Tuscan White Bean and Chicken Pasta
Tuscan White Bean and Chicken Pasta is an easy dish with Tuscan inspired flavour! Kale, swiss chard or any leafy green can be used.
Ingredients
- 8 oz dried pasta of choice
- 1 Tbsp Olive Oil
- 2 Tbsp Butter
- 2 Tbsp Flour
- 3 cloves Garlic minced
- 1 pint Cherry Tomatoes
- 1/2 tsp Dried Basil
- Reserved chicken leg meat picked
- 1 can White Beans (Cannellini/White Navy)
- 4 oz Spinach
- 8 Mushrooms sliced
- 1/4 cup Milk
- 1/4 cup Chicken Stock
- 1/2 cup Grated Parmesan Cheese
Instructions
- Fill large pot with water and bring to a boil, heavily salt the water and add pasta. Cook according to package directions (8-10 minutes depending on style and brand).
- While waiting for the pot to boil and pasta to cook, open the can of beans, strain and rinse.
- Heat a large pan over medium heat, add half of the butter and all of the olive oil, add the mushrooms once the butter is melted, cook stirring occasionally for 3-4 minutes, reduce heat to medium-low and add the garlic, cook for about a minute, add cherry tomatoes and continue to cook until the skins start to burst and they start to release their juices
- Add your flour and basil and stir into pan, slowly add the milk and stock and bring pan to a light simmer, add the spinach and beans, once spinach has begun to wilt add the picked chicken meat, remaining butter and your cooked pasta of choice.
- Season with salt and pepper. Top with grated Parmesan to serve.