News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Jan. 26, 2018: After the holidays, as chefs, we like to prepare quick meals. Pasta is ideal for making quick meals! One of my favorite pasta quick meals is Jerk chicken pasta and vegetable medley!
The recipe for this dish is as follows:
Ingredients
4 cups cooked pasta
1/2 of a whole cooked jerk chicken(remove the meat from the bone and cut in small pieces)
3 cups cut up raw cabbage
I cup frozen corn ( thawed)
1 cup frozen green peas ( thawed)
2 ounce coconut oil
Salt
Cayenne pepper to taste
1/2 cup chopped onions
1/2 red sweet pepper
2 chopped cloves of Garlic
1/4 cup soya sauce
Method
Heat the oil in Dutch pot
Sauté chopped onions, sweet peppers and garlic
Add the chopped jerk chicken meat
Add the chopped cabbage
Add the pasta, using a fork mix all ingredients
Cover and cook for 5 minutes
Add corn and peas and mix all ingredients and cook for 5 more minutes.
Add salt
Add Cayenne pepper
Mix in soya sauce and cook for 5 more minutes.
Serve Hot And Bon Appetite!
EDITOR’S NOTE: Minna LaFortune is a trained Caribbean caterer and also president of the Society for the Advancement of the Caribbean Diaspora (SACD). Check out her food group on Facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/bestfood scaribbean/