Recipe by Joy Devor

Grilled Chicken over a Bed of Pasta

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Meat Meat
Medium Medium
6 Servings
Allergens

Contains

- Wheat
45 Minutes
Diets

No Diets specified

This delicious marinade is my basic chicken breast marinade. I use it for barbecues and for regular suppers as well. If you like different herbs than those I have listed, adapt the recipe for your family’s tastes. The flavors in the pasta complement the flavors in the chicken, creating a winning combination.

Ingredients

Chicken and Marinade Ingredients

  • 6 boneless chicken breast halves, cut into 3 strips each

  • 1/2 cup olive oil, plus a little more for brushing grill pan

  • salt and pepper to taste (approximately 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper)

  • juice of a lemon (don’t throw away the rinds)

  • 1 teaspoon Haddar Dijon Mustard

  • 1/2 teaspoon each dried basil and thyme

  • 1/4 teaspoon dried rosemary

  • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley or 6 cubes Dorot Gardens Frozen Parsley

Pasta Ingredients

  • 1 and 1/2 pounds fettuccine or linguine, boiled in salted water (see tip)

  • 2 tablespoons Bartenura Extra Virgin Olive Oil

  • 2 tablespoons fresh basil, chopped (or 6 cubes Dorot Gardens Frozen Basil) or 2 teaspoons dried basil

  • 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, chopped

  • 3 cloves of garlic, chopped

  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt

  • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper

  • 1/4 cup toasted Gefen Bread Crumbs (optional for topping)


Wine Pairing

Chateau Le Petite

Directions

Make the Chicken and Pasta

1.

Place all marinade ingredients, (even the empty lemon rinds) together with the chicken in a Ziploc bag. Place the bag in a bowl so it won’t leak and set aside for 15 minutes.

2.

In the meantime, boil the pasta in a large pot of salted water until al dente, or about 12 minutes. Sauté garlic in the olive oil on a low flame until it’s soft (about four minutes),being careful not to burn it. Mix the oil, garlic, spices, and herbs with the pasta and set aside.

3.

If you have a grill pan or a plug-in grill, use it to grill the chicken. Heat the grill pan and brush it with olive oil. When it’s hot, grill the chicken about 6 minutes per side, brushing the  second side with marinade before turning over, until it’s cooked through on both sides. If you don’t have a grill pan, put the oven broiler on high setting. Place your chicken pieces on a broiler pan or a cookie sheet and brush with the marinade. Place the pan about six inches from the heat source and broil about 6 minutes per side, until cooked through. Baste with marinade before turning. Since the chicken breasts are cut into strips,  they will broil very quickly; keep checking  to make sure they don’t burn.

Tips:


Pasta seems like such a simple item to prepare. If so, why do we sometimes end up with a lumpy, tasteless mess? Here’s how to make perfect pasta:
1. Make sure you have enough water in the pot. Pasta expands and it needs room to do that or it will clump together.
2. Salt the water: pasta doesn’t have much flavor. A generous amount of salt in the water seasons the pasta internally as it absorbs liquid and swells. The pasta dish may even require less salt overall. For a more complex, interesting flavor, add one to two tablespoons of sea salt to a large pot of rapidly boiling water.
3. Stir the pasta as soon as you put it in the water to break up the clumps, and again 2 minutes later.
4. There are conflicts of opinion as to both adding oil to the water and rinsing the pasta after draining. Oil helps the pasta not to stick together, but too much will make the sauce slide off the greasy surface. So, use just a little in if you feel you must.
5. Rinsing pasta is good for items like kugels and noodles for your soup. However, if you’re plan on putting an olive oil coating or sauce on it, rinsing is not a good idea. The clingy edges of the pasta will get rinsed away and you won’t get the full sauce flavor.

To Serve

1.

Place pasta in a large serving platter or bowl with the strips of chicken arranged nicely above it.  

2.

Garnish with additional parsley or basil, as desired. Sprinkling about a quarter cup of toasted bread crumbs on top of the pasta right before serving makes the dish explode with taste and texture!

Grilled Chicken over a Bed of Pasta

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Esther
Esther
3 years ago

how do I print a recipe?

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Reply to  Esther
3 years ago

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Raquel
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3 years ago

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Esther
Esther
3 years ago

really good!