This simple weeknight dinner of Quick Herb Chicken Pasta is hearty and filling. Just a few ingredients are required to create this flavorful meal.
If you need a quick weeknight meal, this is a great go-to recipe. I’ve adapted it from a book called While the Pasta Cooks. It’s available through Amazon.com and was one of the very first books I owned when I started to get into cooking. Every recipe is doable in the time it takes to boil the pasta. That’s every Mom’s dream dinner! So go get a pot of water boiling and let’s make some dinner.
Ingredients you’ll need
- Cooked pasta
- Olive oil
- Onion
- Boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- Rosemary and sage
- Tomato
- Garlic
- Red wine
- Reduced sodium chicken broth
- Salt and pepper
How to make this recipe
Start by caramelizing a medium onion that’s been chopped. I used a bit of olive oil, but you could use cooking spray if you’re trying to cut back the fat grams. Add 3 cubed chicken breasts and cook until it begins to lose the raw look, but not cooked all the way through.
Toss in a sprig of rosemary and a sprig of sage. You’ll take them out later, or conversely you could announce that whoever gets the sprig of rosemary has to do dishes. Add a diced medium tomato, 3 crushed cloves of garlic, 1 cup of reduced sodium chicken broth and a 1/2 cup of red wine (or white). Season with salt and pepper and let it boil until the chicken is cooked through. Remove the herbs and toss with your favorite shaped pasta.
Herb Chicken Pasta Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 lb pasta, any shape, cooked al dente
- 1 tbsp olive oil, or cooking spray
- 1 medium yellow onion, chopped
- 3 chicken breast, boneless, skinless, cubed
- 1 sprig fresh rosemary
- 1 sprig fresh sage
- 1 medium tomato, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- ½ cup red wine, or more chicken stcok
- 1 cup chicken stock
- kosher salt, to taste
- black pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Salt the water and add the pasta. Cook according to package directions.
- In a large frying pan over medium-high heat, add the oil and onion and cook until the onions are beginning to caramelize, about 4 minutes.
- Add the chicken and cook until it is no longer raw looking on the outside, but still uncooked on the inside. Add the rosemary and sage, tomato, garlic, wine and chicken broth. Cook until the chicken is cooked all the way through. Remove the herb sprigs. Salt and pepper to taste.
- Toss the drained pasta with the chicken mixture and sprinkle with parmesan cheese.
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I’m Heather, a recipe developer and content creator based in Vancouver, Washington. I started Farmgirl Gourmet in 2006 because I believed weeknight dinners shouldn’t be boring and gourmet shouldn’t mean complicated. I’m also the co-founder of Spiceology, so safe to say I think about food for a living. Stick around for recipes that actually make it into your regular rotation.
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What a great weeknight dinner!!
Looks absolutely delicious!
I love dishes that are quick and this one looks down right tasty too!
Yum…this looks so light and fresh! I love meals like this on weeknights…the rest of the meal cooks while the pasta boils. Toss up a quick salad, and dinner is served!
It looks delicious, and fast. Nice!
Wow.. I am going to try this tomorrow night! Thank-you!
Mmhm, this is my type of dinner! Love that it staarts with caramelized onions! 🙂