Spicy Chicken Pasta

Total Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 1/2 cup penne pasta
• 4 chicken breasts, cut into 1-inch pieces
• 1 plum tomato, sliced
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1/4 chili flakes
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 3 cups baby spinach
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• salt

Recipe

• 1 in a large pot of boiling unsalted water cook the penne pasta until al dente, adding the chicken during the last 2 mins of cooking.
• 2 reserve 1/4 cup pasta water.
• 3 drain the pasta and chicken, return to pot.
• 4 in the pot, add the tomato , tomato paste, garlic, oil ,chili flakes and spinach. season with salt and toss it well.
• 5 cook over medium heat tossing until spinach is barely wilted about 1 minute.
• 6 remove pot from th heat, stir in the the lemon juice and enough pasta water to make a thin sauce that coats the pasta.
• 7 season with salt if necessary and serve immediately.