It’s Mad Monday again! The first Monday of every month where I share with you a recipe that is very quick, but also is popular and a great family meal.
If the family is hungry and you want a warm, tasty and filling meal on the table in less than 30 minutes then this will have them happy and satisfied in no time.
This is such a quick and easy recipe – I’m trying to perfect similar recipes that we can buy already made in jars. This one is getting pretty close to one of the commercial ones that was a family favourite of ours before I had a Thermomix.
Looking for more delicious and quick dinners? Then make sure you get a copy of my Meals in a Jiffy cookbook with 35 dinner recipes that can be on the table in approx. 30 minutes!
And check our cream cheese recipes for any you have leftover!
ThermoFun – Mad Monday – Lemon Chicken and Cream Cheese Pasta
Ingredients
- 300g spiral pasta
- 3 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1 onion, peeled and halved
- 4 rashers bacon, short cut, quartered
- 20g TM vegetable stock concentrate
- 30g mustard, Dijon
- 15g honey
- 40g lemon juice
- pinch of black pepper, ground
- 120g cream cheese, cubed (room temp.)
- 600g chicken thigh fillets, cubed
- fresh chopped parsley, for garnish
Instructions
- Cook pasta in ThermoServer Click Here.
- While your pasta is cooking, continue on to make your sauce.
- Place garlic, onion and bacon into TM bowl and chop 3 sec / speed 5.
- Scrape down and sauté 5 mins / Varoma / speed 1 / MC off.
- Add stock, mustard, honey, lemon juice, pepper and cream cheese and mix 5 sec / speed 5.
- Add chicken and with aid of spatula, coat chicken with sauce and cook 18 mins / 100°C / speed 1 / Reverse.
- Drain pasta and return into empty ThermoServer.
- Pour lemon chicken into pasta and combine well. Garnish with parsley.
If you have enjoyed this recipe then please consider leaving a comment. It’s always refreshing to see comments from people that have tried a recipe and found it a success or tweaked it to suit.
Amanda T says
With winter upon us in Australia and lemons in plentiful supply, this Chicken and lemon cream cheese sauce was a lovely quick and simple weekend recipe to make. Great with pasta or vegetables such as green beans and broccolini if you're a low-carb eater. Thanks Leonie, this was another winner!
thermofun says
Fabulous to hear Amanda. Thank you! :)
Jenny says
This is such a quick and easy dinner great for when I finish work at 8pm I use just a little bit of lemon though as the kids aren't lemon fans!
thermofun says
Love quick and easy dinners Jen when we have hungry kids and we are tired from working! :)
Annie Masters says
We had this for lunch yesterday. Another hit. Thank you.
thermofun says
Thank you Annie. Pleased to hear you enjoyed it. :)
Tania says
We really enjoyed this quick pasta. So tasty! I added some zucchini to it which was lovely.
thermofun says
Thanks Tania - yes the zucchini would go well too! :)
[email protected] says
Roughly how many grams of chicken do u need as chicken breasts vary so much in weight n size,this sounds quite yummy
thermofun says
Shaz this recipe wouldn't really matter how much or how little you used. I would have a guess at around 500g though.
[email protected] says
Thanks Leonie was just checking and are all the recipes servings for around 4 people ?
thermofun says
Shaz I'd say minimum of four people and a lot are for 6.
[email protected] says
Thanks again
robertatahir says
My family loved this recipe, it was delicious.
Thanks
Jenny says
This was great. Was really surprised about the pasta cooking in the Thermoserver. Next time I will add peas to cook with the pasta, just to add some colour.
Samantha says
Made this tonight - very easy and tasty. And I didn't know about cooking pasta in the Thermoserver - great idea! Thank you :-)
Michelle says
Hi there love all your recipes they are so quick and easy. Im using me Thermie a lot
more now as I'm thinking about getting the new one. Im still not using my Varoma as
much as I'd like too :)
Kind Regards
Michelle
thermofun says
Michelle - I have a blog post with all my varoma recipes on it for you to try.