Chicken Lemon Pasta

Name: Chicken Lemon Pasta
Total time: 25 min
Ingredients: 1 tbsp olive oil; 2 cloves garlic; 1/4 tsp black pepper; 1/2 unit lemon; 1 unit chicken breast; 1 unit leek; 3/4 cup light cream; 7 oz pasta; 4 leaves basil; 2 tbsp parmesan cheese; 1 tsp mustard; 4 cups chicken broth

ekilu Team

“This lemon pasta tastes like summer with its citrus touch and fresh herbs on top. It'll not only catch everyones eyes, but it'll be bursting with flavor at every bite. Try it, and you'll fall in love too!”

ingredients

Difficulty

Easy

Time

25'

Fresh ingredients

garlic

2 cloves

lemon

1/2 unit

chicken breast

1 unit

leek

1 unit

basil

4 leaves

parmesan cheese

2 tbsp

Pantry ingredients

olive oil

1 tbsp

black pepper

1/4 tsp

light cream

3/4 cup

pasta

7 oz

mustard

1 tsp

chicken broth

4 cups

Instructions

Wash the leek and cut into smaller pieces. Set aside.

Dice the chicken into medium size cubes. Add salt and pepper. Drizzle some olive oil into a deep pan and cook the chicken for 4 minutes on high heat. Remove the chicken from the pan and set aside.

Lower the heat and add the leek and chopped garlic into the same pan and cook for 4 minutes or until the garlic browns and the leek is a bit more tender.

Add the chicken to the pan that you had set aside, the chicken stock, and the cream. Mix well.

Add the pasta, stir with a wooden spoon and let all the ingredients cook for 15 minutes without covering with a lid. Mix occasionally so that the pasta doesn't burn.

Add the mustard and the juice from half a small lemon, sprinkle some dry basil and pepper to taste. Stir the ingredients.

Serve with grated parmesan cheese on top and enjoy!

Tips & Tricks

Take your pick and use either basil or fresh cilantro. Take into account that with the basil you will get a creamy and smooth flavor, and with the cilantro you will get a more herbal touch.

You can use whichever short pasta variety you have at your dispense.