Bianca was working all day so again it was my turn to cook.
But I don't mind, I got my cooking groove back.
I decided to go all out today on a chicken pesto pasta.
I bought all the goodies that make it extra great, like pine nuts and black olives.
I also made extra much because I work tomorrow myself for a company I have not let go yet because of contracts.
I wanted to take some pasta with me for lunch tomorrow.
Let's cook!
Ingredients: Penne Pasta, pine nuts, black olives, cherry tomatoes, a jar of green pesto, red onion, 2 peppers, a leak, bacon and chicken breasts.
As usual I like to prep everything before cooking. I forgot the red onion in the picture above.
Get two pots on the fire, one with water for the pasta, and one big one for everything else. I added a little bit of oil straight away.
Start with frying the bacon till semi crispy then add the chicken and cook it through.
While the chicken is cooking take a separate dry frying pan and put it on a low heat. Add the pine nuts to give them some colour by toasting them a bit in the hot pan.
Add the vegetables (except the tomatoes) to the chicken and cook for 3 minutes.
Add the pesto to the pan. After add some water to the jar (close the lid and shake) and add it also to pan.
The pesto will be pretty watery and needs to reduce a bit, that gives time to cook the pasta. This Penne needs 11 minutes according to the package but you should always undercook pasta and finish it in the sauce. I cooked it for 7 minutes.
After 7 minutes drain the pasta and add to the sauce stir it and just let it sit there for a couple minutes.
Almost there. Last step is to add all the goodies. The Tomatoes, toasted pine nuts and black olives.
End result: Fantastic, I love this pasta. I don't always make it with all the goodies but it does add to the experience. All the flavours work well together. I added some extra cheese on top (should have been Parmesan but I forgot to buy it).
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Like starting everything from scratch.
It shows true dedication to eat healthy and a good chef that I learn a lot from.
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Oh yum! Now I know what I'm cooking tonight. Thanks @exyle!
yes this is a very good cuisine.
@dougkarr not just you alone.
this dish reminds me of my father who double us as a great chef and a plumber. While he takes contracts all over at construction sites, he never misses coming back thrice in a week to prepare the dish. Was too young to know what the food is but it just tastes great.
And it looks just like this!
Thanks @exyle
@exyle,
Wow this is amazing! How it taste with Pine Nut? We called locally as Rata Kaju and I never add it with Pasta before! I will try this out! Thanks dude!
Cheers~
This pesto pasta is the only pasta where I know that it works. Although I'm sure there are others.
When I see you cooking this healthy delicious food, it reminds me what my grandmother always said “Don’t eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn’t recognize as food.. stay away from these”
Looks delicious!
Sound advice from your grandmother. I do try to cook what I recognise, lol.
But eventually in this age we will probably be able to produce food in a lab. And that doesn't mean it will automatically be bad! They will with science probably be able to perfect it. We are living in an age where we will experiment a lot with upgrading our bodies. Clearly we will experiment more with what we eat as well. Think in the future we will eat tiny pills that contains all we need to easier live in this new fast-pace world. Our ancestors lived in a different age. Today we will experiment with all areas of life!
That’s what my grandma always says, but I say “We are mutants, we can eat anything and it doesn’t kill us oppose to a few decades ago”
Haha. Whatever we are we are going off the rails lol. 🚄 The amount of alternative lifestyles we will see oh boy. Clearly we are living longer so we are doing something that works! I don't like these that tries to make food into a religion. We are so different in how we react to certain kinds of foods. And just as with genetic variation we need food variation. People that fill different categories!
Nice! another mouth watering post! I am sure it tasted amazing. :)
wow amazing recipe indeed, i really like pasta and chicken and especially cherry tomatoes and red onion are my favorite because they increase the flavor and taste of the dish and they are also full of nutrients and vitamins, i note down the recipe and i surely give it a try and man the end result of the dish is no doubt superb and it looks so tasty too, thanks for sharing this recipe with us and wish you a very joyful and cheerful week ahead friend, Stay blessed.
I might try this soon, i enjoy cooking but i dont cook very often though... I dream of helping my wife in the kitchen when she is heavy with pregancy and when she is busy...romantic
Try it man! She will love it.
I sure will, i cooked for my 2 sisters for 4 years when we lived together in the University, mostly when i didn't have lectures.
That looks super tasty your wife have to be proud to have a man like you friend. Regards
she should! lol :)
Hi @exyle it Looks delicious like all your dishes..
I think could easy be a chef in your own
Restaurant..
Enjoy your evening!
Kind regards
finally you turned out to be a great chef dear friend @exyle, many thanks for sharing the recipe and its preparation step by step.
I wish you a prosperous week
thank you, I wish you a great week too!
Watch out @exyle as got hes cooking grove going to bust some foods, but I most say it looks great I especially like the use of pine nuts they are so nice but not to keen on the olives some of this was almost like making a stir fry.
Skip the olives! no problem. Yeah it sort of like a stir-fry I guess.
Pasta could be this different and tasty wow didn't imagined that very creative you are with cooking skills always trying out something new :)
Once you know some basics you can create anything you want. Cooking is a nice skill to have.
I got my food and was gonna eat and watch this. I'm not eatin mine,i wanna cook this now! :D Nice one Exyle,love your videos but Bianca & you make stomach gold. Bless you guys
Pine nuts rock! never thought of adding them to my food. I think I will try them out in salads
They work great in salads.
Have you ever tried making the pasta yourself @exyle? I mean making and rolling out the dough. It comes out much tastier than the store-bought pasta.
