## Chicken Pasta Bake
I love a good pasta bake. They're simple, and very easy to make from not a whole lot of ingredients. And the jars of sauces for them make them even easier and tend to be pretty reliable. In the salvage box that I brought back from Mum's, I had this one. There's no serve photo as I took it over to my partner's place for dinner and we ate it all. It was however, delicious and well recieved by them.
<sup>I'd have a shot of it served up, but this is as close as it got before we devoured it</sup>
### Ingredients
* 200 grams spiral pasta
* 1 jar Dolmio Pasta Bake (Creamy Tomato & Mozzarella)
* 1 tablespoon Oil
* 1 Chicken Breast, diced
* 1 Broccoli, cut into bite sized florets
* 3 Spring Onions, finely sliced
* 2-3 Shortcut Bacon, diced
* 1 Onion, chopped
* 1 cup Shredded Cheese
* handful Shredded Parmesan
<sup>Another ingredients photo, another with a bunch of missing ingredients</sup>
### Method
* Prepare all the ingredients
<sup>I really could have sliced a bunch of the larger pieces and halved them</sup>
<sup>Could also have done with ignoring the packet instructions and had 300 instead</sup>
<sup>**Onion** and **Spring Onion**, **Chicken**, **Bacon**. All ready to go</sup>
* Heat water in a saucepan and cook the **Pasta** to about 2 minutes under packet instructions.
<sup>later on you'll remove and drain the pasta and it will look something like this</sup>
* Melt the **Oil** in the wok
* Add the Chicken and cook until browned on all sides. Don't overcook, as it will get more time in the pan and in the oven to cook through.
<sup>Chicken cooking in Coconut oil. </sup>
* Remove the Chicken to a bowl
* Add the Onions to the wok and stir fry quickly over high heat
<sup>They'll pick up some of the colour from the chicken oil, but don't want too much colour yet</sup>
* Add the Bacon and continue stir fry until the bacon appears to be changing colour, and the Onion is browning.
* Add the **Broccoli**
<sup>A bit hard to see the changed colour of the bacon or onion under all that green</sup>
* Cook for about 5 minutes to get some heat into the Broccoli
* Add Chicken, and any accumulated juices, back into the wok
<sup>Hopefully the green stems of the Broccoli have darkened as part of them starting to cook. </sup>
* Stirfry for about 5 minutes to mix everything together and allow the juices to evaporate.
* Pour the contents of the wok into a large bowl with the Pasta
* Add the jar of **Sauce** to the bowl.
* Put about 1/4 cup water into the jar and reseal.
* Shake well to get all the sauce into the liquid and add to the bowl
* Mix the bowl contents well
<sup>A well mixed bowl of pasta, sauce, and other ingredients</sup>
* Pour the mixed ingredients into a baking dish. Spray it first so it doesn't stick.
* Sprinkle the top with the **Shredded Cheese** and **Parmesan**
<sup>Ready to go into the oven</sup>
* Let it bake for 20 minutes or until the cheese is golden.
<sup>My little portable oven doing what it's supposed to do</sup>
* Let it cool for a little to allow for easier slicing, or just serve it up hot and it will collapse over the plate.
<sup>Yup, you don't get to see a single serving as my family ate it all</sup>
### Thoughts
* I should have used my smaller dish, as it turned out quite shallow in the lasagna dish I inherited
* Or more pasta. The balance between pasta and other ingredients was out. Another 100 grams of pasta could really help bulk it out too.
* As mentioned earlier, smaller broccoli pieces would have been really good too.
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<sup>Upgoats made by the talented @ryivhnn</sup>
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