Ingredients
Scale
- 2 chicken breasts, chopped up into strips or medium chunks
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 100g baby spinach leaves
- 200g diced pumpkin
- 200g grated cheese of choice
Pasta dough
- 300g 00 flour
- 3 large eggs
- 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil, flavoured olive oils are delicious in homemade pasta
- Pinch of salt
Tomato and Roasted Capsicum Sauce
- 800g diced tomatoes
- 200g roasted capsicum
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 10 basil leaves, sliced into strips
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Salt and pepper, to taste
White sauce
- 800g milk
- 80g plain flour
- 80g butter
- Salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
Pasta dough
- Place flour into a food processor.
- Mix on high for 10 seconds to aerate.
- Add remaining ingredients.
- Process on medium-high for 2 minutes.
- Small pebble like dough will form. Press a small handful together to see if it comes together. If too dry add a little extra oil and knead to combine.
- Pour out onto a clean bench and knead to form a smooth solid ball. If the dough is sticky dust with some extra flour and process again to incorporate. You want a nice soft, smooth dough.
- Allow it to rest for 60 minutes before rolling.
Tomato and Roast Capsicum Sauce
- Pour all tomato and roasted capsicum sauce into a saucepan. Similar over a medium heat whilst chicken and pumpkin are cooking.
Chicken
- Coat chicken in paprika, salt and pepper.
- Place chicken into bottom steaming tray in a steamer suitable for the stovetop. You can fry in a frying pan if preferred.
- Place the pumpkin into the top steaming tray suitable for the stovetop. You can steam in the microwave if preferred.
- Steam over a high heat for 10-20 minutes or until pumpkin is soft.
Pasta dough
- Using a pasta machine roll out into 8 thin, long lasagne sheets. You will need to long sheets for each layer.
Chicken
- Add steamed chicken to food processor. It is ok if it’s not cooked completely as you will be baking it for 45 minutes.
- Shred by pulsing for a second at a time until desired consistency is achieved.
- Set aside.
White sauce
- Place butter into sauce pan and melt over medium heat.
- Add flour once butter has melted.
- Whisk to combine and continuously stir for two minutes to cook the flour. You don’t want this to burn however.
- Slowly add the milk and continuously whisk to ensure there are no lumps.
- Whisk over the heat until thickened.
Assembly
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
- Place a little sauce on the bottom of a large rectangle baking dish.
- Add two of the pasta sheets.
- Layer spinach, steamed pumpkin and chicken on the pasta layer.
- Top with a little sauce.
- Top with two pasta sheets.
- Repeat the layers until all the ingredients are used.
- Finish with a pasta layer.
- Top with white sauce.
- Prep Time: 75
- Cook Time: 45
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 8