Baked pasta with chicken, chorizo and tomato
Recipe for creamy baked pasta with a spicy tomato sauce, chorizo, chicken and mozzarella.
Servings 4 people
Calories 915kcal
Ingredients
- 150 g chorizo, diced
- 400 g chicken breast, diced
- 400 g pasta
- 250 g aubergine, diced
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 3 tbsp tomato purée
- 2 tins chopped tomatoes (or polpa)
- 200 ml cream whipping or cooking cream
- 1 tsp dried basil
- 7 sprigs fresh basil, leaves picked
- 150 g grated mozzarella
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- Oil
- Pasta water
Instructions
- Heat a saucepan or deep frying pan over a medium heat and fry the chorizo for a couple of minutes until it releases some of its fat.
- Add the chicken, season with salt and freshly ground pepper and fry for 2-3 minutes. Set aside on a plate.
- In the same pan, fry the aubergine and onion until the onion is translucent - add a little oil if needed, and season with salt and freshly ground pepper. Meanwhile, cook the pasta for a couple of minutes less than al dente - reserve the pasta water.
- Add the garlic and tomato purée and heat through briefly, then pour in the chopped tomatoes, cream and dried basil.
- Stir the chicken and chorizo into the sauce and heat through for a couple of minutes, then toss the pasta in the sauce together with the fresh basil leaves, adding a couple of hundred millilitres of the pasta water as well.
- Spread half of the pasta mixture in an ovenproof dish and sprinkle half of the cheese on top. Top with the rest of the pasta and the remaining mozzarella, and bake in a preheated conventional oven (top and bottom heat) at 200°C for about 15-20 minutes.
- Leave the dish to settle for 15 minutes before serving.
Nutrition
Calories: 915kcal | Carbohydrates: 86g | Protein: 52g | Fat: 39g | Saturated Fat: 21g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Trans Fat: 0.01g | Cholesterol: 174mg | Sodium: 470mg | Potassium: 992mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 1445IU | Vitamin C: 8mg | Calcium: 269mg | Iron: 3mg