pasta

Name: Bang Bang Chicken Pasta
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 12 oz pasta; 1 lbs chicken breast, boiled and cut up, optional; 1/2 cup mayonnaise; 1/2 cup sweet chili sauce; 1 tbsp honey; 1 tbsp sriracha sauce; 1 tbsp lime juice

Bang Bang Chicken Pasta – 30 Minute Meal

by Ashley Mullen

This has to be my favorite budget meal ever! This bang bang chicken pasta is delicious and so easy to customize to your taste. You can also customize it to your budget and whatever you have in your house. This recipe is fast and easy to make and one to keep around for busy days.

Bang Bang Chicken Pasta – 30 Minute Meal

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Pasta is a favorite around here, the kids love to eat it and it is very budget friendly, perfect for when you are running low on groceries or maybe your grocery budget is low this week.

What you need:

12 oz pasta
1 lbs chicken breast, boiled and cut up, optional

Sauce:

1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup sweet chili sauce
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp sriracha sauce
1 tbsp lime juice

How to make Bang Bang Chicken Pasta

When you are looking for something for supper and you’re digging around in the freezer to see what you have and you find one lonely chicken breast, you get creative. And cut it up quite small so it goes farther.

Cook your pasta according to the instructions on the package, or by tossing into a pot and forgetting about it for a bit while doing other things like me. You can use whatever pasta you have on hand, I used penne this time but have also use spaghetti and spirals.

Bang Bang Chicken Pasta - 30 Minute Meal

I also boiled the lonely chicken breast I found in my freezer and diced it up. This is optional, you don’t have to add chicken, it tastes amazing without it, and pasta is great at filing up without adding meat to it.

In a bowl or large measuring cup mix together the mayonnaise, sweet chili sauce, honey, sriracha sauce, and lime juice. I do add a splash of hot sauce because we like a little more heat to ours.

Once the pasta and chicken are cooked, I dice up the chicken breast, and mix everything – chicken, pasta, and sauce – together in a large bowl.

Bang Bang Chicken Pasta

Yield: 4

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 25 minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

12 oz pasta
1 lbs chicken breast, boiled and cut up, optional

Sauce

1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup sweet chili sauce
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp sriracha sauce
1 tbsp lime juice

Instructions

Cook pasta according to package instructions.
Once pasta and chicken are ready, toss together in a large.
Mix together the sauce in a bowl or measuring cup and pour over and mix into the chicken and pasta.

Nutrition Information:

Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1 grams
Amount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g

Look at that recipe, super easy to make. And easy to customize to your taste. I like to add a splash of hot sauce as we like a little more heat in ours.

We top our bang bang chicken pasta with crispy fried onions that I get from Costco. We top a lot of our meals with these because they are that yummy, not healthy, but yummy.

Easy Balsamic Veggie Pasta

by Ashley Mullen

When you add a puppy to your family things get a little out of whack and you forget to think about things like supper. Eventually however, people need to be feed, no matter how much fun we’re all having playing we need to eat. This balsamic veggie pasta is easy to make, easy to throw together when you have forgotten to make supper.

This is a great budget friendly, meatless meal. Healthy and filling.

Easy Balsamic Veggie Pasta

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We have been becoming big on roasted veggies. I buy bags of frozen mixed veggies from Costco, frozen because there is less chances of them getting lost in the fridge and going bad.

But also, frozen veggies have a more likely chance of being used in a meal instead of my kids snacking on them instead. Big vegetable eaters my kids. Which, I love, but sometimes it’s nice to actually have the vegetables for meal time too.

What you need:

3 cups pasta
1 ⁄2 tsp Sriracha hot sauce
1 Tbsp EVOO
1 ⁄4 cup soy sauce
2 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
1 ⁄2 tsp ground ginger
4 cups uncooked mixed vegetables

How to make Easy Balsamic Veggie Pasta:

Take a cookie sheet and line with parchment paper. Bake in your oven at 425. This is how we all love our veggies at supper time. We’ll actually “fight” over them, that’s how much we love them.

We don’t like mushy vegetables, we like them roasted and delicious. This is how I made them for this pasta dish as well. Simply bake until golden brown and slightly crispy.

Cook 3 cups of pasta following the directions on your pasta.

While the pasta and veggies are cooking, mix up the sauce. Simply just toss all the ingredients together in a bowl, or measuring cup.

Tasty Chicken, Broccoli and Pasta Skillet - pasta

All very simple, and not time consuming at all. Perfect for those days when you kind of forget to make supper until the last minute.

When the vegetables and pasta are cooked, toss everything together in a bowl (or large pot). We added a little bacon bits to the top of ours for a little extra.

Another you could top this with would be French’s Crispy Fried Onions. We actually have an auto subscribe set up for these.

I hope you enjoy this as much as we do.