Chicken Pasta Bake

[Shazbutt]

I feel like a pasta bake tonight, with chicken in it, and usually use a packet one, but don't have one in the pantry! (I can't go buy one as i'm an hour out of town :rolleyes:).

Does anyone have a good recipe, that's not a herby one, but more cheesy/bacony? And has vegies in it?

I'm just not game enough to make one up myself....being pregnant i'm fussy at the moment, LOL

TIA!

[DivinelySophistimicated]

I usually just add cooked pasta, cooked bacon, cooked chicken cubes and mix up a tin of tomatoes with a white sauce (flour, butter, milk), then top with cheese. ITs yum and simple

[Shazbutt]

Oh, i should have put in no tomatoes...don't like tomatoey ones. But thankyou :).

[DivinelySophistimicated]

hehe ok, well you can make it a white sauce and add some garlic if you have some. I also forget to add just chuck in your chopped/frozen veges too!!

So basically just use a garlic, white sauce as your base!!

[EsSjAy]

Yeah mines similair....

4 Cups of Pasta (just cooked)
2 Chicken breasts
6 rashes of bacon
Tomato paste (or tom sauce)
1 Lrg tub cream


Cook the chopped chicken and bacon together...
Drain... then add a large tub of cream and either a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste, tomato sauce (if your desperate... it's still yum...)
Season with salt & pepper and taste to make sure your happy with the flavor...
If you like it more tomatoey just add more....
I know you don't want it herby BUT if you just add a 'hint' of basil, this brings the entire flavor out.... without the 'herby'-ness...
Put cooked pasta in a baking dish and add the chicken mix and stir around...
Add shredded cheese on top.....

I lived on this stuff when i was pregnant....
If you chose to give it a try, let mr know how you go....

[EsSjAy]

The great thing with this pasta bake is you do not need the tomato at all.....
the flavor is beautiful without it....
Traditionaly the tomato is called a 'alforne'... Without the tomato its' more like a carbornara....
It's really yummy.... promise...

You can add as many or as little veggies as you like.... eggplants, zucchini, carrots are really yum, but any veg is fine...

[Shazbutt]

Hmm, that one sounds good, nice and creamy! :yes: I'll see what else i get by the end of the day, otherwise i'll give it a go, thankyou!

[EsSjAy]

Hmm, that one sounds good, nice and creamy! :yes: I'll see what else i get by the end of the day, otherwise i'll give it a go, thankyou!

:thumbsup:....

Beware....You'll never have another bake that's quite the same!!!:laughing:...:laughing: