Lemon Chicken Pasta
Sat, Sep 10, 2011
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We liked our Clam Pasta from a while back so much that we made it with lemon chicken this time. It is a light and colorful pasta dish full of some of our favorite summer vegetables: zucchini, summer squash, peppers and tomatoes. Allow some time to chop all of the veggies {a step that can be done ahead of time} but other than that the pasta comes together quickly.
Lemon Chicken Pasta
Author: Itsy Bitsy Foodies
Recipe type: Main Course
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Serves: 4
This pasta dish is a great way to use summer vegetables such as tomatoes, zucchini and summer squash.
Ingredients
Lemon Chicken
- 1 pound chicken thighs or chicken breasts
- 1 lemon, juiced
- Salt, to taste
Pasta
- 3 chicken sausage links, cooked
- 3 slices of bacon
- 1 zucchini, cut into chunks
- 1 summer squash, cut into chunks
- 3 Roma tomatoes, cut into chunks
- 5 mushrooms, cut into chunks
- 1 head of garlic, minced
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 green bell pepper, chopped
- 1 pasilla pepper, chopped
- 3 serrano peppers, chopped, optional
- 1 pound of linguine, cooked and cut into 2-inch strips
- ½ cup feta cheese crumbles
- 2 cups beer or white wine
- 1-2 tsp paprika, to taste
- Handful of parsley, shredded
Instructions
Lemon Chicken
- In a pan lightly coated with cooking oil {or on a broiling pan in the oven} sear the chicken thighs for several minutes until browned on each side.
- Remove the thighs from the pan and chop them into bite-sized pieces.
- While you are cutting the chicken into chunks, add the juice of one lemon to the pan and let it begin to simmer over medium heat.
- Add the chicken chunks and continue cooking them in the lemon juice until they are fully cooked, adding some salt to taste.
Pasta
- Cook the bacon until it is crispy.
- Chop it into bits and set it aside.
- Cook the linguine noodles according to the directions on the package.
- Cut the chicken sausage into chunks.
- Lightly coat a pan with olive oil and saute the chopped vegetables for several minutes or until they are tender.
- Add the beer or white wine, chunks of chicken sausage and the cooked chicken and let the mixture simmer for 5-10 minutes.
- Toss with Parmesan cheese, feta cheese and bacon bits.
- Serve the pasta sauce over the cooked linguine or toss it together with the noodles.
Tags: chicken, linguine, pasta, summer squash, summer veggies, zucchini
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