Pasta for lunch, prepared by me.

The cook took an off day today. I had some leftover for breakfast and asked my wife what she wanted to have. She asked what was in the fridge and we had some minced chicken. So she asked me to go make pasta with it.

I followed a simple recipe, that is inspired from Arrabbiata sauce. Wanted to share this simple recipe with you.

Right, first step is to take a look at key ingedients. There's spaghetti, and minced chicken. Then there is onion, tomatoes, garlic, dried basil, salt, red chillie and black pepper.

First, I diced the onions real thin. I also chopped the tomatoes and garlic to smaller chunks, to make it easier to blend them. Added the chopped tomatoes and the garlic to the blender and grinded the mix to a thin paste.

Next, I put a pan on the stove, poured some olive oil and once it was a little hot, added diced onions to it.

I waited for the onions to turn a little translucent. Then I added some black pepper and put the block of frozen minced chicken in the middle. I did not have time to defrost. So once the side of chicken block facing the pan was a little cooked, I would flip the block and scrape off the cooked bit. Kind of like a shawarma. Soon the whole mince was separate. I added dried basil to it next and let it cook, till the chicken turned a bit brown.

Then I added the tomato paste into the chicken, stirred it a bit and left it to cook and went on to make pasta.

Well, everyone knows how to boil pasta. After 15 minutes, the cooked chicken and tomato sauce will look like this.

Final shot.

I thoroughly enjoyed the dish. It is so versatile, you can try this will red meat, mushrooms, tuna. For garnish, one can use olives and cheese.

A tasty meal with a sense of accomplishment, Sunday can't be better.