Supposedly Simple Chicken Fettuccine?

I assumed a pasta meal with a few ingredients wouldn’t take long, but I was wrong. This is my recipe for creamy chicken fettuccine, made from ingredients you can generally find in the pantry.

Ingredients needed to get started:

1. Fettuccine pasta (or any other pasta of your choice)
2. 200g sliced mushrooms
3. 1 green capsicum
4. 2 onions
5. 600ml thickened cream
6. 2 fillets of breast chicken - approximately, half a kilo or more
7. Salt
8. Pepper
9. Olive oil
10. 2 cloves of garlic


Step 1: Prepare the ingredients


Cook pasta in a large saucepan filled with boiling hot water and add a pinch of salt. Cook on medium to high heat until the pasta becomes soft then drain water later.

Begin chopping the vegetables starting off with the capsicum in large chunks then the onions and chicken which will all then be used in the pasta sauce.

Gather other ingredients.

Once the pasta has finished cooking, start preparing the sauce by placing around two-thirds of the chopped onion in a frypan with enough olive oil to fill the pan. 
Cook onion on a low heat until it goes yellow.

Add the capsicum and mushroom to the onion.

Add grated garlic to the vegetable mixture (should have been added when I was cooking the onion).

Prepare another frypan with about 2/3 tablespoons of oil placing it on a high heat. Add the chicken and remaining onion (could have used same pan and placed the vegetables on the side in a plate but there was heaps of things to cook).

Cook chicken until it turns white and starts to brown. Season the chicken with salt and peper.

Add the cooked chicken to the vegetable mix then add the cream to simmer.

Once the mixture has been combined with cream, add the pasta to the sauce and cook on a low heat to warm the pasta overall.

Mix it all together.

Serve and ready to eat.

Result: The preparation part and having to chop the chicken + vegetables (minus the mushrooms because they were already sliced) took me ages so I’m glad that I didn’t use basil or other vegetables. The pasta did get a little stuck together and I had issues with the seasoning. I should have cooked the garlic with the onion in the beginning and the salt’n’pepper levels were not balanced. The chicken tasted more peppery and a bit bland so should have put more salt or just sprinkle salt’n’pepper in the raw stage. I wish I used more mushroom and smaller capsicum pieces.

- WeCannotCook