Recipe: Yummy Lemon pepper pasta with chicken

Lemon pepper pasta with chicken. This easy one-pot pasta is full of lemon-pepper chicken, spaghetti and fresh baby spinach, and is perfect for a weeknight dinner. Add a green salad and warm crusty bread, and you're all set! This lemon pepper chicken has a light breading on it, which comes out a deep golden brown when sauteed in a little olive oil.

Season chicken with salt and pepper. Heat a large grill pan over medium high and add chicken. Grill until golden and completely cooked. you can cook Lemon pepper pasta with chicken using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Lemon pepper pasta with chicken

1. Prepare 3 tbsp of olive oil, divided.
2. You need 1 lb of chicken breasts.
3. It's 1 of red onion, sliced into thin half moons.
4. Prepare 3 clove of garlic, minced.
5. It's 5 oz of slice baby portobello mushrooms.
6. You need 1 tsp of lemon pepper, divided.
7. Prepare 1 tsp of marjoram.
8. It's 1 tbsp of butter.
9. You need 1/2 of lemon, juice only.
10. It's 16 oz of angel hair pasta.
11. Prepare 1/2 cup of peas.

Add chicken to the warm pasta and season with salt and pepper. This homemade lemon pepper chicken is made with lemon, pepper, olive oil, garlic, flour and salt. The juice is a bit lemony, but mostly it is sour. But Lemon Pepper Chicken is not sour or even tangy.

Lemon pepper pasta with chicken step by step

1. Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in large nonstick skillet. Cut chicken into bite sized pieces and season both sides with 1/2 teaspoon lemon pepper..
2. Place chicken, garlic, onions, and mushrooms in pan and cook until chicken is browned, about 4 minutes per side..
3. Meanwhile, cook pasta according to package directions. During last minute of cooking time, ladle out and save 2/3 cup pasta water and add peas. When pasta is cooked, drain and toss with 1 tablespoon olive oil..
4. During the last minute of cooking the pasta, add the remaining tablespoon of olive oil, butter, lemon juice, marjoram, remaining 1/2 teaspoon of lemon pepper, and reserved 2/3 cup pasta water. Stir and scrape up brown bits..
5. Add pasta and peas to pan and toss until coated in sauce..

So anyway, I won't take you through the various methods I attempted before. My grandmother made chicken wings and served them over rice. To speed things up, I cook lemony chicken breasts and serve them over capellini pasta. This Lemon Pepper Chicken Pasta makes a great, easy and inexpensive meal for the family; just perfect for weeknight dinners. The juicy crispy lemon pepper chicken is served on a bed of lemon pasta, with enough pepper to make it interesting but mild enough for kids.