This Chicken and Vegetable Pasta Bake is the perfect way to sneak some extra veggies into your family’s diet. It’s delicious, easy to make, and a great way to use leftover vegetables in your fridge. Give it a try and see how quickly your kids will gobble up their greens without realising it!
This Chicken and Vegetable Pasta Bake is packed with chicken, pasta, loads of fresh vegetables, and cheese, this dish combines flavours everyone in the family will love. And the best part: since it involves hiding veggies in the sauce, you can sneak them into your kids’ meals without any complaints. Plus, it’s an inexpensive meal that won’t break the bank – so you can feed your entire family without breaking your budget.
Not only is this Chicken and Vegetable Pasta Bake a great way to prevent waste, but you can also easily customise it by adding in whatever vegetables you have on hand. The possibilities are endless, you could try capsicum, broccoli, zucchini, or spinach.
Ingredients
Method
- Preheat oven to 180°C, fan forced.
- In a large saucepan, cook pasta following packet directions.
- Add the zucchini and cauliflower to the pasta in the last 2 minutes of cooking. Drain and return to saucepan.
- Meanwhile, make the cheese sauce. Melt butter in medium-sized saucepan over medium-high heat until foaming.
- Add flour, then cook and stir for 1-2 minutes or until mixture bubbles and begins to come away from the side of the pan. Remove from heat.
- Gradually pour in milk, and whisk continuously until the mixture is smooth.
- Return saucepan over medium-high heat and bring to a boil, stir continuously for 5 minutes or until the sauce thickens.
- Remove from heat. Add the parmesan cheese and stir until cheese melts. Season with salt, pepper and nutmeg, set aside.
- Pour cheese sauce over pasta and vegetables, stir through the chicken.
- Spoon pasta mixture into a 4L capacity baking dish.
- Sprinkle with tasty cheese and breadcrumbs
- Bake pasta bake in oven for 20-30 minutes or until golden. Serve.
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9 comments
Um… yum is all I can say! Great food for a Friday evening, although I’ve just seen your link to a chicken and roast pumpkin bake….decisions decisions :o)
Lots of love
Nahid Aley at http://www.thethingsiloveblog.com
it’s a great way to use whatever vegetables you have in the fridge. Ooh yes the pumpkin bake is so delicious, and that’s coming from somebody that dislikes pumpkin 🙂
Yum! I love how you have included yummy veggies in here! I love pasta but it’s made so much better with the addition of veggies! Thanks 🙂
Whoa, a whole chicken plus pasta and veg, surely you could use 1/2 a chicken and get two meals out of this. Great way to get the kids to eat cauliflower too.
Yet another win with my fussy family of 5! Thankyou for another fantastic meal, so yummy & easy to make!
Its great for kids cos the flavour isn’t over powering & we can sneak extra vegies in ;-)Thankyou! My family is loving your recipes!!
Love it Lisa, I’m so happy to hear they enjoyed it, and your right there is room for heaps more vegetables in this recipe, you could add brocolli, corn, carrots, cabbage, onion. What did you add?
This looks great. For my “anti-green” kids, I will peel then grate the zucchini
Great idea, Juli!
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