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Easy Chicken Pasta

This year I’ve made the Steggles pledge to #MakeTime for my loved ones by having more family meals together at the dining table!

We get so caught up in routine and it can be so chaotic in the evenings that we usually have three different mealtimes and eating areas – the girls eating on the high chairs in the kitchen while I prepare dinner for everyone else, the boys eating at their kids table, then @mrtwinsandablog and I eating on the couch once the kids have gone to bed!

Growing up, I remember eating at the table together with my family every night and it was a great way to connect and spend time as a family every day!

I made a @Steggles roast chicken in the morning, had a busy day then quickly put together the pasta ingredients in the afternoon so we could eat dinner together.

What do you pledge for this year? More time for mindfulness, more time for cooking at home, or more time for loved ones? #sp

 

Easy Chicken Pasta

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Ingredients

  • 1.9kg @Steggles Family Roast Chicken
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • 5 sprigs fresh rosemary
  • Olive oil
  • 2 tbsp taco seasoning
  • 500gm Farfalle pasta (cooked)
  • 2 cups frozen peas/carrots/corn (cooked)
  • 200ml sour cream
  • Salt and pepper to season

Instructions

1

Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Place chicken in a roasting pan.

2

Stuff garlic cloves + 4 sprigs rosemary in chicken cavity.

3

Rub chicken with oil, taco seasoning rosemary (remove leaves from sprig).

4

Cover with foil and bake for 1 hour 15 mins.

5

Remove foil and bake for a further 15 minutes to brown the skin.

6

Remove chicken from oven and allow to cool.

7

Once cooled, shred half the chicken and stir together with pasta, frozen vegetables, sour cream and salt & pepper.

Notes

You can use the whole chicken or half the chicken - I like to use the other half of the chicken for chicken sandwiches/pizza/toasties the next day!

January 17, 2019 By
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Main Meal/ Thermomix

Vegemite and Cheese Pasta Sauce

This is a huge hit with the whole family, especially with the boys who have been a little fussy lately!! A decade ago, I would make a quick dinner with pasta, and stirring butter, Vegemite and some grated Parmesan cheese through (YUM!)! This version is super easy, and is a thick and creamy pasta sauce with a huge explosion of flavour!!

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Add all ingredients to bowl.

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Cook 11 minutes/90 degrees/Speed 4.

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Stir through cooked pasta and serve.

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Vegemite and Cheese Pasta Sauce

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Serves: 4-6

Ingredients

  • 500 grams milk
  • 100 grams tasty cheese
  • 100 grams parmesan cheese
  • 50 grams butter
  • 50 grams cornflour
  • 50 grams Vegemite

Instructions

1

Add all ingredients to bowl.

2

Cook 11 minutes/90 degrees/Speed 4.

3

Stir through cooked pasta and serve.

Notes

*This amount of sauce is perfect to serve with 1 x 500 gram packet of pasta (cooked as per packet).

January 15, 2017 By
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Main Meal/ Non Thermomix

Slow Cooked Kangaroo Ragu

I love a good pasta ragu! This Kangaroo ragu is amazing as the slow cooking breaks down the lean meat resulting in a very healthy and delicious pasta sauce! It has a ‘wild game’ flavour which gives the sauce a very rich meaty depth of flavour (you either love it or hate it!) – and I just looove it!!!

Kangaroo is one of my favourite red meats! It is super lean and high in protein. Because it is really lean meat with little to no fat, it is best served rare to medium rare – which is my favourite ‘degree of doneness’ for meat…well… I am known to order my steak ‘blue’ too!

Kangaroo meat is readily available at some butchers, Coles/Woolworths.

I haven’t tried this in the Thermomix – I figure I need to justify the existence of my other kitchen appliances, like my slow cooker! Plus, I like to leave it slow cooking for most of the day, which frees up my Thermomix for other things! If you don’t have a slow cooker, you can also use a big pot on the stove.

Some recipes cook and brown the vegetables and meat on a frying pan before putting it in the slow cooker – but I like shortcuts, so just chuck everything straight into the slow cooker! The longer the better, resulting in the meat just falling apart and making a beautiful delicious sauce!

You can also use this recipe for any other game meat i.e. venison, or even beef to make a delicious and hearty slow cooked ragu served with pasta (or mash!)

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Add all ingredients into slow cooker…
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…stir together  and cook on high for 4 to 8 hours…the longer the better (if using a pot on stovetop, bring to the boil then cook on low to medium heat).
 
