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Roasted Vegetable and Chicken Pesto Pasta




I was sat on the phone to my mom yesterday and was telling her about my ridiculous cravings for pesto. Pesto has been all I've been thinking about since I saw some pesto pasta on Insta a few days ago, so you know... I had to have it. A few months ago I had an unfortunate incident with 'normal' pesto where I had a complete brain freeze and forgot it has about half a gallon of cheese in and suffered from the consequences and I've been a bit emotionally scarred since! Then I remembered I've seen pesto in the dairy free section of my local supermarket and that was that. I dragged my mildly hungover bum into Morrisons and grabbed some. It was £2.50 which I think is a bit steep but to banish a craving I'm totally on board. I had some veggies to use up and as I am currently in the midst of an roasted asparagus and broccoli moment I chucked them in alongside some chicken. A dead easy meal which I hope you'll enjoy, and if you're following slimming world- its only 3.5 syns a portion. This will make for 2 portions- perfect for a couples dinner or lunches to drag into work, or in my case, the library...

Ingredients                                                                               Equipment
Jar of dairy free pesto- I used Saclas Basil Pesto                 Chopping Board                   Oven
Any leftover vegetables you need to use up                        Saucepan                               Hob
Cooked chicken cut into cubes                                               Bowl                                        Colander
1 cup or 2 big handfuls of pasta                                             Baking Tray


Method
  1. Chop any veg and cooked chicken that you need to on your board
  2. Heat your oven to 180°C and put your vegetables on the baking tray. Pop them in the oven for about 15 minutes until soft and starting to crisp and go brown.
  3. Put your pasta into a saucepan of hot tapwater and put on the hob to boil until soft when poked through with a fork
  4. Drain your pasta using the colander and add back into the saucepan
  5. Add in your roasted vegetables and chunks of chicken and stir to combine
  6. Add into this 2 tablespoons of pesto and stir to combine again
  7. Plate up to serve (or put into lunch boxes)







Happy Eating!






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Spicy Chicken and Chorizo Stew

It's felt like years since we last blogged, even though it has only been little over a week! Life gets in the way sometimes, and quite a lot of the time it's pretty difficult to plan things to cook for the blog as I'm in Sheffield at Uni and Caitlin's at home. I feel like we are getting into the rhythm of blogging, not sounding too blunt and being a bit softer. Neither of us are that impressive with English (unlike our English obsessed sister) so it's still definitely a getting there process for us. I never want blogging for me or Caitlin to feel pressurised or not fun anymore. It's a hobby we can do together and I love that, considering we're apart for weeks at a time. So I'll stop boring you all with our lives and it's onto the recipe!
 
Whilst I was sat at work, I couldn't stop thinking about beans and chorizo. Considering one of my passionate food hells is baked beans I thought this was a bit coco bananas! But it got to the point where it was nigh on obsessive, and as I was due to go food shopping anyway I thought why the heck not buy some stuff and mash it together and see what happens! So what was created was the chicken and chorizo stew. I'm not really sure why it is called a stew, but to be honest I couldn't think of a more suitable name for this! It's based on tomato and has a heck lot of garlic and chilli in for flavour and a nice warm kick up the bum! I used a small tin of cannelloni beans for this, alongside some chorizo sausage and turkey (I used turkey as it was cheaper in the shops but can be made with either chicken or turkey!). It really filled me up and I missed the feeling of being full up but in a healthier way, and not just from KFC (which may or may not have been happening far too often recently). The tomato makes for a delicious base to the dish and everything else compliments beautiful, and would even taste delicious with added bacon or no chilli if you wished! Quite a lot of the amounts here are rough estimates, just splash however much you want in of everything to your own tastes! We hope you all enjoy!

Spicy Chicken and Chorizo Stew

Ingredients:
-splash of oil for the pan-
-500g chicken or turkey, diced-
-2 small chorizo sausages-
-50g onion-
-1 small tin of cannelloni beans-
-1 large tin of tomatoes-
-1 small tin of sweetcorn-
-30g tomato puree-
-30g crushed chilli-
-30g garlic puree-

Method to the madness:

1) Pop oil into pan, and add the diced meat, chorizo sausage and onions. Cook for 3-4 minutes until the meat is cooked through.

2) Add in the beans, sweetcorn and tomato, stir through.


3) Add in your garlic, tomato puree and chilli, stir again and simmer down for around 10 minutes.
 
Look at that beautiful uni hall stove, so pretty...

4) When reduced down, meat cooked and the flavour is what you require, take off the heat, pop in your bowl and tuck in!
 

So in under 20 minutes you should be left with a super simple, quick and hearty meal, enough to feed 2-3 people depending on sides! As you can see I enjoyed mine with a cider and I regret nothing!
 

We hope you enjoy!
 
Happy Baking!
 
xoxox

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