 minutes.
- For Stove Top: Follow the recipe as is, but cover your pot and allow the chicken and pasta to cook for about 25 minutes.
- I used fusilli pasta, but you can go with any kind of pasta that fits into your instant pot easily.
- Using chicken breast allows for a delicious flavor and quicker coking time.
- Cutting the chicken breast into strips or cubes helps make cooking faster.
- The type of veggies you choose are completely up to you, and depends on what you have on hand.
- Same with the sauce - I just added cream, however pesto and other sauces are amazing too!
- Adding extra flavoring like spice, herbs, lemon zest is an easy way to infuse flavor.
- Finally cheeses: adding Parmesan is the prefect finish. However adding blue cheese, goat cheese, feta cheese is also amazing!!