Pumpkin, Bacon and Chicken Pasta

By request, I am blogging this super simple family dinner. This recipe is not glamorous. This recipe is not packed full of veggies. This recipe does contain pasta – something that is not all that common in this house.

This recipe WILL provide you with a quick dinner that actually gets eaten. It’s kind of like pasta soup!

Note: there are traditional and thermomix friendly instructions for the pumpkin puree.

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Pumpkin, Bacon and Chicken Pasta

Servings

Ingredients

• Two rashers of bacon sliced thinly
• Leftover roast chicken shredded
• 100 g cubed feta
• spelt pasta enough to feed your family
• 1 onion chopped
• 3 garlic cloves crushed
• 750 g pumpkin cubed
• 150 g chicken stock or water and a good crack of salt and pepper if you don’t have it

Servings Ingredients Two rashers of bacon sliced thinly Leftover roast chicken shredded 100 g cubed feta spelt pasta enough to feed your family 1 onion chopped 3 garlic cloves crushed 750 g pumpkin cubed 150 g chicken stock or water and a good crack of salt and pepper if you don’t have it

Instructions

1. Cook your pasta according to packet instructions, drain and add to a big mixing bowl.
2. Place your onion, garlic, pumpkin and chicken stock in a saucepan and cover with a lid. Bring it to a simmer and then turn the heat down to allow it to steam and cook through.
3. Check with a knife after ten minutes to see if the pumpkin is soft. If not, then stir and keep cooking gently. You want translucent onion and pumpkin beautifully soft.
4. Fry off your bacon in a saucepan and add to cooked pasta
5. Add shredded chicken to bacon and pasta.
6. Once cooked, puree pumpkin with a stick blender or blender. and add to pasta, bacon and chicken.
7. Serve with feta sprinkled over the top.

If you have a thermomix:

1. Place 1 halved onion and 3 garlic cloves in the bowl and chop speed 7, 3 seconds.
2. Add 750g cubed pumpkin and 150g chicken stock and cook on speed 1, 100 degrees, 15 minutes.
3. Puree at speed 9 for 30 seconds.

Recipe Notes

Ways to pimp this meal:

Use zucchini noodles instead of pasta.
Add a sprinkle of dulse flakes on top of pasta.
Use half pumpkin and half zucchini as the sauce to get another veggie in.
In fact – combine any two or three veggies instead of the 750g pumpkin. Just ensure all are cooked through before blending.
Use any meat combo you like – chorizo would also be lovely.

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