This Pasta with Chicken and Sun Dried Tomatoes dish is loaded with creamy pasta and tender pieces of chicken. Cooked using sun dried tomatoes, paprika and lots of parmesan cheese. Perfect comfort food for the whole family.

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If you’re on the lookout for a great chicken and pasta dish to make like my One Pot Creamy Chicken Pasta, you need to make this one too! This dish brings all the flavour to the dinner table and it’s one you’ll want to make on repeat all year long.

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What Is This Pasta Dish Like

• Difficulty – This is a super easy and quick recipe. From start to finish, you can have it on the table in just over 30 minutes!
• Taste – Think decadent! This is an amazingly creamy pasta dish with tender pieces of chicken and sun dried tomatoes with a punch.
• Serving – This recipe will serve four people as a main course. In the recipe card at the end of the post you can easily adjust the serving size.

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Ingredients

• Chicken – I used chicken tenders but chicken breasts cut into thick strips would also work
• Pasta – I opted for Penne pasta which worked really well in this dish.
• Olive oil – I used extra virgin olive oil for cooking.
• Garlic – Fresh minced garlic will give the best flavour.
• Sun dried tomatoes – For best results use sun dried tomatoes packed in oil. They have a huge flavour punch!
• Cream – I used a cooking cream to make the sauce. Although this isn’t an overly creamy sauce, the cooking cream makes a light sauce that is delicious.
• Parmesan cheese – This recipe uses freshly grated parmesan cheese.
• Seasonings – I used dried basil, salt and black pepper.
• Fresh herbs – I added fresh chopped parsley for additional freshness and flavour when the dish was finished.

REMEMBER, The full recipe and instructions is located at the end of the post in the recipe card.

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Instructions

1. Cook pasta – Cook pasta according to package, drain (reserving one cup/240 ml of pasta water) and set aside.
2. Season chicken – In a small bowl combine 1 tablespoon of the paprika with the salt and pepper. Combine and sprinkle it over the chicken. Coat the chicken well with the seasoning.
3. Cook chicken – In a large skillet set over high heat add the olive oil and place the chicken tenders in the skillet. Cook for 5 minutes and flip over all the chicken pieces and cook for a further 5 minutes. Remove the chicken from the pan and cut into small bite sized pieces. Set aside.
4. Make pasta sauce – In the same skillet that you cooked the chicken, reduce heat to medium and add the sun dried tomatoes and garlic. Cook, stirring occasionally for about 3-4 minutes. Add the cream, pasta water, remaining paprika, basil and oregano. Stir well and bring to a gentle simmer. The sauce should lightly bubble and start to thicken in about 1 – 2 minutes. Reduce heat to low.
5. Assemble pasta dish – Add the cooked chicken pieces, pasta, parmesan cheese and fresh parsley. Stir well, remove from heat and serve hot.

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Notes About This Dish

• Cooking times – This dish comes together pretty quickly. It’s best to cook the pasta while you are making the sauce so they are both ready at the same time.
• Reserve pasta water – This is really important for the sauce, so don’t forget to save about a cup of pasta water before draining the pasta. The pasta water helps make the sauce.
• Type of sun dried tomatoes – The best type of sun dried tomatoes to use in this recipe are the ones that are packed in oil. They give so much flavour.

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Substitutions

• Pasta – I used penne pasta for this recipe. Alternatively, you could use pasta spirals, spaghetti or rotini.
• Sun dried tomatoes – This recipes used sun dried tomatoes packed in oil as this gives the best flavour. You could use dry sun dried tomatoes. Just keep in mind, these need to be soaked before using.
• Fresh parsley – I love the freshness of parsley, but basil would work great for this recipe.

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Serving

• Salads – A fresh salad to go on the side of this would work really well. Why not take a look at the Mediterranean Tossed Salad or the Classic Caprice Salad.
• Breads – Of course you can serve with pasta! Garlic Knots are one of our family favourites and even the Rustic Loaf would be great.

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