Creamy BBQ Chicken Pasta
with Penne and Green Onions
This one's for all the BBQ lovers out there! Creamy penne topped with cajun-spiced and BBQ-slathered chicken thighs, stirred with savoury peppers, and finished with green onions, makes for a decadent and memorable dinner.
Ingredients: Chicken thighs • Penne pasta (durum wheat semolina, niacin, ferrous sulphate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid) (wheat) • Poblano pepper • BBQ sauce (sugars (sugar/glucose-fructose, blackstrap molasses, brown sugar), tomato paste, vinegar, water, salt, modified corn starch, mustard, modified tapioca starch, mustard bran, chili peppers, soybean oil, garlic powder, onion powder, hydrolyzed corn protein, spices, seasoning, natural flavour, xanthan gum, caramel, citric acid, malic acid, sodium benzoate) (mustard) • 35% Cream (cream, milk, dextrose, cellulose gel, carrageenan, mono and diglycerides, cellulose gum, polysorbate 80, sodium citrate, disodium phosphate) (milk) • Cream cheese (milk ingredients, modified milk ingredients, salt, bacterial culture, lactic acid, guar gum, carob bean gum, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate) (milk) • Cajun spice blend (dehydrated vegetables (garlic, onion), paprika powder, spices and herbs, corn starch, cayenne pepper, canola oil, oleoresin paprika, silicon dioxide) • Green onion.
The quantities provided above are averages only.
Produced in a facility that processes milk, sesame, eggs, fish, shellfish, crustaceans, mustard, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybean and sulphites.
Ingredients
280 g
Chicken Thighs
170 g
Penne
(Contains: Wheat)
4 tbsp
BBQ Sauce
(Contains: Mustard May contain traces of: Gluten, Sulphites, Egg, Wheat, Sesame, Crustaceans, Soy, Fish, Milk)
5 g
Cajun Spice Blend
(May contain traces of: Milk, Mustard, Tree nuts, Peanuts, Sesame, Soy, Sulphites, Wheat)
1 unit(s)
Cream Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
1 unit(s)
Hot Pepper
56 mL
Cream
(Contains: Milk)
2 unit(s)
Green Onion
Not included in your delivery
2 tbsp
Butter*
(Contains: Milk)
0.13 tsp
Pepper*
¼ tsp
Salt*
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
- Before starting, preheat the broiler to high.
- To a large pot, add 10 cups water and 1 tbsp salt (use same for 4 servings). Cover and bring to a boil over high.
- Wash and dry all produce.
- Core, then cut pepper into 1/4-inch strips.
- Thinly slice green onion.
- Pat chicken dry with paper towels, then season with salt and half the Cajun Spice Blend.
- To the boiling water, add penne. Cook for 12-14 min, until tender but still firm to the bite.
- Reserve 1/2 cup (1 cup) pasta water.
- Strain penne, then return to the pot, off heat.
- Heat a large non-stick pan over medium-high.
- When hot, add 1 tbsp (2 tbsp) butter, then swirl the pan until melted.
- Add chicken. Sear for 1-2 min, until golden. Transfer to a foil-lined baking sheet, skin-side down.
- Spoon half the BBQ sauce over chicken.
- Broil chicken in the middle of the oven for 6-8 min, until cooked through.**
- Reheat the same pan over medium.
- Add 1 tbsp (2 tbsp) butter, then peppers. Season with salt and pepper. Cook for 1-2 min, stirring occasionally, until slightly softened.
- Add cream cheese and remaining Cajun Spice Blend, then stir for 30 sec to coat.
- To the pan with pepper mixture, add reserved pasta water, cream and remaining BBQ sauce. Cook, whisking often, until sauce comes to a simmer.
- Simmer for 2-3 min, stirring often, until sauce thickens slightly.
- Add penne and half the green onions. Cook for 1-2 min, stirring often, until sauce coats pasta. Season with salt and pepper, if you like.
- Thinly slice chicken.
- Divide penne between bowls. Top with chicken.
- Sprinkle remaining green onions over top.