LAYERED CHICKEN STEAKLET GNOCCHI PASTA

 

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This Recipe Serves 4-6

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This Layered Chicken Steaklet Gnocchi Pasta is a twist away from the plain old lasagna dishes. It is a quick & easy dish that the whole family will love.

Pasta is a staple food of customary Italian cooking. It is additionally generally used to allude to the assortment of pasta dishes. Pasta is, regularly a noodle produced using an unleavened mixture of a durum wheat flour blended with water & framed into sheets or different shapes, then cooked & served in any number of dishes.

 

Layered Chicken Steaklet Gnocchi Pasta Ingredients:

• 4 chicken steaklets
• 4 tablespoons cooking oil + additional 2 teaspoons for pasta
• 1 teaspoon ginger & garlic paste
• salt to taste
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 8 jam/rosa tomatoes
• 2 tablespoons tomato sauce
• 250 grams cottage cheese or 250 grams ricotta
• 1 egg
• 2 cups cheese as per your choice – I have used 1 cup gouda & 1 cup mozzarella
• 250 grams gnocchi pasta (or pasta of your choice)
• 2 teaspoons dried mixed herbs
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 2 teaspoons chicken spice

Method:

1. Heat a pot of water. Add salt to taste & allow for the water to boil. Once it reaches a boil, add in the pasta & 2 teaspoons of cooking oil. Mix well & allow the pasta to cook for about 10 minutes. Strain the cooked pasta in a colander & set aside.
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3. Blanch tomatoes in the microwave & chop the onion.
4. Heat 2 tablespoons cooking oil in a pot & drop in the onions.
5. Add the blanched tomatoes to the onions & cook on medium heat for about 10 minutes.
6. Add in the chicken spice, garlic powder & dried mixed herbs.
7. Drop in the tomato sauce and mix well until combined. This is now a simple marinara sauce.
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9. Next empty the contents of ricotta or cottage cheese into a bowl & crack an egg into it.
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11. Mix well until combined & set aside.
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13. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a skillet & fry the chicken steaklets until crisp & cooked throughout.
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15. Grate cheese & set aside.
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17. Get a large casserole that it oven safe & begin layering the pasta dish.
18. First start by layering a coat of the marinara sauce.
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20. Then spread a layer of the gnocchi pasta.
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22. Coat the pasta with a layer of the ricotta/cottage cheese & egg mixture.
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24. Sprinkle some cheese.
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26. Add more marinara sauce.
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28. Gently place the fried chicken steaklets over & cut if necessary to fill in gaps.
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30. Sprinkle over more cheese.
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32. Layer over more pasta.
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34. Spread the last layer of ricotta/cottage cheese & egg mixture.
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36. Spread the final layer of marinara sauce.
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38. Top off with remaining cheese.
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40. Place in the oven at 180º C for 15 minutes.
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42. Enjoy whilst cheese is gooey & hot.
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