Baked Chicken Tikka with Cheese Pasta

Baked Chicken Tikka with Cheese Pasta 

Recipe:

Ingredients:

• Fusilli / macaroni / penne / rigatoni / rotini
• Boneless chicken, boiled and shredded
• Cheddar cheese, shredded
• Shan / National chicken tikka masala
• Chili garlic tomato sauce
• Red pepper powder
• Salt
• Black pepper powder
• Three color bell peppers, chopped / sliced
• Oil
• Finely chopped / crushed dried parsley

Method:

• Preheat oven at 180'C.
• In boiling water with some salt, boil pasta till its reasonably tender. Then drain.
• Fry shredded chicken pieces in few drops of oil with chicken tikka masala according to taste.
• Keep chicken aside.
• In the same pan, add a little oil and add pasta. Stir it.
• Add chilli powder, chicken tikka masala and chilli garlic tomato sauce according to your liking. (I don't put a lot of tomato sauce).
• Add half of bell peppers.
• Stir-fry.
• Lightly grease an oven proof casserole dish and pour in pasta.
• Add chicken in layer.
• Add a layer of remaining bell peppers.
• Sprinkle lots of shredded cheddar cheese.
• Sprinkle a bit of finely chopped / crushed dried parsley and black pepper powder.
• Bake for 12-15 mins till cheese is lightly browned and bubbling.

~ Bon Appétit!