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(after 8 hours…)
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Using tongs, remove kangaroo pieces from the mixture, discard the bay leaves…
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…and shred the kangaroo meat with a fork.
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Pour the remaining sauce into a saucepan and bring the sauce to a boil. Reduce the sauce on low to medium heat.
 
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Once the sauce thickens, add the shredded kangaroo meat…
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…and stir through. 
 
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Stir through cooked pasta, season with salt and pepper, and serve.
 
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Slow Cooked Kangaroo Ragu

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Cooking Time: 4 hours (min)

Ingredients

  • 500 grams Kangaroo steak (diced)
  • 2 x 400 gram cans diced tomato
  • 500 grams beef stock
  • 1 onion (diced)
  • 2 carrots (diced)
  • 1 teaspoon minced garlic
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 1 tablespoon dijon mustard
  • 4 bay leaves
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • Cooked pasta (500 gram pack)

Instructions

1

Add all ingredients into slow cooker, stir together, and cook on high for 4 to 8 hours...the longer the better (if using a pot on stovetop, bring to the boil then cook on low to medium heat).

2

Using tongs, remove kangaroo pieces from the mixture, discard the bay leaves, and shred the kangaroo meat with a fork.

3

Pour the remaining sauce into a saucepan and bring the sauce to a boil. Reduce the sauce on low to medium heat.

4

Once the sauce thickens, add the shredded kangaroo meat, and stir through.

5

Stir through cooked pasta, season with salt and pepper, and serve.

July 6, 2016 By
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Main Meal/ Non Thermomix

Easy Carbonara Pasta Sauce (Non Thermomix Recipe)

This is another pasta sauce I’ve been making for many years and is a favourite with my immediate and extended family, so I make it for most family events as it is great for a side dish. It is also great to make for weekday dinners with leftovers for lunch/dinner the next day! This is super quick and easy and is one of those recipes I make if I can’t think what else to make as it is always delicious!
I always have bacon in the freezer, so I usually put anywhere from 250 to 500 grams in this recipe (depending on how meaty I feel like having it) – I chose 300 grams for the recipe below. You could also add chicken and fry it with the bacon, or even add leftover roast chicken to bulk it up.
I usually use penne or fettucine pasta’s with this (depends what I feel like or what I have in the pantry!)
I make this in the frying pan (instead of Thermomix) as I loved bacon when it’s fried and charred/smokey and it brings a depth of flavours with the garlic and onion – mmmmmm!!
Easy Carbonara Pasta Sauce Ingredients
Easy Carbonara Pasta Sauce simmering
Serve with any type of pasta and top with parmesan cheese
This sauce is perfect for 1 x standard 500gm packet of pasta. I made this to go with a (3 – 4 serving) batch of homemade penne pasta in my new Philips Pasta machine – soooo delicious!!!

Easy Carbonara Pasta Sauce (Non Thermomix Recipe)

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Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon Rice Bran Oil
  • 1 tablespoon minced garlic
  • 1 x brown onion (diced)
  • Approx. 300 grams short cut bacon (cut into 1/2cm strips)
  • 1 x 600ml bottle thickened cream
  • 1 x handful of chopped fresh parsley or 1-2 teaspoons of dried parsley flakes
  • Salt and Pepper to taste
  • 1 x handful of shredded parmesan cheese

Instructions

1

In a medium to large frying pan, heat the rice bran oil on high heat.

2

Add the minced garlic and fry till browned.

3

Add the diced onion and fry till browned.

4

Add the bacon strips and fry till browned/shrunken in size.

5

Add the thickened cream and turn to low heat and simmer for 10 minutes. 

6

Add the parsley, salt and pepper and simmer on low until ready to serve.

7

Cook and stir through pasta and top with parmesan cheese.

