Quick Dinners are top priority here at ThermoFun so when Mad Monday rolls around you can be sure of a quick dinner idea! This Thermomix Chicken & Spinach Penne with Rosa Sauce tops the list!
It has beautiful rich flavours from the ThermoFun Passata (when making this you will have enough for two recipes – so either make an extra batch of this to freeze or try one of the other amazing passata recipes I have).
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Below is a very special review of this recipe from the son of one of my ThermoFun members. Thank you Riley! 🙂
Delainie, one of my lovely ThermFun members shared her story with us the other day in our closed fb group – we were all very moved.
“My little boy was diagnosed at 10 weeks old with fibrosarcoma in his tongue and floor of his mouth. He had a tough battle for the first year of his life, chemo failed and he had to have his tongue removed. He is now 9½ years old and last year he had his 22nd operation. He is a real trooper and hasn’t let anything slow him down. We were told he would never talk or eat orally….. they were wrong. Riley is also head chef in this house. He spends weekends cooking. He loves anything with really big aromas, as he has no taste buds, so it’s got to smell good!
His latest favourite dessert is the ThermoFun Chocolate Mousse Cheesecake. No visitor can come for dinner or lunch on the weekend without him wanting to make one for them!”
Review of Chicken & Spinach Penne with Rosa Sauce
by Riley Foster aged 9
“This was the easiest dinner mum has let me make on my own, well aside from the shopping and cutting the chicken up.
First I got everything out of the cupboard and fridge. Mum says being organised first means faster cooking and less mess.
Then it was really easy to follow the steps. Making the penne in the Thermoserver is the easiest, just got to be careful with the hot water.
Then onto the sauce. Mum didn’t have any Thermofun passata made up, so we used jar stuff.
Then the chicken in the basket. This made it easy for me to stir when it was cooked. Then the cream and my favourite, Chilli flakes. I wish I could put Chilli in everything. Lucky everyone in our house loves spinach too.
Then everything was ready. So mum tipped the hot pasta into a big dish and I put the sauce on top.
Everybody loved it. Dad and I put extra Chilli flakes on top of ours. My sisters said the cream and sun-dried tomatoes were their favourite part. Mums favourite bit was me cooking. That was my favourite bit too.
Hope you like the photo mum took of me cooking. I was in my pyjamas but I don’t care cause I was too busy cooking”.
Posting pic of Riley with Delainie’s permission.
Thank you so much Riley – I think you are absolutely awesome! 🙂
Ingredients
- 300g penne pasta
- 50g parmesan cheese, cubed
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled
- 500g chicken thighs cut into large slices
- 300g ThermoFun Passata
- 100g cream
- 100g sun dried tomatoes, sliced
- ⅓ tsp dried chilli flakes
- 60-100g baby spinach
Instructions
- Click Here for directions to cook pasta in your ThermoServer. While pasta is cooking, continue to cook chicken.
- Place cheese into TM bowl and grate 10 sec / speed 9. Set aside.
- Place garlic into TM bowl and chop 3 sec / speed 8.
- Add passata and insert simmering basket into TM bowl and place chicken into basket and cook 14 mins / Varoma / speed 1.
- With aid of spatula loosen up the chicken pieces and carefully tip them into TM bowl with sauce. Add cream, sun dried tomatoes and chilli flakes and cook 4 mins / 100°C / speed 1 / Reverse.
- Add spinach and stir through with aid of spatula.
- To serve, pour sauce over pasta and sprinkle with cheese.
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This was quick and delicious.
Thanks Irene – I’m the queen of quick and delicious recipes! 🙂
Yum! This is so easy to make and delicious. I used chicken breast and it was lovely and tender. All the family enjoyed it. Also, i have a Bellini Intelli and didnt have to change a thing. Will be making again! 🙂
Thank you Sarah – so pleased to hear that you didn’t have to change anything either for the Bellini! 🙂
Super easy & delicious despite my changes. We didn’t have spinach or cream so I used kale, which I added with the garlic to disguise it, and greek yogurt. I also added a couple of carrots for extra veg. I think this will become a regular thanks.
Great to hear Jo. 🙂
great recipe – I just doubled the spinach for the “extra greens”. I had never cooked pasta in the thermoserver before either so that was a time saver as well.
Fabulous to hear Narelle!
I’m not really a pasta fan however wanted something quick and tasty so tried this not really expecting too much. However I was pleasantly surprised it was just that quick and tasty. Will make again maybe with the addition of mushrooms to bulk it out a bit and give me some leftovers for the freezer. Thank you for posting this recipe.
Thank you Catherine lovely to hear you enjoyed it.
This dish was to die for, Iam not much of a pasta lover but this just blew me away,
will definitely make this again. thank you for this easy recipe its a winner.
Thank you Jill – it is one of my favourites too! 🙂
this was tasty quick and delicious and will be one of my favourites
Fabulous to hear Jill. Thank you! 🙂
Made this tonight for the first time and enjoyed it. Will make again. Thanks Leonie!
Great to hear Beth! Thank you!
I been looking at ur recipes and all look great but im disappointed when i see the cream in them as daughter and i can’t tolerate it. Do u have some dairy free recipes? Can i add coconut cream maybe?
Hi Joanne yes I’m sure this would work beautifully with coconut cream.