A quick and simple healthy chicken spaghetti recipe using Sicilian flavours. Juicy chicken, sweet pops of raisins, salty olives, crunchy almonds, luscious sun-dried tomatoes and zesty lemon – delicious! Good hot for dinner, with any leftovers for lunch the next day. This dairy free chicken pasta is quick and simple to make, taking half an hour from start to on your plate.

From the series How To Poach A Chicken. This series takes a medium chicken and makes family meals from it for 7 days. This recipe was priced at Aldi on 16th August 2023 and came to 56p a serving

What do I need to make Sicilian spaghetti

whole meal spaghetti

raisins

almonds

sun dried tomatoes

olives, green or black

chicken

• • • For 4 portions
  • cooked chicken, a little more if uncooked
  • olives, black or green, stoned and chopped
  • raisins
  • extra virgin olive oil – for drizzling over and flavour
  • almonds, flaked, or whole nuts, chopped
  • sun-dried tomatoes, chopped
  • lemon, zested and juiced
  • wholemeal spaghetti, or whatever pasta you want to use. We all need to have more fibre, so if you can, use wholemeal varieties.

This chicken pasta recipe has no cream, so is great for a dairy free diet.

How do I make chicken spaghetti

• Put the spaghetti into a saucepan. Pour over boiling water from the kettle, add a little salt and simmer until cooked through
• Drain the pasta well, reserve a cup of water
• If your chicken is already cooked, chop to walnut sized pieces. If the chicken is still raw chop to walnut sized pieces and fry until cooked through.
• If you are using whole nuts, chop them quite finely
• Put the olives, raisins, nuts and chopped sundried tomatoes into a serving bowl.
• Zest and juice the lemon into the serving bowl
• Tip the contents of the serving bowl into the hot spaghetti saucepan and leave for the mixture to warm through. Add a little pasta water if it needs it
• Serve immediately whilst still hot, or enjoy at room temperature

What changes can I make

• Change the pasta to any shape. Value penne or spaghetti would work just fine.
• No raisins? Any dried fruit gives a little pop of sweetness. Make sure any larger dried fruit, apricots for instance, are cut up small.
• No olives / don’t like them? Try gherkins or capers
• The whole almonds can be changed to flaked almonds, or any other kind of nut that you want to use, chopped quite small.
• If you like anchovies, 1 or 2 chopped ones would be great in this
• Want to make it gluten free? You just need to change the pasta
• In fact all the ingredients can be changed around, substituted, omitted and swapped. What have you got?

This recipe is from a series – how to poach a chicken and feed your family all week with it

1. How To Poach A Chicken – still to come
2. Spaghetti with Chicken, Olives, Sultanas and Lemon – this post
3. Mushroom and Chicken Crumble – an oaty topping enhanced with seeds and nuts, with a creamy mushroomy, chicken base
4. Chicken & Rice Salad , with red peppers, peas, raisins, nuts, gherkins and using some of the chicken stock
5. Chicken & BBQ Pizza, sweetcorn, onion, red pepper, mozzarella and cheddar – still to come
6. Coronation Chicken Jacket Potato – still to come
7. Red Cabbage Waldorf with apple, walnut and dressing – still to come
8. Chicken Tart with Butternut Squash, Lemon Zest & Parmesan – still to come

Chicken Spaghetti Recipe with olives, sun-dried tomatoes, raisins and almonds

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Quick and easy to make, great when it's hot and leftovers are fab for lunch the next day

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Prep Time: 10 minutes mins

Cook Time: 15 minutes mins

Total Time: 25 minutes mins

Course:

Dinner

,

Lunch

Cuisine:

Italian

Servings: 4

Cost per portion 56p

Calories: 376kcal

Author: Thrifty Lesley

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Ingredients

• ▢ 140 g chicken or a little more if uncooked
• ▢ 20 olives black or green, stoned and chopped
• ▢ 50 g raisins
• ▢ 60 g almonds flaked, or whole nuts, chopped
• ▢ 60 g sun-dried tomatoes chopped
• ▢ 1 lemon
• ▢ 160 g spaghetti wholemeal if you can, or whatever pasta you want to use

Instructions

The Pasta

• ▢
  Put the spaghetti into a saucepan. Pour over boiling water from the kettle, add a little salt and simmer until cooked through
  160 g spaghetti
• ▢
  Drain the pasta well. Reserve a cup of water

To Mix With The Pasta

• ▢
  If your chicken is already cooked, chop to pea sized pieces. If the chicken is still raw chop to pea sized pieces and fry until cooked through.
  140 g chicken
• ▢
  If you are using whole nuts, chop them quite finely
  60 g almonds
• ▢
  Put the olives, raisins, flaked almonds or chopped nuts, and chopped sundried tomatoes into a serving bowl.
  20 olives, 50 g raisins, 60 g sun-dried tomatoes
• ▢
  Zest and juice the lemon into the serving bowl.
  1 lemon
• ▢
  Tip the contents of the serving bowl into the hot spaghetti saucepan and leave for the mixture to warm through. Add a little pasta water if it needs it.
• ▢
  Mix everything together
• ▢
  Serve immediately while still hot, or enjoy at room temperature.

To Serve

• ▢
  Good with shredded lettuce and cucumber or chopped tomatoes

Equipment Needed

saucepan, about 18cm

mixing bowl

small sharp knife

digital weighing scales

Notes

What changes can I make

• Change the pasta to any shape. Value penne or spaghetti would work just fine.
• No raisins? Any dried fruit gives a little pop of sweetness. Make sure any larger dried fruit, apricots for instance, are cut up small.
• No olives / don't like them? Try gherkins or capers
• The flaked almonds can be changed to whole almonds, chopped quite small, or any other kind of nut that you want to use.
• If you like anchovies, 1 or 2 chopped ones would be great in this
• Want to make it gluten free? Just change the pasta 
• In fact all the ingredients can be changed around, substituted, omitted and swapped. What have you got?

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts

Chicken Spaghetti Recipe with olives, sun-dried tomatoes, raisins and almonds

Serving Size

 

0 g

Amount per Serving

Calories

376

% Daily Value*

Fat

 

14

g

22

%

Saturated Fat

 

2

g

13

%

Trans Fat

 

0.02

g

Polyunsaturated Fat

 

3

g

Monounsaturated Fat

 

8

g

Cholesterol

 

13

mg

4

%

Sodium

 

346

mg

15

%

Potassium

 

857

mg

24

%

Carbohydrates

 

52

g

17

%

Fiber

 

7

g

29

%

Sugar

 

7

g

8

%

Protein

 

14

g

28

%

Vitamin A

 

233

IU

5

%

Vitamin C

 

7

mg

8

%

Calcium

 

81

mg

8

%

Iron

 

3

mg

17

%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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