Warm chicken and chorizo pasta

[cookie1]

Tam made it Cookie, check back a bit 

Not looking carefully enough Judy. I must read more slowly, remembering that I am not studying. 

[maddy]

Simple & delicious 
To make it even quicker, I used smoked chicken breast & cooked the rigatoni on the stove.



I cooked the chorizo for 8 minutes, and then added the smoked chicken & cooked a further 2 minutes.
Reserved 1/2 cup of the pasta water, and mixed it  through the pasta with 4 Tbsp. of basil pesto (as I had no fresh basil), then added the meat & pine nuts.
Next time I will probably add another chorizo sausage, or more smoked chicken.

[MEP]

Great recipe and something my fussy 3yr old might enjoy I think.  Thanks, will give this a try soon.

[merl81]

We love this recipe in our house. Have made it a number of occasions, including a night when we had family over and I wanted to impress them. They all loved it too. Our daughter (3&5yrs) prefer to eat just the "garlicy" pasta, chicken and pinenuts, but we don't mind as it leave more chorizo for us!! Great recipe and would recommend for others to try.

[cookie1]

We had this tonight and loved it. It is definitely on the make again list.

[deedub]

I made this the other night using prawns instead of chicken - yum!