Gluten Free Spinach Tomato Penne w/chicken

Since I discovered I have Celiac Disease, my favorite gluten free dishes to cook have been pasta dishes.  With so many gluten free pastas on the market your choices are endless!  And although you may think Italian dishes are complicated, they are not.  Basically, most pasta recipes have one of two sauces:  fresh tomato and basil sauce or a cream sauce.  In this dish you will make your tomato sauce into a creamy tomato by using cream cheese.  But other cream sauces are basically a 1/2 and 1/2 cream slowly cooked with parmesan added for thickening. Any Italian dish you choose to make can be adapted to your own taste with fresh mushrooms, basil, red peppers, onions ect.  Let's get this new dish on the table...

Ingredients:
1 bag of gluten free penne
2 chicken breasts grilled
2 Tablespoons of olive oil
1 onion chopped
2-3 cloves of garlic minced depending on your taste
1 teaspoon each of basil & oregano
1/2 to 1 teaspoon of red pepper flakes depending on your taste
1/3 cup of parmesan
1  14oz  can of diced tomatoes
1/2 can of tomato paste
3 oz of cream cheese
2 cups of freshly chopped spinach
salt and pepper to taste
fresh mozzarella to top

Put the chicken on the grill and water on to boil while making the sauce

Place oil over a medium heat and add onion, garlic, basil, oregano, salt and pepper

Once the onion is transparent add the tomatoes and the paste and simmer. 
Do not simmer to the point of decreasing your liquid.

After this step of the sauce you should put your pasta on to boil because it is only about 10-12 min. to completion.
I can honestly say, ANY brand of gluten free pasta is just fine.  How wrong can you go?

Add cream cheese and melt.  Then add parmesan and spinach to the sauce.
About this time your chicken should be finished on the grill.  I go ahead and slice it and turn the grill off
to allow all sides to char. Grate your mozzarella put your dish together to serve!  

 

 

We do a family style plate.  I drain the pasta, place it on a large plate, top it with the sauce, then the chicken and finally the fresh mozzarella and some cracked pepper.  SERVE!!!!!

IN YOUR FACE GLUTEN!