Creamy Roasted Red Pepper Pasta With Grilled Chicken
Do I ever not add grilled chicken to pasta? :) I love grilled chicken with pretty much any meal and it goes so well with pasta, so yes you do find it in a lot of pasta recipes I share, and it pairs perfectly with this Roasted Red Pepper Pasta. Add the chicken is a great way to add lean protein to your meal and I just love the flavor of grilled chicken. If course if you’d prefer to make it vegetarian you can make it without the chicken.
Red Pepper Sauce
This pasta sauce is so easy to make and it’s deliciously flavorful thanks to those roasted red peppers. And I went the cheater route here to keep this simple for weeknight meals and just used roasted red peppers in the jar. If you wanted to roast your own it would probably be about 3 fresh. Note that your sauce will be more of a creamy-ish red/orange/pink just when finished but as it sites for a few minutes it will get this bright orange/reddish color (which is so hard for me to take a picture of btw, I know these pictures are kind of wow. I hate oranges), so just fyi if you are wondering why yours isn’t quite as bold. Either way, this pasta is delicious and it makes for the perfect weeknight meal! If you don’t have both fresh basil or parsley feel free to use one or the other.
Ingredients and Substitutions for Creamy Roasted Red Pepper Pasta Sauce
Make your roasted red pepper sauce pasta vegan by using vegan parmesan instead of the usual grated parmesan cheese, milk from mild nuts like cashews, vegetable broth in place of chicken broth, etc. Any pasta will taste amazing, but I like long noodles or rigatoni.