I did it once. Without a pasta machine. It was way too thick to eat. It is possible to buy fresh pasta in the Netherlands, it's very good. But as always nothing beats something home-made with care.
Will add this to my pasta list of meals to try. The kids love pasta and think everything in this dish will be ok to add. Looks great and can't wait to try it.
I hope you will enjoy it.
Awesome @exyle! Looks delicious my friend
thanks man!
I have to start eating things like you, much healthier than Pakistani food
What a coincidense.. just saw the post while making my pasta with chicken..
I really hope that you keep pumping out these cooking blogs! I am going to start to cook for myself really soon as a effort to save myself money from consistently spending money each night on eating out
I have been doing them for while. Soon it will be more grilling blogs though :)
Yeah I noticed you do them a lot! I always seem them on the front page of steemit! congratulations on that btw!
I would definitely continue to come back for them grilling blogs, they might even inspire me to make my own!
Bellissimo, so good, mua!
One day I will fly to the Netherlands just to try your food, man. I love it!
Thanks, man! :)
I do like a bit of chicken pesto pasta. This looks a hearty dish!
It's a nice hearty dish indeed!
Damn this makes me extremely hungry! Big fan of chicken over meat. Nothing better than a Caesar salad with some chicken added. Sadly making food like this with passion usually takes too long around 1-2 hours in total. Wish we could have a food robot that could do the basics for us and then we could just overwatch it. I'm sure Elon Musk will come to rescue eventually.
It took me around 30 minutes (excluding the shopping). Once you do it often it goes really fast. Although I like the idea of a cooking robot :)
Yes it's true. But since there are so many interesting recipes out there that cooking robot would be a good thing. ;) I don't think we males are wired for remembering a million recipes haha! A few works! ;)
It's actually quite fun to do cooking of course once you are deeply involved in it.. These times I wish life was longer so many things you would be able to go deep into if there was more time! Cooking one of them.. Another is programming but that takes insane amounts of time!
Wow! This pasta dish looks awesome. It has all the flavours I like. I'll be making this one soon! Thanks!
Cool! I hope you will like it!
Wow. That looks really yummy. I didn't know you were a chef too! 😊
I'm impressed what a tidy chef you are. Very neat! 😁
Not really a chef, I like to cook though.
I wish I love cooking as much as you do? Took me seven hours to finish preparing a small soup. Half of the time was spent wishing someone would just come and help. How's Sam doing?
Lol, you will get it man :). Sam's doing great. He's back at his mom (my sister).
As I read this, "Tasty" (the cooking page on Facebook) popped into my mind. I wonder if something like that would work well on Steemit, or they would simply come here and start putting up videos to DTube(or DVines or something) too. That would be cool.
The food looks good by the way!
It's amazing because a man who has this kind of cuisine, the best teacher in teaching cooking.
Looks fantastic to me, but I'm not sure my girls would eat it with the pine nuts and olives.
I do make a chicken and pasta dish for them with garlic, onions, basil and parmesan that they love, even as leftovers. Can't go wrong with chicken and pasta!
Souds like a great version of the dish!
I also love this pasta. I have a tip for you. When you fry a chicken (or prepare one on the Green Egg) you will have too much. Keep the rest of that roast chicken for this pasta. That is so much better than chicken fillet.
That is a great tip!
One thing is clear: it´s way better to let you cook than repair something in your house! 😂
O yes! 100%.
Looks awesome, thanks for sharing
I am too greedy to eat your recipe.
This post has been upvoted and resteemed. i also started following you to see more of your work
I love finding new recipes that are packed full of flavor, and this one seems to do the trick. I am not a fan of pesto, so how would you feel if I substituted a lemon butter sauce instead? Would that be a good addition to the recipe? I appreciate the feedback, so I can take a stab at this recipe as well.
waw this is a very interesting new way
wow this is a way of cooking that i can do in my house. this food looks more appealing and deeply teases my mouth.
I hope to try to cook this food in my home.
thanks you my friend @exyle
Nice friend your a great cooker man
I screenshoot your image for the procedure I cook at home please permit me.
thanks you my friend @exyle This very tasty
loooks healthy and very tasty well done, red pepper, green pepper, olives...
ok iwant in my home thank my friend
wow this cuisine is very interesting and useful for all of us. and I really appreciate that friend @exyle
like her a great chef for your family.
I really appreciate that friend
you are a chef great man @exyle
it is a very tasty cuisine it seems, and certainly its accompanied by a great chef.
you are a very great cook
thanks my friend for shering @exyle
I hope Bianca doesn’t know there is a delicious surprise waiting for her home. When I come from work I always can’t wait what surprise is waiting for me in the kitchen. It’s everyday, but it always surprises me.
Oww.... good
the food is delicious, and all the steemian feel like to bite the screen of the smartphone mareka, because the delicacy of your food,
you are a great cook. thanks my friend for shering to we are.
@exyle
seeing this post makes me feel hungry, honestly I really like this kind of food.
do you want to try it
Waaaaaaaaaawwwww, great. Iya like it master
this is a very tasty cuisine with such a distinctive aroma,this is a very tasty cuisine with such a distinctive aroma,
nice post and good cooking
thanks @exyle
upvote and resteemit
That looks really so tasty !! :)
This looks amazing. When can i come over? :) I love pasta very much and always try new recepies. I will try this one for sure. Thanks for sharing. Have you tried to make the Pesto by yourself? Just a simple Pesto with dried tomatos, parmegiano, pine nuts and a good olive oil...maybe some garlic aswell....love it <3