Garlic Chicken Pasta with Roasted Tomatoes

Garlic chook pasta with roasted tomatoes comes collectively to make a flavorful and memorable dish. this can speedy become a part of your dinner rotation.

i love throwing my favourite ingredients together to make a scrumptious fresh pasta dish.  this is how this garlic fowl pasta with roasted tomatoes got here to be.  I started with penne pasta, grilled fowl, and  garlic.  Then I brought  in some grilled zucchini, sparkling basil, and parmesan cheese to the mix.  And finished it off with the display stopper, roasted tomatoes.

This pasta dish is so scrumptious.  Roasting the tomatoes takes a little effort and time however it's so really worth it.  agree with me on this one.  in case you absolutely don’t want to roast tomatoes, some clean sliced cherry tomatoes brought into the pasta could be scrumptious too or use jarred sun dried tomatoes you should buy at the store.

Ingredients

• Olive oil
• Juice of one lemon
• 1 C cherry tomatoes, roasted or use jarred sun dried tomatoes
• 1 tsp dried basil
• 1 chicken breast sliced
• 1 zucchini sliced
• 1/4 C pine nuts
• 2 tsp garlic minced
• 1/4 C fresh basil sliced (save some to garnish top of pasta)
• 8 oz. penne pasta
• salt and pepper
• Parmesan cheese grated for garnish

Instructions

Roasted Tomatoes:

1. Slice tomatoes in half and place in baking dish cut side up.  Drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper and dried basil
2. Place in 225 degree oven for about 3 hours or until shriveled but should still have some moisture.

Chicken Marinade

1. Place chicken in bowl or plastic bag and cover with olive oil, sprinkle with kosher salt and squeeze the juice of one lemon over the top.
2. Refrigerate for at least one hour.
3. Grill chicken and cut up.

Grilled Zucchini:

1. Slice zucchini in half.  Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt.
2. Grill until softened and it has nice grill marks.  Cut into bite size pieces

Pasta:

1. Boil a large pot of water, add pasta and cooked to desired doneness
2. In a large frying pan add several tablespoons of olive oil and pine nuts. Stir until pine nuts begin to brown.
3. Add garlic and stir.  Add in roasted tomatoes, chicken, zucchini and fresh basil.   Stir in cooked pasta. Salt and pepper to taste.
4. Add in more olive oil if it seems dry.  Sprinkle with Parmesan Cheese.