Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Chicken pasta

This lesson we made fresh tomato and chicken creamy pasta. The first thing we did was cook the pasta. We didn't know that we had to boil the water before we put the pasta in. So the pasta took twice as long as usual to cook. However a good lesson was learnt to always boil the water first. Next we halved the cherry tomatoes and cut the basil off the stem. Then we started the sauce. The chicken was added first and then once it was cooked through all the other ingredients were added. Lastly we put the sauce with the pasta and garnished the dish with basil leaves. This meal offered mostly all of the food groups. For veggies, tomato and basil. For dairy the cream. For protein the chicken. And the pasta gave us carbohydrates which will give us energy over time. I really enjoyed this dish and found it very tasty!