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🍝 Warm pasta salad with chicken, mushrooms, and fresh vegetables
551 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 400 g Spaghetti
- 1 cucumber
- 4 spring onions
- 300 g mushrooms
- 4 ripe tomatoes
- 1 large garlic clove
- 1 handful basil
- 300 g chicken breast fillet
- olive oil (cold pressed)
- 4 tbsp lemon juice
- salt
- pepper (freshly ground)
Instructions
- 1. Wash the cucumber thoroughly and slice it into thin rounds.
- 2. Wash the spring onions, trim the ends, and cut them into 1 to 2 centimeter long pieces.
- 3. Wash two tomatoes, briefly pour boiling water over them, remove the skin, take out the seeds, and chop the flesh coarsely.
- 4. Wash the remaining two tomatoes, halve them, remove the seeds, and dice the flesh into very small cubes.
- 5. Place all prepared vegetable pieces (cucumber, spring onions, chopped tomatoes, and diced tomatoes) aside.
- 6. Peel the garlic clove and chop it roughly.
- 7. Put the garlic, some salt, and the basil leaves into a mortar and crush them into a paste.
- 8. Add the chopped tomato pieces from step 3 to the mortar contents and crush everything into a sauce.
- 9. Mix the tomato-garlic paste with 5 tablespoons of oil, the lemon juice, 2 tablespoons of water, and a pinch of salt.
- 10. Place the chicken breast fillet into boiling salted water.
- 11. Cook the meat for 5 to 6 minutes until it is fully cooked.
- 12. Remove the meat from the water and shred it with a fork or slice it into thin strips.
- 13. Clean the mushrooms and halve them.
- 14. Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a frying pan.
- 15. Fry the mushrooms in it until golden brown.
- 16. Season the mushrooms with salt and pepper.
- 17. Cook the pasta in plenty of salted water until very al dente (firm to the bite).
- 18. Drain the pasta, but keep some of the pasta cooking water in a cup for later use.
- 19. Place the pasta in a large bowl.
- 20. Add the fried mushrooms and the prepared sauce to the pasta.
- 21. Add 2 to 3 tablespoons of the pasta cooking water if needed.
- 22. Stir everything well to distribute the sauce.
- 23. Let the pasta cool down briefly until it is only warm and no longer hot.
- 24. Stir in another 2 tablespoons of pasta cooking water into the pasta mixture.
- 25. Fold in the chicken meat, the cucumber slices, the tomato cubes, and the spring onions.
- 26. Taste the salad again and adjust with salt and pepper.
- 27. Serve the salad immediately.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 551
- Protein: 35 g · Fett/Fat: 10 g · Carbs: 78 g