Recipe Review Chicken Linguine QFEO page 95

[Nikkit]

I made the Chicken Linguine last night and everyone loved it. Really good flavours in it. And leftovers for lunch today - always a good thing   I will be making it again.

I would tweak it a little though...
next time I'll use less pasta and maybe a small pasta (like shells or similar) as I like more sauce less pasta, but that is my preference.
I had a 200ml carton of long life cream so tipped in the lot instead of having 50ml hanging in the back of the fridge to go off.
And I used 4 chicken thighs (all I had) and steamed them longer as they were still par frozen.
And we are cheese lovers, so I'd sprinkle a little grated parmesan on top.

[cookie1]

I've put a stick it note in my book to try this next week.

[Jamberie]

Yep, this is a weeknight winner!

I especially like that it can be on the table in around 30 minutes if you multitask and work fairly quickly (I used chicken tenderloins and while they were steaming, put boiling water from the kettle in a pot on the stove to cook the pasta and then prepared & measured the rest of the ingredients).
*I too think parmesan cheese would be a nice addition (and maybe bacon because bacon just makes everything better!)
*A can of tuna could easily be substituted for the chicken and would make it even quicker (especially if you use angel hair or another quick to cook pasta).
*Yes, lots of left overs (DH & I will have it for dinner tomorrow night and I'll even have leftovers for lunch too- always great for a weeknight)

-sorry no time for a photo tonight, I'll see how the leftovers look tomorrow 
Thanks for another great recipe Alyce

[cookie1]

We had this last night and it was very tasty.
I used chicken breast. I also used long life cream as that was all I had.
If I am making it for just the three of us I use only 200g pasta. I also cooked the chicken and broccoli and put them in the thermo server. I then cooked the sauce and poured it over the chicken and broccoli. I cooked the pasta last in the tmx , added it to the thermo server and stirred it together.

[rostess]

I'm just wondering if the sauce would freeze well? I made this tonight but only cooked half the amount of pasta and stirred it through half the sauce, as I realized there was no way we would get through it all. I thought I might be able to freeze the other half of the sauce but am not sure if the cream would separate when thawed.

[*suzanne*]

we had this again for dinner tonight its one of our favorites, I didn't have linguini so used penne also didn't have sun dried tomatoes so used capsicum strips also added some mushrooms it was really yummy and it's such a quick dinner to prepare

[judydawn]

Give it a go rostess, I freeze all types of sauces and they reheat quite OK.

[judydawn]

This recipe is one that you can do anything with as has been seen already from those who have made it using ingredients on hand.
I did what Cookie did, ie made the sauce then kept it warm in the thermosaver whilst I cooked the pasta in the TM bowl.  This saves an extra item to wash and keeps my stove top clean    Started off with boiling water so it only took 9 minutes to cook my pasta.

Here are my changes for 1/2 quantity of this recipe - I'll get 4 meals from mine.

I used fusilli pasta, sliced spinach from my garden, chicken stock powder instead of VSC, only 50g sundried tomatoes as I'm not keen on them (couldn't really notice them though so would perhaps stick to what the recipe called for next time), used cauliflower instead of broccoli and held that back to stir into the dish along with the pasta at the end, I used almost double quantity of evaporated milk as I had no cream and thickened it with 1 tblspn cornflour before adding the chicken etc back into the sauce. Topped it off with coriander and this gave it a real lift.

Delicious and I agree with the others that a sprinkling of parmesan wouldn't go astray either.  I'm going to test my theory that this might  be nice served as a salad - will have some for tea tonight and let you know about that.

Update - yes, this makes a lovely salad.  I added some sliced baby cos lettuce and just gave it a toss, very tasty.

[Kimmyh]

Lovely delicious dish that I will be making again. I made the full sauce with 300g spiral pasta (easier for children to eat) and we still have a heap of leftovers. I added capsicum and bacon as I didn't have any spinach and served it sprinkled with Parmesan. This is a photo after DH took a serve to work with him.

[judydawn]

Try the leftovers cold Kimmy, it's delicious that way too.

[cookie1]

It looks delicious Kimmy.

[Kimmyh]

Had leftovers cold tonight. Still tasty. Thanks for the tip Judy.