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🍝 Warm pasta salad with chicken, mushrooms, and fresh vegetables

551 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Wash the cucumber thoroughly and slice it into thin rounds.
  2. 2. Wash the spring onions, trim the ends, and cut them into 1 to 2 centimeter long pieces.
  3. 3. Wash two tomatoes, briefly pour boiling water over them, remove the skin, take out the seeds, and chop the flesh coarsely.
  4. 4. Wash the remaining two tomatoes, halve them, remove the seeds, and dice the flesh into very small cubes.
  5. 5. Place all prepared vegetable pieces (cucumber, spring onions, chopped tomatoes, and diced tomatoes) aside.
  6. 6. Peel the garlic clove and chop it roughly.
  7. 7. Put the garlic, some salt, and the basil leaves into a mortar and crush them into a paste.
  8. 8. Add the chopped tomato pieces from step 3 to the mortar contents and crush everything into a sauce.
  9. 9. Mix the tomato-garlic paste with 5 tablespoons of oil, the lemon juice, 2 tablespoons of water, and a pinch of salt.
  10. 10. Place the chicken breast fillet into boiling salted water.
  11. 11. Cook the meat for 5 to 6 minutes until it is fully cooked.
  12. 12. Remove the meat from the water and shred it with a fork or slice it into thin strips.
  13. 13. Clean the mushrooms and halve them.
  14. 14. Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a frying pan.
  15. 15. Fry the mushrooms in it until golden brown.
  16. 16. Season the mushrooms with salt and pepper.
  17. 17. Cook the pasta in plenty of salted water until very al dente (firm to the bite).
  18. 18. Drain the pasta, but keep some of the pasta cooking water in a cup for later use.
  19. 19. Place the pasta in a large bowl.
  20. 20. Add the fried mushrooms and the prepared sauce to the pasta.
  21. 21. Add 2 to 3 tablespoons of the pasta cooking water if needed.
  22. 22. Stir everything well to distribute the sauce.
  23. 23. Let the pasta cool down briefly until it is only warm and no longer hot.
  24. 24. Stir in another 2 tablespoons of pasta cooking water into the pasta mixture.
  25. 25. Fold in the chicken meat, the cucumber slices, the tomato cubes, and the spring onions.
  26. 26. Taste the salad again and adjust with salt and pepper.
  27. 27. Serve the salad immediately.

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