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This Chicken and Bacon Pasta Bake is sure to be an instant hit with the entire family. 

Serves: 6

Recipe from ‘Symply Too Good To Be True- Book 7′

Ingredients

  • 1½ cups raw macaroni
  • 1 bunch asparagus
  • Cooking spray
  • 90g short cut bacon, diced
  • 400g skinless chicken breast, diced
  • 1½ cups carrots, diced
  • 1 teaspoon crushed garlic (in jar)
  • ¼ cup water
  • ¾ cup onion, diced
  • 2 cups mushrooms cut in quarters
  • 1 x 375ml can evaporated light milk
  • 2 x sachets cream of chicken cup-a-soup (Continental®)
  • 1 teaspoon dried oregano
  • ¼ teaspoon cracked black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon cornflour
  • 1 cup skim milk
  • ½ cup 25% reduced-fat tasty cheese freshly grated

Method

  1. Preheat oven 180ºC fan forced.
  2. Cook macaroni as instructed on packet. Leave to one side. Trim about 5cm from thick end of asparagus spears and throw ends away, then cut spears into 3cm pieces and leave to one side.
  3. In a large frypan that has been coated with cooking spray, brown bacon pieces. Remove into a medium size bowl.
  4. Coat frypan with cooking spray then brown diced chicken, place into bowl with bacon and leave to one side. Sauté carrots and garlic in frypan, add water and cook 3 minutes. Add onion and cook a further 2 minutes. Toss in mushrooms and cook for another 2 minutes.
  5. Place bacon and chicken back into pan then pour in evaporated milk. Combine soup mix, oregano, pepper and cornflour with skim milk in a small bowl then pour into pan. Stir frequently until boiled.
  6. Add cooked pasta to pan and fold together well. Toss asparagus through mix then pour into a large lasagne dish that has been coated with cooking spray. Level mixture then sprinkle cheese over top. Bake 30 minutes.

Variation:

Replace asparagus with either ¾ cup frozen peas or ¾ cup green capsicum diced.

Suitable to be frozen for 2-3 weeks.

Dietitian’s Tip: Asparagus is packed with antioxidants, ranking it among the top fruits and vegetables for its ability to neutralise cell-damaging free radicals. Research suggests that this slows down the ageing process.

Nutritional Information per serve

Fat
Total 9.2g
Saturated 4.2g
Kilojoules 1621 (387 cal)
Fibre 3.3g
Protein 33.2g
Carbs 42.4g
Sugar 15.3g
Sodium 582mg
GI Rating Low

Annette’s cookbooks SYMPLY TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE 1-7 are sold in all good newsagencies.

 

  • Gosh I love a good pasta bake

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  • This is my easy dinner all the time.

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  • I used to love pasta but my son now has to do the cooking and most meals come with pasta so I’m over it. This does look delicious and so easy to make though. Will pass it on

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  • I would make this for the boys in the house!

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  • Love a pasta bake and this looks delicious!

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  • Sounds and looks different and I’m not sure about all the ingredients and would have to change some so I don’t get sick.

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  • This does look great and full of goodies too. I can also imagine throwing in any other veggies that I have in the fridge or pantry.

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  • This Chicken and Bacon Pasta Bake looks delicious. Love the type of pasta used.

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  • A lovely hearty winter style meal

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  • Saving this for later! Sounds delish!

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  • Very nice. Thank you for sharing

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  • Looks lovely and hearty and yummy.

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  • This is a different variant of pasta bake and, I must say, a very healthy and delicious one at that

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  • What a great new pasta bake for me to try. We are fans of various kinds of pasta bake in our home, so I love the chance to try something new.

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  • Looks and sounds great. Thanks for sharing.

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