Peri Peri Chicken Pasta

A super easy one pan peri peri chicken pasta recipe – you’re just going to LOVE this easy one pot meal. Perfect for serving on busy weeknights, it’s low fuss to make and a bowl of total comfort food to eat!

All the flavours of your favourite peri peri chicken in a creamy pasta dish. Tender chicken breast pieces, with juicy red peppers and onions all cooked together in a rich tomato sauce with penne.

This tasty, simple chicken recipe is great for weeknight dinner. I usually add a side of green vegetables, just some peas cooked from the freezer, some air fryer corn on the cob and often a basket of garlic bread too.

Making our peri peri chicken pasta for dinner is a good thing – here’s why!

• It's a one pan recipe, the pasta cooks straight into the sauce. And one pan, means less washing up!

• Everyone loves that delicious combo of creamy comforting pasta, but with a kick of heat from the peri peri seasoning.

• It's chicken pasta! Pretty much guarantees the kids will eat it!

• Peri peri chicken pasta one pot is really easy to make, low faff, so you can get on with other things whilst it cooks.

Equipment Needed

• Chopping board

• Knife

• Large saucepan - we use the biggest we have so there's loads of room for sloppy stirring!

• Cooking spoon

• Measuring jug or cup

• Tablespoon

• Teaspoon

Peri Peri Chicken Pasta Ingredients

You'll just need a handful of simple ingredients to make our delicious one pan chicken pasta recipe

• 1 tablespoon olive oil

• 1 red onion - diced

• 1 red pepper - diced

• 1 clove garlic - finely chopped

• 1 red chilli - optional, this adds and extra kick of heat, you can deseed the chilli for less heat or skip it altogether.

• 2 teaspoon peri peri seasoning - if you don't want your chicken pasta as spicy, then use just 1 teaspoon as peri peri seasoning can be very spicy! We use the Schwartz piri piri seasoning mix.

• 550g chicken breasts - diced into small bitesized pieces

• 300g penne pasta - feel free to use a different shaped pasta - fusilli or farfalle are both good

• 650g passata

• Boiling water from the kettle - to top up the pan so the pasta is covered

• Pinch salt

• 150ml double cream - optional, you can eat it just tomato based, but we love the creamy sauce

• Handful coriander leaves - roughly chopped

How To Make Peri Peri Chicken Pasta Recipe

You'll just LOVE how easy this one pan chicken and pasta recipe is to make!

Step One - fry the onions and peppers

• Add the olive oil to a large saucepan over a medium heat.

• Tip in the diced onions and red pepper, add the sliced chillies and chopped garlic. Gently fry everything together for around 5 minutes, stirring often.

Step 2 - add the diced chicken breast

• Add the diced chicken breast and the peri peri seasoning to the pan.

• Fry the chicken for around 5 minutes with the onions and peppers until it turns from pink to white.

Step Three - add the pasta and passata

• Tip in the uncooked penne, the passata, and a good pinch of salt. Give everything a good mix together.

• Then pour in enough boiling water from the kettle to just cover the pasta, give everything a stir again.

• Then bring the pan to the boil. Once boiling, reduce the heat to a simmer, put the lid on and cook for around 20 minutes or until the pasta is cooked and the chicken cooked through properly. The sauce will reduce down as the pasta absorbs the water.

Cooks Note! Stir the pasta often, and if it looks like it needs a little more water add some from the kettle.

Step Four - add cream to the cooked peri peri chicken pasta

• If you're making the creamy chicken pasta, now is the time to add the cream, it just makes the sauce extra rich and delicious. Just pour it into the peri peri chicken pasta and stir.

• Add a handful of chopped coriander and stir that into the chicken pasta too.

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Step Five - serve the peri peri chicken pasta

• Divide the pasta into bowls and serve straight away, it's far too delicious to wait!

Love spicy chicken dishes? Try our Firecracker Chicken here!

What To Serve With One Pan Chicken Pasta

Our delicious peri peri chicken pasta goes great with any of the side dishes below!

• Air Fryer Corn On The Cob

• Nando's Style Peas

• Air Fryer Halloumi

Love Chicken Pasta Dishes? Try These!

Chicken pasta is always a popular choice, especially when cooking for kids, and if you like our peri peri chicken dish then you'll love these too!

• Cajun Chicken Pasta Bake

• Hunters Chicken Pasta Bake

• Creamy Chicken And Chorizo Pasta

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