This really should fall into the un-recipe category and into the should make every week category too. This flavourful meal came about when I found some forgotten tomatoes in the crisper looking quite sad and slightly wrinkled. While waiting for the tomatoes to roast , you can as I did, enjoy a bubble bath with a glass of wine. 😉 With next weeks version, I shall lose the chicken and replace it with anchovies and try roma tomatoes for a more robust and slightly sweeter flavour.
Roasted Tomato & Chicken Pasta
Ingredients
Tomatoes halved
Garlic cloves unpeeled
Olive or grapeseed oil
Sea salt and black pepper
Dried origanum
Pasta of choice
Chicken breasts
Italian herbs
Chilli powder
Method
- Preheat the oven to 220°C.
- Place the tomatoes and garlic cloves on a baking tray and drizzles with oil and season well with salt, pepper and origanum.
- Bake for approximately 45 minutes.
- Blitz the tomatoes and garlic (squeezed out of it’s skin) using a stick blender and beaker. Add another drizzle of olive oil and stir through.
- Cook the pasta according to the package instructions.
- Fry the chicken breasts over a medium heat in butter and oil seasoned with the Italian herbs and chilli powder.
- Once cooked slice into strips.
- Serve the tomato sauce and chicken over the pasta with an optional second glass of wine.
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Next time I won’t throw the wrinklies into the compost! Sounds very tasty.
Must admit I was close to throwing mine away too – would have been a big mistake. have an awesome day. 🙂 xo
Any recipe that calls for another optional glass of wine is a definite in my kitchen. I shall be serving this for dinner (with many optional glasses of wine). Thanks my friend!
Optional / compulsory, I’m never quite sure which it should be… I would love to hear how you enjoy it. Clinkers 🙂
What a beautiful looking pasta. I’m sure I would love this xx
Thanks so for the lovely compliment Charlie. It is a super quick, easy and satisfying pasta. Have a beautiful day. 🙂 xo
you know my reaction! YUM 🙂
Glad you approve Tandy. Have a lovely afternoon. 🙂 xo
This is my kinda of pasta. Simple yet very delicious!
Just the way I love food too Angie, simple and packed full of flavour. Have a lovely day. 🙂
Just followed your blog! what a inspiring one;) Amazing pictures as well!keep it upxx
Hi Jennifer, welcome and thanks for stopping by. Thank you too for the lovely compliment. Have a super day. 🙂
I love any recipe that tells me to blitz the tomatoes. Cool!
Awesome! Enjoy. 🙂 xo
That looks simply delicious. My idea of comfort food.
This definitely has comfort written all over it Have a super day Greg. 🙂
Yum, yum! Roasting tomatoes really does work some special magic and this sounds wonderful! I think I might be on the third glass by the time I ate 😉
That’s all right, nobody is counting. Have a lovely day Tanya. 🙂 xo
I think “unrecipes” are the best sort.. especially after working all day. This looks so fresh and lovely with roasted tomatoes as the base!
All too often I am making an un-recipe or the same old same old. Have a gorgeous day. 🙂 xo
Simple, healthy and oh-so-delicious, Mandy! 🙂
Thanks very much Celia. Have a beautiful weekend. 🙂
Yum! I like your version of an “unrecipe”. This looks delicious Mandy. Roasted tomatoes, yummmmmmm. Thank you for sharing 🙂
Hi Sarah, I love un-recipes! There is something extra nice about roasting tomatoes. Have a super weekend. 🙂
This may sound a bit odd to you but I don’t think I’ve ever had chicken with pasta, no idea why though! An dyour unrecipe and photo make it VERY tempting
Oh Claire, you have to try this then, I am sure you will enjoy it. I would offer to make it for you but sadly the ocean separating us seems to be a wee bit of a problem. Have a lovely weekend. 🙂 xo
Excellent I will take the wine, the bubble bath AND the gorgeous pasta, I make a lovely dill chicken pasta but add the tomatoes as a sauce, THIS loks so much better.. and simple, fast.. all those good things.. good morning darling! c
I love the sounds of your dill chicken pasta too C! Hope the day get a wee bit warmer for you. 🙂 xo
I don’t know, it is not looking promising! ah well.. it is winter after all.. c
Good point. 😉 xo
I love cooking with wine 😉
The meal looks delicious! Hope all has been well in your world.
Hi Martha, lovely to hear from you. All well this side of the ocean thank you, I hope the same goes for your side too. Have a beautiful weekend. 🙂
A bubble bath and a glass of wine followed by this deliciousness would be a night of heaven for me. 🙂 Let me know how you like the anchovies version. I think Mike and I would enjoy that one too.
I am positive the anchovies will be fabulous Kristy – was also thinking of adding a bit of fresh basil. Have a beautiful weekend. Hope you get to have your bubble bath and glass of wine. 🙂 xo
This is a delicious recipe, Here in Sicily we have lots of wine and olive oil so no problem in making this recipe. Complimenti!
Hi Francesca, welcome and thanks for stopping by. Good to know you are in good supply of wine and olive oil – always a good thing. 😉 Have a lovely weekend. 🙂
Wine. Bubble bath.
I love your stye, Mandy Xxx
Sometimes a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do. 😉 Hope you get to enjoy a glass of wine with a bubble bath soon too Kim. Have a beautiful Sunday. 🙂 xo
really nice and simple dish!
Thanks Raymund. Have a lovely day. 🙂
Simple is always delicious… 🙂
Absolutely Marina, I always seem to enjoy simple dishes so much more, especially when they offer so much flavour. Have a lovely week ahead. 🙂
Roasted tomato anything is one of my very favourite foods. I grow heirloom tomatoes and slow roast/dry them with garlic, olive oil and salt every fall. Right now my freezer is packed with them and to me, they are candy! I love them with pasta and fresh basil, nothing else. This looks like a delicious recipe!
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Valerie
Hi Valerie, thanks for stopping by. There really is something special about a roasted tomato. How lovely to have a freezer full of slow roasted tomatoes. Have a lovely week ahead. 🙂
oh this looks incredibly delicious. Warm and inviting with some fun thrown in. I love how you used roasted tomatoes- it brings out their best flavor
Thanks Belle! There is something very special about the flavour of roasted tomatoes. Have a beautiful day. 🙂 xo
What a simple yet sophisticated and delicious looking recipe!
Geni, thank you very much for such a lovely compliment. Have a lovely day. 🙂
My kind of recipe and I will have the 2nd glass of wine too.
After all, a bird can’t fly with one wing Norma, so the second glass is somewhat mandatory. 😉 Have a super day. 🙂
Thank you for the tip on using up those sad tomatoes I always seem to end up with & I absolutely love any recipe that ‘requires’ a bubble bath with wine. That’s required, right?
Oh yes, the bubble bath and glass of wine are absolutely mandatory! 😉 Yay for a use for sad tomatoes too. Have a super day Diane. 🙂 xo
This pasta looks so inviting and almost like it has cream in it! I’ll take mine with the optional second glass, please. 🙂
Thanks Betsy. Must say this was a fabulous meal and was perfectly suited to the second glass of wine. 🙂 xo
I’m going to make this with anchovies after I pick up my daughter from preschool. This is something I just needed to fix quick lunch today. I’m hungry looking at the photo already. 😉
The anchovies will add a beautiful depth of flavour Nami. Enjoy! Have a super weekend. 🙂