Ingredients:
2 cups Ziti Penne pasta
½ lb boneless/skinless chicken breast shaved into thin wedges or cut into cubes
4 ozs broccoli crowns
1 carrot pealed and diced
2 tbls olive oil
½ cup HomeMade GF Chicken Broth
1 tsp Good Seasons Italian Salad Dressing (dry powder)
2 cloves garlic, diced
½ tsp lemon juice
Sprinkle of crushed red pepper (optional)
Salt & Pepper to taste
Preparation:
- Bring 2 qts of water (salted if you prefer) to a boil and cook Ziti al dente. Drain and rinse with hot tap water, leave in strainer, set aside. Save the water the Ziti was boiled in.
- While the Ziti is cooking, prepare chicken. In stickfree frying pan add olive oil and cook garlic until translucent.
- Add Italian salad dressing, lemon juice, chicken broth, salt & pepper (to taste) and heat over medium heat. Stir all ingredients into a sauce and then add chicken stirring and flipping until done (no pink when meat is cut).
- While chicken is cooking, add carrots to boiling Ziti water and cook until al dente and then add broccoli to the same water cooking for no more than 4-5 minutes. Strain but save a few ounces of hot water.
- Add cooked Ziti (pre-rinse in hot tap water once more), broccoli and carrots to sauce stirring so that Ziti is coated and if dry, 2 tbls water, mix, then transfer to one bowl or individual serving plates.
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