Chicken Spinach Parmesan Pasta

Cook this for a great one pot recipe that everyone will enjoy. This recipe serves 2, but can be adjusted to serve as many as you want. Do step 2 the prep work early in the day and store in a container in the refrigerator. That way you can be enjoying a glass of nice wine with family and friends instead of cutting things up. I use the Barilla Protein+ spaghetti and would highly recommend it. We started eating the Barilla Protein+ pastas about 10 years ago. It is the only pasta I cook now.

Ingredients

• 1 Chicken Breast cut into cubes
• 2 chopped fresh tomatoe
• 1 1/2 tablespoons butter
• 2 cloves chopped garlic
• 1/2 chopped Jalapeno pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon Dash salt-free garlic & Herb seasoning blend
• 6 oz spaghetti or whatever amount you would normally cook for dinner.
• 1 5.5 ounce bag of fresh spinach
• 1 1/4 cups freshly grated Parmesan cheese

If you want to do some preparation in advance you can:

1. Cut your chicken breast into cubes
2. Chop your tomatoes
3. Chop your garlic
4. Chop your jalepeno

And store in one container in the refrigerator with the Dash salt-free garlic & Herb seasoning blend sprinkled on top:

Directions to prepare and serve:

1. Add water to a large pot and bring to a boil
2. While waiting for water to boil prepare your other ingredients, if you have not done the advance preparation. I normally do not Grate the Parmesan cheese earlier. So now is a good time to grate the parmesan cheese and refrigerate.
   1. Cut your chicken breast into cubes
   2. Chop your tomatoes
   3. Chop your garlic
   4. Chop your jalepeno
   5. Grate your Parmesan cheese.
3. Add the pasta to the boiling water
4. Cook until al dente.
5. Remove 3/4 cup of the pasta water before draining pasta.
6. Drain the pasta and leave in the colander.
7. Using the same pot
   1. Melt butter over medium heat
   2. Add
      1. The advanced prepared ingredients or
      2. The chopped garlic, chopped tomatoes, cubed chicken, chopped jalepeno and Dash seasoning blend
8. Cook 25 minutes
9. Add the pasta
10. Add the spinach
11. Cook until spinach is soft and cooked adding reserved pasta water as needed to keep pasta from drying out.
12. Add grated parmesan cheese and toss until combined and melted slightly.
13. Serve the pasta on individual plates, in a large bowl for table serving, or place pot right on the table.
14. Grate extra parmesan cheese on top if desired. I personally find there is plenty in the spaghetti and don’t need any on the top.

Today’s product recommendations are for cooking and storing: 1) KitchenAid Grater and storage container is fantastic. I have bought cheaper ones and they actually bend if you use them a lot with hard cheese, and 2) I really love the Snapware Pyrex storage containers. Here’s the Amazon links to these products:

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