Looking for a quick and easy chicken pasta recipe that the whole family will love? This easy chicken pasta recipe is packed with healthy nutrients, rich flavours and plenty of hidden vegetables. It’s a perfect dinner for picky eaters as well as satisfying the adults. We love this recipe for its flexibility: add whatever extra vegetables you have on hand, and boost up your veggies serves for the day. It’s a great one for busy school nights, and will be on the table with a minimum of fuss!
Ingredients for easy chicken pasta recipe
You can substitute sweet potato for pumpkin if you prefer. For vegetarians, exclude the chicken for a delicious, healthy meal.
- 1x 500g packet of high fibre or pulse pasta
- Olive oil
- 300g pumpkin
- 2 tbs Greek yoghurt
- ½ cup parmesan cheese
- 500ml tomato passata sauce
- 1 brown onion, finely chopped
- 2 cloves of garlic crushed
- 2 tsp mixed herbs
- Additional veggies as desired: capsicum, carrot, zucchini
- 3 cups of spinach
- 2 chicken breasts, diced
How to cook our easy chicken pasta recipe
The beauty of this recipe is that you can prepare parts in advance, and streamline your meal prep. Pumpkin can be roasted in advance for a quick dinner.
- Preheat oven to 180˚C, chop pumpkin into 2cm pieces. Drizzle with olive oil, and roast pumpkin in oven.
- Pan fry diced chicken breast in large frying pan until golden brown. Remove from frying pan.
- Cook pasta to packet directions.
- Puree pumpkin and Greek yoghurt in a blender, or with a stick blender.
- Pan fry onion, garlic and herbs, and add additional vegetables. Return chicken to frying pan and add pasta, pumpkin mix, passata and simmer for 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
- Add parmesan and spinach and cook for a further 5 minutes until spinach is wilted. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese to serve.
And that’s it! Enjoy your delicious, healthy pasta dinner.
