Appetizing spaghetti with chicken

Before you cook spaghetti with chicken, you need to learn how to choose the right pasta. To begin with, it is worth giving a description of this product. Spaghetti is a kind of macaroni, the length of which is 15 cm and more, and the thickness - no more than 5 mm, usually 2 mm. There are two types of spaghetti: thin and thick. Preference in favor of one or the other kind should be done, based on personal considerations or sympathies. When choosing a spaghetti, the important criterion is what kind of flour they are made from. Macaroni products from durum wheat are the most successful variant. First, such pasta will not stick together during cooking. And, secondly, they are less caloric than others. How to determine what kind of flour is produced from spaghetti? First, you should look at the composition of the product. If the pasta is sold by weight or for some reason the composition is not indicated on the package, then pay attention to the price tag. Russian-made pasta from durum wheat is designated by category A, Italian is called "semola di grano duro". Also inspect the surface of the spaghetti, it should be smooth and with a golden hue. If macaroni have unnaturally bright colors, then, most likely, dyes worked over them. In this case, judge for yourself whether you want to eat unnatural ingredients. But if the pasta has a point of white or black, you should not be scared, because This is the residual phenomenon from the shell of grain.

So, we learned how to choose the right spaghetti, now you can start cooking them. This time we will present you a recipe of spaghetti with chicken.

To prepare this amazing dishes we will need:

- 400 g of spaghetti

- 2 small chicken breasts

- 2 Bulgarian peppers (red and green)

- white pepper

- 2 tomatoes

- greens (preferably parsley)

- several cloves of garlic

- 1 red onion

- 150 ml chicken broth

- 200 ml of thick cream

- olive oil (can be replaced by an ordinary vegetable)

- some white wine

- butter

- salt and spices.

Preparation of spaghetti with chicken is best to start with slicing vegetables. For this, we take white, green and red peppers and remove them from the core with seeds. Pepper is cut into half rings. Then take the bulb and also cut it into half rings. Next, "cut" the tomatoes in the form of cubes, for this mode they are first along, and then across. Turn came to the garlic, finely chop it. We put the vegetables aside for a while.

We will engage in a bird. Defreeze the chicken (if necessary) and cut it into cubes of medium size. Grate it abundantly with chicken cubes with spices that you can choose to your taste. The ideal option is a combination of paprika and cinnamon. Paprika will give the necessary spicy food, and the cinnamon will fill it with attracting aroma. We will fry the chicken in a deep frying pan in butter. First you need to warm up the pan thoroughly, melt some butter in it, and then put about half of the chicken in it. Fry the chicken pieces until a piquant golden hue, not stirring, but only occasionally turning them from one side to the other. By the end of the chicken, salt it and place it in a separate container. Repeat with the remaining half of the chicken pieces.

Fry vegetables. In the same frying pan, in which the chicken is fried, add a little cream and olive oil. After completely dissolving the oil, we place in the pan a chopped onion, garlic and pepper, season them with spices and salt. Fry the vegetables for a minute on a fairly high heat. We add tomatoes to the fried vegetables, we mix them in the total mass. The contents of the frying pan are covered with a lid and stewed at minimum heat for about half an hour. Transfer the cooked vegetables into a separate container.

Take a deep saucepan and pour water into it, bring it to a boil. Then boil the salt water and put spaghetti into it, cook them for 10 minutes. Throw the pasta in a colander.

Next we need the same fry pan into which now we pour a little white wine and chicken broth. Alcohol in combination with the broth will give a beautiful brownish hue and mysterious taste. Add the cream to the mixture and reduce the heat. Periodically stirring the liquid with a whisk or a wooden spatula, bring it to a thickening. Immediately after the thickening of the sauce, add the ready-made chicken and vegetables to it. This composition is literally a few minutes.

Now it comes to the pasta, which we place in our already become a "native" frying pan. Thoroughly mix spaghetti with chicken, vegetables and sauce. We put it into a smart plate and sprinkle with small-cut greens. Spaghetti with chicken ready, you can serve this very appetizing dish to your household. Before serving, if desired, macaroni can be sprinkled with grated cheese.

Spaghetti with chicken is a fairly simple dish, it does not require any special ingredients and a significant waste of money to buy the necessary ingredients. If you liked this "culinary greetings from Italy", then the next time as a variety, cook spaghetti with meatballs for a similar recipe.