This document provides a recipe for a chicken and vegetable pasta pie that serves 4-5 people. It involves boiling pasta until almost cooked, then layering it in a casserole dish along with sautéed chicken, mushrooms, potatoes, carrots and peas. Prego carbonara pasta sauce is poured over the layers, then hard boiled eggs and cheese are placed on top. The dish is covered with puff pastry and baked until golden brown. The recipe notes that this pie provides a nice change from rice and porridge, and pasta can easily be made into a meal using Prego sauces and adding meat and vegetables.
1. Ingredients:
Minced chicken, marinated in soy sauce, a bit of sugar, salt, pepper, sesame oil and ginger juice
1 bag of Prego’s Spiral Pasta
3 eggs
1 piece of puff pastry
Brown button mushrooms
3 slices of cheese
2. 1 carrot, diced
3 potatoes, diced
2 cloves of shallots, sliced
2 cloves of garlic, sliced
1/2 cup of peas
1 jar of Prego’s Carbonara Mushroom Pasta Sauce
Feeds 4-5 people
1. First, boil a pot of water. Add to water1/2 teaspoon of sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and 1 tablespoon
of garlic oil for taste. Boil pasta until it’s nearly cooked but not totally. (For al dente, I normally
boil for 8 minutes, but now I boil for 7 minutes. Drain and set aside.)
2. In another pot, heat about an inch of oil. Boil diced potatoes until golden brown. Again, they
don’t have to be totally cooked because we will be popping everything into the oven later.
3. 3. Add cubed carrots and fry until nearly done. Set aside.
4. In a wok, throw in two shallot cloves (sliced) and 2 cloves of garlic. Stir fry in sequence: sliced
button mushrooms, peas, and minced chicken. Set aside.
4. Add the diced potatoes and carrots for a last stir fry.
5. 4. In a casserole, put everything together – the pasta, chicken, mushrooms, peas, potatoes, carrots,
everything.
I alternated between layering pasta and the other yummies.5. Pour in Prego’s Carbonara Mushroom
Pasta Sauce all over.
6. Lay slices of hard boiled egg on top enough to cover the casserole bowl.
6. 7. On top of the eggs, lay sliced cheese. Any variety will do. I used light sandwich cheese cos I
don’t like anything too smelly hahaha.
8. Lay out the puff pastry. Brush one side with 1 egg white. Cover the dish with the pastry. You
can either trim the edges of the pastry with a knife, or be lazy like me and just fold it over itself.
9. Pop into preheated oven at 200 degrees C for 20 minutes, or until pastry is puffed and golden.
10. Remove from oven and enjoy!
Okay so my pie is not the most beautiful thing in the world. Hahahahaha.
But the kids and Fatty love it. In fact, this is a family of pasta lovers so we cook pasta
at home very often.
7. It’s a nice change from rice and porridge, and really you can cook it with anything – a lot of times
we make it with chicken or pork broth, add some chicken and random v egetables and call it a
meal. Or even easier, add meat to a Prego sauce and it’s a quick, proper plate of spaghetti
bolognese or carbonara.
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