Cavatelli with chicken, pancetta, peas and cream from A Bird in the Hand: Chicken Recipes for Every Day and Every Mood (page 209) by Diana Henry

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  • averythingcooks on November 22, 2023

    I really enjoyed this creamy chicken pasta. I used penne, a combo of lemon herb butter + lemon basil pesto that were both lurking in the freezer and a pretty heavy hand with the parmesan. For 1/2, I cut the pasta to 3 oz and added some diced red pepper with the onion etc. I'm very happy to still have some tucked away for today's lunch :)

  • Anea25 on November 15, 2023

    Used leftover Thanksgiving turkey and it worked great. It is quite simple but easy and tasty for a week-night dinner

  • Melyinoz on March 17, 2018

    Quick, tasty and uses leftovers. What more could you want?

  • veronicafrance on June 04, 2017

    Utterly fabulous! It will become my new default way of using the last few scraps of a chicken, instead of risotto -- you really need very little, and the tiniest scraps will do. I agree with Diana that short pasta works perfectly. I used trofie, but penne or macaroni would be OK too. I didn't have any pancetta, so I used bacon, and I couldn't be bothered to go out looking for wild mint, so I used basil from the pot on the windowsill. I agree with everyone else that the lemon zest really lifts it above the ordinary. Excellent garlicky gravy from the pot-roasted chicken helped too.

  • Zosia on March 23, 2017

    Such a quick and delicious way to use up leftover cooked chicken - good enough that I would even cook chicken just to make it. The lemon and mint were particularly nice additions. I used half the cream and added pasta cooking water to make up the balance of liquid.

  • Gio on April 14, 2016

    Pg 209. Love this recipe! Have made it twice so far and now it's in a loose kind of rotation. Used the recipe exactly as printed the first time. Last night I subbed Farfalle for the Cavatelli, and mixed vegetables for the peas. A half bag of Trader Joe's frozen Vegetable Hodgepodge, to be exact. It's a combo of " broccoli florets, julienne sliced carrots, red pepper strips, onion strips, sliced mushroom, sugar snap peas, baby cut cob corn, sliced water chestnuts", that worked perfectly with the pasta.

  • Astrid5555 on July 15, 2015

    One of the best chicken leftover recipes in a long time, very simple yet delicious. Adding lemon to the otherwise very basic ingredients adds a delicious twist. Will go into the regular rotation.

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