Healthy Chicken Cacciatore Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups pasta shapes (spiral or bows), to make 2 cups cooked
- spray olive or canola oil spray
- 200 g skinless chicken breast, chopped
- 1/2 onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 capsicum, chopped
- 100 g mushroom, chopped
- 1 x 400 g can no-added-salt diced tomatoes
- 1 tomato, chopped
- 2 tbs salt-reduced tomato sauce
- 1/4 cup olives
- 1 sprinkle chilli flake, optional
- 1/2 cup basil leaves
Method
- Cook pasta according to packet instructions. Drain well and set aside.
- Place a large non-stick frypan on high heat and spray with oil. Add chicken and stir-fry for 4 minutes until browned but not completely cooked. Remove chicken from pan and set aside.
- In the same pan, cook onion till softened, stirring often. Add garlic, capsicum, mushrooms and and fresh tomato and cook for another3 minutes.
- Add tinned tomatoes, chicken and olives, season with chilli flakes and simmer for 5 minutes or longer if times permits.
- Mix cooked pasta and basil through sauce and serve with black pepper.
*To make this dish gluten free, use gluten free pasta or noodles
Healthy tip!
Chilli, lemon and herbs add flavour - great alternatives to butter and salt!
Nutrition Information
| per serving | per 100g | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 2154 kJ | 297 kJ |
| 515 Cal | 71 Cal | |
| Protein | 48 g | 7 g |
| Fat, total | 6 g | 1 g |
| — saturated | 1 g | 0.2 g |
| Carbohydrate | 58 g | 8 g |
| — sugars | 20 g | 3 g |
| Sodium | 641 mg | 88 mg |
| Fibre | 13 g | 2 g |
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Comments (3)
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Delicious and plenty of leftovers!
Anonymous
Posted on: 23 Apr 19 -
I don't do spicy and don't like olives, so took out olives and chili flakes, still YUM!!!
Anonymous
Posted on: 09 Mar 19 -
This is really nice,but I added some anchovies, capers & fresh basil to make it even better.
April Foord
Posted on: 14 Jun 18
