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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Lemon Chicken Pasta (7 Points)

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

  • Servings: 4
  • 4 teaspoons whole grain mustard
  • 2 tablespoons honey
  • 4 skinless chicken breasts, on the bone
  • 1 head garlic, broken into cloves but not peeled (yes, whole bulb)
  • 4 red onions, cut into 8 wedges each
  • 4 sprigs rosemary
  • 1 lemon, quartered
  • 10 fluid ounces chicken stock
  • 12 ounces pasta
  • salt
  • fresh ground black pepper

Recipe

  • 1 preheat the oven to gas mark 6, 200°c, 400°f.
  • 2 mix together the mustard and honey and spread on top of each chicken breast.
  • 3 place the breasts in a deep baking tray with the garlic cloves, onion wedges and rosemary leaves.
  • 4 squeeze the lemon juice over the top and place the left over lemon peel in the tray too.
  • 5 pour over the stock and season.
  • 6 cover with foil and bake in the oven for 45 minutes, before removing the foil for another 5 minutes.
  • 7 meanwhile cook the pasta in plenty of salted, boiling water and drain.
  • 8 remove the lemon peel from the baking tray and discard.
  • 9 remove the chicken breasts.
  • 10 toss the cooked past with the vegetables and juices in the oven tray.
  • 11 serve each portion of pasta topped with a chicken breast, sliced.

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