The fresh blackberries in these muffins can be transformed into a delicious breakfast treat. Excellent when topped with oat crumbs.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 8 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 pound penne pasta
- 2 tablespoons butter, divided
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, trimmed of fat and cut crosswise into 1/4-inch slices
- 2 tablespoons Cajun-style blackened seasoning
- 4 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 large red onion, cut into wedges
- 1 green bell pepper, seeded and sliced into strips
- 1 red bell pepper, seeded and sliced into strips
- 1 yellow bell pepper, seeded and sliced into strips
- 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- ¼ teaspoon curry powder
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 (24 ounce) jars meatless spaghetti sauce
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook until tender but still firm, about 8 minutes. Drain.
- Meanwhile, melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a wok or large skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken pieces; cook and stir until browned. Season with blackened seasoning, and remove the chicken from the wok and set aside.
- Melt the remaining butter in the wok over medium-high heat. Add the garlic and onion; cook and stir until fragrant and beginning to brown. Add the green, red and yellow pepper strips, and season with red pepper flakes, curry powder, salt and pepper. Cook and stir until the peppers are hot. Return the chicken to the wok and pour in the spaghetti sauce. Heat through and serve over pasta.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 457 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 68 g |
| Cholesterol | 45 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 7 g |
| Protein | 25 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 1107 mg |
| Sugars | 18 g |
| Fat | 10 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
After one of my sisters sent me this recipe from YouTube, I decided to make it today. I added a red onion (accidentally) but it added great additional flavor.
This recipe was simple and the end result was very good! Be sure to use a sauce you like – it very much impacts the end result. That may be the reason for some people not giving it a high rating. End result is only as good as the ingredients. Mine was delicious!
I liked it but I wasn’t raving. I used olive oil instead of butter. I always cut the amount of pasta in half because otherwise it’s carb overload. This way I was able to only use one jar of sauce.
good recipe… has a nice kick. I think I’ll keep it in my recipe box, but next time I will substitute the chicken for sausage.
Great party dish! Invite friends over for a laid back evening and prepare this, you will be glad you did.
This has been one of my favorite recipes for years made as is. Doesn’t need a thing changed. I will say though that I spent some time off pastas etc and just added extra peppers and chicken and ate without the pasta. Still yummy that way too!
I thought this would be weird. However, it was quite delicious! A little spicy for me, so next time I will cut back a bit. Dont let the random ingredients frighten you (I never thought curry, cajun and spaghetti sauce would go together!)
Great hit with the entire family, and a fun diversion on pasta and red sauce. Tonight, I had all the ingredients except green pepper, so I substituted yellow squash, and otherwise followed recipe other than using olive oil instead of butter and serving red pepper flakes to top after after serving. (Okay, I also probably used twice as much curry, since we halved the recipe for the four of us.) We’re a household of spicy food fans, so didn’t need bread to dilute the heat. Delightful twist to regular pasta and sauce! I used a can of Hunt’s herb & garlic pasta sauce. I loved the freshness of the peppers and the yellow squash I added, which is great in this, after a quick stir-fry, so I wouldn’t simmer for 15 min., as suggested by another review. HINT: Get water boiling for pasta, and throw pasta into boil AFTER browning and setting chicken aside. Everything should be finished at about the same time. Definite make-again for us! Loved the easy one-pot cleanup, too. Thanks, Linda.
We had a restaurant here named Rasta Pasta and they used wet Jamaican Jerk seasoning. You can find it online. You can still add the curry powder and garlic. We use garlic, a can of tomatoes some basil and jerk seasoning with the chicken over pasta.
Very tasty just as written. I had used a similar recipe before but this one is much “prettier” for a perfect presentation. I didn’t use curry after the first batch but that’s just a personal preference.
Tried this recipe as is. Found it good but the flavour between the pasta and the sauce to be flat. Liked the blackened chicken but rest just tasted like I cooked the pasta, threw in the sauce & served.
Nice twist on traditional pasta. Me and husband loved it.
This is the same picture used for recipe “Blackened Chicken Pasta”?
Wonderful recipe, as is. A family favorite. However, it has nothing to do with traditional vegetarian Jamaican Rasta Pasta, which includes ackee and no curry powder or cajun seasoning.
Fantastic sauce! I could have licked my plate clean!
Very good I really like the spice of this dish. I just wish it wasn’t 103 outside when I chose to make it.
I have made this recipe about five times so far. The only thing I usually change up is that sometimes I serve it over different types of pasta besides penne or even over rice. Even better the next day. It is pretty straightforward, if you like the ingredients that go into this dish you will like it.
Restaurant quality?? Really? This was okay – nothing special…
Spicy and delicious. Several friends asked for the recipe!
This is a family favorite in our house! I use rotini instead of penne pasta because hubs prefers it and add some extra Ragu because he likes his pasta saucy. When I want a less spicy meal, I omit the cajun seasoning and it still has plenty of flavor.
We loved this!!! Will be used much in the future, by us and the friends we shared it with. My husband wants to try “Rasta Rice” next. Thank you for a new family favorite!