Baked Chicken Pasta And 6th Blog Anniversary!!!!

Hi friends....My blog is 6 years today...got many friends here...thank you for ur support for me to reach here...Thanking my family,relatives and all my friends for all the encouragement all gave me these years which kept me try new recipes and improve my cooking as well.....

The holy month of Ramadan is here and all will be busy with prayers....And again time for many yummy dishes for iftar.....This time we are thinking of a non fried iftar table...again when kids are fasting they need something fried and desserts too...1st day of iftar was completed without fried snacks..will see how will be the whole month....Insha allah will try the best for  healthy iftars....Ramadan Kareem To All....

Today I'm posting a baked dish which can be made for iftar also....this is a full meal...

Ingredients:

For Pasta:

2c Pasta
Water
Salt
Oil

For Marinating Chicken:

2big pc Chicken Breast
3tsp Steak spices
Oil

For Red Sauce:

1Big Tomato
2tbsp Tomato paste
2tbsp Tomato Ketchup
2cloves Garlic
Salt
1tspSugar
1tspVinegar
Oil

For White Sauce:

2tbsp Butter
2tbsp All purpose flour
1c Milk
1/2c Cooking cream
1/2tsp Oregano
1/4tsp Parsley
1/4tsp Basil
Salt

For Topping:

Mozarella cheese
Bread crumbs

Method:

1.Cook pasta with salt and drain the excess water and keep aside.

For Chicken:

1.Marinate the chicken with steak spices and keep for sometimes.
2.In a pan heat little oil and shallow fry the chicken pcs till done.
3.Now cut the pc into cubes and keep aside.

For Red Sauce:

1.Heat oil in a pan add the chopped garlic and saute.
2.Add the chopped tomatoes and saute till it is soft.
3.Add the tomato paste and tomato ketchup.
4.Add little water and boil.
5.Add salt,sugar and vinegar.
6.Keep aside.

For White Sauce:

1.Melt the butter in a pan and add the chopped garlic.
2.Saute it and add the flour to the butter and saute till the raw smell goes off.
3.Now add the milk and cream to this and mix well till it reaches a creamy texture.
4.Add the spices and salt.
5.Mix well and set aside.

Baking:

1.In a baking tray spread half of the white sauce.
2.Now mix the pasta and red sauce together and layer it over the white sauce.
3.Now layer the prepared chicken over the pasta.
4.Now spread the rest white sauce over the chicken.
5.Now put mozarella cheese over the sauce.
6.Now put some bread crumbs over the cheese.
7.Preheat the oven at 200 degree C for 10 mins.
8.Bake the pasta at 180 degree  C for 10 to 15 mins or till the top portion is brown.
9.Enjoy the chicken pasta...