PASTA! PASTA! PASTA!

Hello! Happy November! There are many recipes that I want to post today so I will start immediately with one of my favourites recipe! Pappardelle with chicken breast, mushrooms and pumpkin! The sweet flavour of pumkin and the chicken combine perfectly at this recipe! 

Ingredients

2 servings

120 gr. pappardelle or other broad pasta
5  basil leaves 
3 cherry tomatoes
60 grams. pumpkin flesh
150 grams. chicken breast
100 ml. light cream
4 tbsps. butter
1 green pepper
1 tsp salt
A pinch of grated nutmeg
A pinch of pepper
70 gr. sliced ​​mushrooms
1 spring onion
Garlic powder

Process

Add pasta in salted boiling water. Pasta is correctly cooked when it is  al dente. Before you drain the pasta in a collander, keep 1/4 cup water that you use it later. Drain the pasta and leave aside. Next slice the chicken breast and chop the pumpkin into small cubes. In a pan add the butter over high heat. When heated, add the chicken and the pumpkin. After ten minutes, add the mushrooms and cook for another 5 minutes. Pour the water that you have kept when you cooked the pasta and the light cream in the pan. Salt and pepper. Add the garlic and the nutmeg. When the sauce starts to boil, add the chopped onion and the chopped pepper. Let them cook for 10 minutes. In the meantime halve the cherry tomatoes and add them to the pasta. Serve the pasta. Garnish with the basil leaves and add the chicken and pumkin sauce!  

Enjoy!

ORANGE POWER

Pumpkin reminds many people Halloween. Greek cuisine doesn’t include pumpkins widely, apart from the pumpkin pies whose receipts are quite regional. The recipe that follows is a creamy, smooth sweet dessert with pumpkin, carrot and orange. You can enjoy it on its own or combine it with biscuits, chocolate syrup or whipped cream! Really tasty, really orange!

Ingredients

 2 servings

• 200 gr. Pumpkin
• 1 carrot
• 2 zested and juiced oranges
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• Vanilla extract (optionally)
• 1 cup milk
• 2 tablespoon caster powder
• 1 teaspoon butter

Steps

1. Chop the pumpkin at cubes.
2. Peel the carrot.
3. Boil the pumpkin and the carrot in a saucepan till they soften.
4. Drain them and put them in a food processor or electric chopper.
5. Preheat the half milk at low-medium temperature.
6. Add the melted pumpkin, the carrot and the butter.
7. Add the vanilla and the orange zest.
8. In a bowl combine well the sunflower powder and the other half of milk till the powder dissolved.
9. Add it to the boiling cream.
10. Add the orange juice.
11. Stir frequently.
12. Your cream is ready to serve it when it thickens.

 The smell will truly amaze you! So fresh and lovely!