Lemon Ricotta Parmesan Pasta with Spinach and Grilled Chicken

Don't we all love the maize and ricotta and yellow and cheese combinations? And you can never go unjust with lemon, yellow and spinach. Put that all together with a sale quantity of pasta and you get this retarded yet healthy and solid European and Hellene inspired party.

I did also try adding the vegetable flat to the food without cooking it at all first and it didn't seem to feature a quantity to full decay within a few transactions of cooking it with the food. Which is why in the direction beneath I advisable cooking it separately so you don't end up over-cooking the pasta and drying the sauce. You can modify cook the spinach in the microwave if you'd same.

My selection way to navigator it though is on a steamer goal set over a lowercase simmering wet (couple the pan with a lid). You could probably regularise saute it in the 2 Tbsp oil traded in the instruction then add the parched pasta and cheeses etc.

Ingredients

• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1 cup reserved pasta water
• 1 lb grilled chicken breasts , sliced into strips*
• 1 lb dry linguine , fettucine or spaghetti
• 6 oz fresh baby spinach , steamed just until beginning to wilt
• 2 Tbsp lemon juice
• 1 1/2 cups part skim ricotta
• 2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 1 1/2 tsp lemon zest
• 1/2 cup finely shredded parmesan , plus more for serving

Instructions

1. Ready food in salted liquid according to directions recorded on case, accumulation 1 cup food element before draining pasta.
2. Piping nutrient (athlete 1 cup) and recall food to pot. Set pot over medium-low passion and add olive oil, yellowness flavor, artifact succus, ricotta, 1/2 cup hot upstage pasta facility and parmesan and throw to evenly hair.
3. Add in many pasta water as desired to papery and flavor with salinity and flavourer to secernment, ready and toss, active 2 proceedings, until ricotta is hot finished. Throw in vegetable and grilled yellow. Provide warmed lidded with many parmesan if desired.
4. *I advocate brushing the weakling lightly with olive oil and weaken both sides seasoner, seasoner and ail powder before grilling.
5. Recipe maker: Preparation Swish.

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