December 1, 2015 By
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Healthy/ Main Meal/ Non Thermomix

Smoked Salmon Pasta (Non Thermomix Recipe)

This is a dish that I’ve been making for years! Even though my husband is super meat loving, this is one of his favourite dishes and he regularly requests this for lunch or dinner.
You can use any type of pesto (basil pesto). I’ve tried many types of store bought pesto, and the Sacla Classic Pesto is our favourite and tastes amazing with the smoked salmon and avocado. It comes in a 190 gram bottle.
It is best served fresh, so usually I make enough for my husband, myself and the 2 boys (so approx. 3 servings).
It is a cold/room temperature pasta dish so is something that I also make for parties as it is easy to make beforehand as a side dish. 
Ingredients
 
Diced avocado
Add salmon, avocado, pine nuts, pesto and cheese to large bowl
Run cold water over pasta to cool down
Stir ingredients all together in large bowl
Enjoy! 🙂  
Smoked Salmon Pasta
 

Smoked Salmon Pasta

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Serves: 3-4

Ingredients

  • 250 grams farfelle or penne pasta
  • 250-300gm smoked salmon (torn up in small pieces by hand)
  • Approx. 190 grams Basil Pesto (or Sacla Classic Pesto)
  • 1 x avocado (diced)
  • 1/4 cup pine nuts (toasted or untoasted)
  • 1/4 cup parmesan cheese (grated/shredded) and a little more to sprinkle on top

Instructions

1

Boil pasta as per instructions in salted water.

2

In the meantime, place smoked salmon, pesto, avocado, pine nuts and parmesan in a large bowl.

3

Once pasta has cooked al dente, place in a sieve/colander and run under cold tap water and stir around until all pasta is cooled.

4

Shake off excess water from the pasta in the sieve/colander, place in the large bowl and stir together.

5

Serve and sprinkle with parmesan cheese on top.

6

Notes

You can double, triple, quadruple etc this recipe depending on how many people you want to feed. This is also a great side pasta salad for parties!

August 19, 2015 By
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Main Meal/ Non Thermomix

Creamy Chorizo Pasta (non Thermomix recipe)

No matter how amazing the Thermomix is, you can’t beat a good pan fried crunchy Chorizo! …sorry Thermie! 🙁

I have tried chorizo pasta in the Thermomix (the one off the Basic Cookbook TM5 chip) and the Thermomix just blitzes it all up… it’s just not the same…yes, super tasty, but it’s just a bit ‘dog foody’… some things just aren’t meant to be blitzed up…

This is my ‘signature’ creamy chorizo pasta sauce that I make about once a week for my family, and the leftovers are even tastier for lunch/dinner the next day.

 We also use the leftovers to put inside our $7.50 Kmart Sandwich Jaffle Maker with some cheese. So so so good!!

Chorizo Pasta Jaffle

You can use any type of good quality Chorizo, but I only use the Barossa Fine Foods brand which I get from the Costco deli section, as I find it the tastiest with the right amount of spiciness. It’s probably on a medium scale for spiciness which gives an added depth to the flavours but not unbearable that you’re sipping water in between, however it would be way too spicy for the kids.

Added Chorizo before browning

Chorizo after browning

Simmering Sauce

Tip: To avoid wastage with the tinned tomatoes (there is always some that gets stuck on the side of the tin), add some water into about 1/4 of the tin, swirl around and pour into the sauce.

I make this in the afternoon before the kids bedtime routine, so that after they go to bed I just need to boil up the pasta, which I love freshly cooked and al dente.

Creamy Chorizo Pasta

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Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp rice bran oil
  • 1 tbsp minced garlic
  • 1 red onion (sliced)
  • 500 grams good quality Chorizo - approx. 4 (sliced lengthways, then chopped up into 1cm pieces widthwise)
  • 2 x 400 grams tin of diced tomatoes
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 200 mls thickened cream
  • 1 tsp dried oregano
  • A handful of chopped fresh parsley
  • (Optional) Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

1

In a medium to large frying pan, heat up the rice bran oil on high heat.

2

Add the minced garlic and fry till browned.

3

Add the red onion and fry till browned/caramelised.

4

Add the chorizo and fry till browned/crispy and slightly shrunken in size.

5

Add the diced tomatoes and sugar, reduce to a low heat and simmer for 10 minutes.

6

Add the thickened cream and keen simmering for another 10 minute

7

Add the oregano, parsley and simmer on low until ready to serve.

8

Serve with pasta. This sauce is perfect for 1 x standard packet of pasta. I stir through the whole batch of pasta with the sauce so there's an even distribution (rather than how some people individually serve the cooked pasta and spoon the sauce on top of it)

Notes

Note 1: I find that the Barossa branded chorizo has enough saltiness/spiciness so I don't need to season with salt and pepper. Note 2: This is DELICIOUS with gnocchi too! Note 3: Tastes better the day after!!! 🙂

August 8, 2015 By
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