Recipe: Perfect Lemon pepper pasta with chicken

Lemon pepper pasta with chicken. Season chicken with lemon pepper, salt and black pepper. Due to the bulkiness of the spinach, it's helpful to add it to pasta in small batches. This simple and hearty lemon pepper pasta with chicken and vegetables will quickly become a weeknight favorite.

The butter sauce is optional, but it really adds a nice finishing touch and takes just a few minutes to make. I like to serve this chicken over rice or pasta with a green veggie on the. Season chicken with salt and pepper. You can cook Lemon pepper pasta with chicken using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Lemon pepper pasta with chicken

1. Prepare 3 tbsp of olive oil, divided.
2. You need 1 lb of chicken breasts.
3. Prepare 1 of red onion, sliced into thin half moons.
4. It's 3 clove of garlic, minced.
5. It's 5 oz of slice baby portobello mushrooms.
6. You need 1 tsp of lemon pepper, divided.
7. It's 1 tsp of marjoram.
8. Prepare 1 tbsp of butter.
9. You need 1/2 of lemon, juice only.
10. It's 16 oz of angel hair pasta.
11. You need 1/2 cup of peas.

Heat a large grill pan over medium high and add chicken. Grill until golden and completely cooked. Add chicken to the warm pasta and season with salt and pepper. This homemade lemon pepper chicken is made with lemon, pepper, olive oil, garlic, flour and salt.

Lemon pepper pasta with chicken instructions

1. Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in large nonstick skillet. Cut chicken into bite sized pieces and season both sides with 1/2 teaspoon lemon pepper..
2. Place chicken, garlic, onions, and mushrooms in pan and cook until chicken is browned, about 4 minutes per side..
3. Meanwhile, cook pasta according to package directions. During last minute of cooking time, ladle out and save 2/3 cup pasta water and add peas. When pasta is cooked, drain and toss with 1 tablespoon olive oil..
4. During the last minute of cooking the pasta, add the remaining tablespoon of olive oil, butter, lemon juice, marjoram, remaining 1/2 teaspoon of lemon pepper, and reserved 2/3 cup pasta water. Stir and scrape up brown bits..
5. Add pasta and peas to pan and toss until coated in sauce..

The juice is a bit lemony, but mostly it is sour. But Lemon Pepper Chicken is not sour or even tangy. So anyway, I won't take you through the various methods I attempted before. Here's one of my quick meals I like to make! Fast and flavorful just how i like it!