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Pasta with chicken and tomato sauce
Pasta with chicken and tomato sauce

Ingredients#

Directions#

  1. Heat oil in a large pot.

  2. Add onion and capsicum and cook until soft.

  3. Remove from heat and add garlic, tomatoes, salt, sugar and mixed herbs.

  4. Using a stick blender, blend the sauce until smooth.

  5. Return to heat and cook over medium heat for 30 minutes.

  6. Bring a separate pot of water to a boil.

  7. Add pasta to boiling water and cook until just soft then drain.

  8. Add chicken to sauce and return to a boil.

  9. Mix sauce and chicken through pasta.

  10. Chop parsley.

  11. Serve pasta, sauce and chicken with cheese and parsley to garnish according to quantities below.

Tip

Portioning guidance

Portion out a reference plate for each meal size to guide your portioning:

  • Years 0 to 3: 198g pasta, sauce and chicken, 7g cheese, 0.6g parsley.
  • Years 4 to 8: 232g pasta, sauce and chicken, 8g cheese, 0.7g parsley.
  • Years 9 and above: 328g pasta, sauce and chicken, 11g cheese, 1g parsley.

Special diet substitution ideas#

  • Vegetarian: replace chicken with canned chickpeas, serve 20g extra per serve.
  • Vegan: replace chicken with canned chickpeas, serve 20g extra per serve. Replace cheese with vegan cheese.
  • Halal: make sure chicken is halal-certified.
  • Dairy (cow's milk): replace cheese with dairy-free cheese.
  • Gluten (wheat): use gluten-free pasta.
Tip

Recipe tips

  • Use any other cooked meat instead of chicken.
  • Make bulk quantities of sauce and freeze for later use.

Gilmours product information#

Product descriptionPack size
Value canola oil3L
SB onion diced 1kg
SB capsicum red diced 1kg
Gilmours garlic crushed in oil 1kg
Gilmours tomatoes crushed 2.5kg
Pams salt iodised 1kg
Pams sugar white 500g
Gilmours mixed herbs 500g
Turkmen pasta fusilli 5kg
Tegel chicken shredded classic roast 1kg
Alpine cheese edam grated 5kg
Fresh Connection half bunched parsley 350g

Nutrition standards summary#