Pasta With Spinach Sauce

by Maggie Taher

Maggie—who sometimes cooks—shares her recipe for pasta with spinach sauce, grilled chicken, and roasted peppers.

Ingredients:

• Fettuccine

• 1 medium yellow onion

• 2 cups of spinach
  

• 2 medium garlic cloves

• 2 medium red peppers

• Chicken breast

• Cottage cheese

• Milk

• Butter

• Olive oil

• Garlic powder

• Italian spices

• Smoked paprika

• Chicken stock cube

• Salt

• Pepper
  

Steps:

1. Season the chicken breast with salt, pepper, garlic powder, Italian spices and smoked paprika. In a skillet, add butter and olive oil and cook the chicken for 5 to 7 minutes on each side then let it rest before cutting

2. Drizzle some olive oil on the garlic cloves and red peppers and season with salt and pepper, cover with foil and roast in the oven for around 20 to 25 minutes.

3. Let the red peppers cool down then remove the skin and slice the roasted peppers.

4. In a pan, add butter, chopped yellow onions and spinach. Cook for a couple of minutes then, blend with some pasta water, chicken stock cube and the roasted garlic.

5. Transfer the spinach sauce back to the pan and add the cooked pasta.

6. Top the pasta with cottage cheese, roasted red peppers and the grilled chicken.