Grilled Spinach And Asparagus Pasta

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 lbs chicken breasts (3-4 breasts)
• 8 ounces whole wheat spaghetti
• 1 (10 ounce) box frozen spinach
• 4 -5 sticks asparagus
• 2 tomatoes
• 4 tablespoons goat cheese
• 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 1 1/2 garlic cloves
• 1 teaspoon basil
• 1 tablespoon olive oil

Recipe

• 1 defrost chicken and boil water (make sure to add 1/2 teaspoon salt) and heat pan with some olive oil.
• 2 add asparagus to boiling water and heat for 5 minutes, add spinich to pan to defrost and separate.
• 3 remove chicken from defrost and cut into slices, sprinkle with black pepper, salt, 1/2 tsp basil and 1/2 tsp minced garlic. remove asparagus to other plate.
• 4 add spagetti to water where the asparagus was for approximately 10 minutes and remove heated spinich to a separate plate. add more oil to pan and add chicken.
• 5 cut asparagus into 1.5 inch pieces. brown the chicken. cut up tomatoes into bite size pieces, not diced.
• 6 remove pasta from pot and strain. place pasta back into the pot to evaporate the water still left in the pasta (learned this technique on the food network).
• 7 sprinkle the pasta with parmesan cheese and dice up some goat cheese to place on top when finished.
• 8 mix in the chicken, spinich, asparagus, tomatoes, 1/2 tsp basil, 1/2 tsp garlic, and a dash of black pepper. mix it all together.
• 9 plate it, add goat cheese to the top, and the people eating the dish will mix it inches.