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Chicken & Mushroom Pasta Sauce

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This is my base for lasagne and pasta bake. To use as a sauce with cooked pasta, just add 1tsp of cornflour in 125ml of milk at the end of the cooking process. Learn how to make this and you have three easy alternative dishes in your arsenal of full flavour meals to satisfy any hungry soul. Before you know it, you'll be making it with one eye shut ;-) Switch it up to my beef & pork pasta sauce and that's another one nailed without a shop-bought sauce or expensive ingredient in sight

Click the Method tab below to see a step by step guide with pictures.

ingredients

ingredients

Here's what you need :-)

serves 6

  • 3 Tblsp oil
  • 3 medium onions sliced
  • 3 carrots grated
  • 3 celery stalks finely chopped
  • 5 cloves of garlic finely chopped
  • 1 pack smoked bacon lardons or 3 rashers sliced and diced
  • 450g chicken boneless thighs diced into eight
  • 8 chestnut mushrooms quartered
  • 1 400g tin plum tomatoes pulped in a blender or mashed with a potato masher
  • 2 Tbls tomatoe puree
  • 2 tsp italian mixed herbs
  • 1 tsp oregano
  • 1 bunch of fresh marjoram
  • 1 OXO™ chicken stock cube crumbled
  • 1 OXO™ vegetable stock cube crumbled
  • 1 Tbls Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 1/2 x tsp black pepper
  • 400ml water

method

We're making my goto pasta sauce here, but this time we're using chicken & mushrooms

The trick is to get everything to melt into the tomatoes!

  1. Heat a large wok temp med-high (or heavy bottomed pan)
  2. Add the oil & allow it to heat up
  3. Add your onions for 5 mins
  4. Add your carrots for 5 mins
  5. Add your celery and garlic for 5 mins
  6. Add salt and pepper and dried herbs
    7. softened veg
    veg cooked in pan
    1. Once these vegetables have reduced by 2/3rds
    2. Push aside & add your bacon lardons brown for 10 mins
    cook the bacon
    bacon added to veg
    1. Push the bacon under the vegetables
    2. Fry your chicken pieces for 10 mins
    cook the chicken
    chicken added to veg

    Tip - fry your chicken in 3 small batches. If you put it all in at once the temperature of the pan will drop, and they will boil! Push your chicken under your vegetables and bacon

    1. Add your mushrooms stir-fry for 5 minutes
    cook the mushrooms
    mushrooms added to veg
    1. Combine all the ingredients in the pan
    2. Add tomato pulp & tomato puree
    3. Add stock cubes & Worcestershire sauce
    4. Add water & bring to a rapid simmer
    add tomatoes & remaining ingredients
    tomatoes added to veg
    1. Cover with a well fitting lid
    2. Turn down to med heat for 15 mins
    3. Remove the lid turn to med-high heat & allow to reduce
    chicken & mushroom pasta sauce
    pasta sauce in pan
    1. Lastly, sprinkle in your marjoram