Chicken and pasta casserole
 
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Australian
Serves: 6
Ingredients
  • 250 gm pasta
  • 2 tblsp oil
  • 1 chopped onion
  • 500 gm chicken breast
  • 1 green capsicum
  • 2 sticks celery
  • 1 chicken stock cube
  • 1 cup water
  • ½ teaspoon oregano
  • 300 ml cream
  • 340 gm asparagus cuts (drained)
  • 1 cup grated tasty cheese
Method
  1. Cook pasta 10 mins uncovered in boiling water, until tender.
  2. Drain, rinse under cold water, drain again and set aside.
  3. Heat oil in frying pan. Add chopped onion and cook until transparent and soft.
  4. Remove onion from pan and set onion aside.
  5. Cut chicken into 2 cm chunks and cook in frying pan.
  6. When cooked, add the cooked onion, chopped capsicum, chopped celery, water, crumbled stock cube and oregano to the cooked chicken in the pan.
  7. Heat 5 mins.
  8. Add cream and asparagus to the mixture and cook until heated through.
  9. Spoon half the mixture over the base of an ovenproof dish.
  10. Top with the pasta, then the remaining chicken mixture.
  11. Sprinkle cheese on top.
  12. Bake in moderate oven (170C) 30 minutes.
Recipe by Firedaughter at https://www.firedaughter.site/chicken-and-pasta-casserole/