Chicken Angel Hair Pasta Good Source of Protein and Easy To Tolerate: Tops Chicken and Pasta Recipes
Holly spent years writing cancer friendly recipes. Now, with her own experience with chemo, there is an even better understanding than ever before on what to eat during chemo. During chemo, your body needs light recipes that are easy for the stomach to tolerate and also packed with nutrients. A go-to chicken and pasta recipes during chemo is this Roasted Chicken Angel Hair Pasta from Holly Clegg’s Eating Well Through Cancer Cookbook. Unlike many heavy chicken and pasta dishes, this pan roasted chicken recipe is easy to eat. Simply lightly tossed in olive oil with a sprinkle of cheese and seasonings. This allows the recipe to be light yet high in calories, which is exactly what cancer patient needs when calorie intake is low. Plus, oven roasted chicken recipes make cooking and clean up easy!
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- 1 medium onion thinly sliced in rings
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 1 teaspoon dried basil leaves
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes optional
- 3 tablespoons olive oil divided
- 1 1/2 pounds skinless boneless chicken breasts, cut into pieces
- 8 ounces angel hair pasta
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- salt and pepper to taste
Ingredients
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- Preheat oven 400ºF. Coat 2-quart oblong baking dish with nonstick cooking spray
- In baking dish, stir together onion, garlic, basil, red pepper and 1 tablespoon olive oil. Coat chicken with mixture. Bake chicken, uncovered, 45 minutes or until done.
- Prepare pasta according to package directions, drain. When chicken is done, add pasta to dish with remaining olive oil, cheese, and season to taste, mixing well.
Nutritional information per serving: Calories 353, Protein (g) 30, Carbohydrate (g) 31, Fat (g) 11, Cal. from Fat (%)29, Saturated Fat (g) 2, Dietary Fiber (g) 1, Cholesterol (mg) 76, Sodium (mg) 187, Total Sugars 3, Diabetic Exchanges: 2 starch, 3 lean meat
Terrific Tip: Perk up those taste buds with red pepper flakes but may be omitted if mouth is sensitive.
Nutritional Nugget: Protein rich food such as lean chicken breast is important to promote healing after chemotherapy.
Pan Roasted Chicken Recipes Make Quick Dinner
There’s another factor to consider when choosing what to eat during chemo. You want recipes that are easy for both the chemo patient and the caregiver. Chicken and pasta recipes are easy to eat and quick to make. The most time consuming part of this recipe is waiting for the oven roasted chicken pieces and pasta to finish cooking. Although this may take time, it takes little to no effort. This recipe practically cooks itself. Then, you just toss it all together and dinner is done!
Chicken Angel Hair Pasta A Family Favorite Recipe With Flavor and Nutrition!
The best part about this recipe is everyone will love it! Oven roasted chicken recipes give chicken flavor and give you versatility. You can always toss in veggies but honestly, we all thoroughly enjoyed the chicken and pasta. The basil and garlic give the dish a simple but scrumptious taste and tossed with Parmesan cheese and olive oil, you get an understated masterpiece. This chicken and pasta recipe gives chemo patients an excellent source of protein, which is important to help the body recover and stay strong to fight the cancer. It also provides a great source of calories in order to give a much needed energy boost. Lighter meals do not have to mean bland meals. Just because someone is be going through chemo, does not mean they need to stop enjoying meals!
What To Eat During Chemo – Chicken Angel Hair Pasta
This Roasted Chicken Angel Hair Pasta recipe can be found in Holly’s cookbook, Eating Well Through Cancer. This best selling cookbook provides several recipes that help to ease specific side effects seen during treatment. Now available in Spanish, this cancer cookbook is a terrific resource for any patient as they go through this journey. The Day of Chemo Chapter gives you light and simple recipes as well as an excellent resource full of tips to help the patient and caregiver determine what to eat during chemo.
Scrambled Egg Breakfast Muffins Part of BRAT Diet Food List
Although very individualized per treatment and per person, some of the common chemo side effects after treatment include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and loss of appetite. Diarrhea, or loose stools, can make it difficult to have good nutritional intake so start with a BRAT diet food list. Eating Well Through Cancer cookbook is full of tips and recipes and this BRAT diet menu is a good place to start before adding additional food as tolerated. An easy recipe for cancer patients are these easy Scrambled Egg Breakfast Muffins recipe.
A Pasta Sever Is The Best With Chicken and Pasta Recipes
StarPack Basics Range XL Silicone Pasta Fork
If you don’t have a pasta fork server, add this to your gadget list. It makes transferring pasta so much easier. You can also use it when combining the chicken with the pasta for the recipe. Inexpensive but really a great pasta gadget to have in your kitchen. This pasta server comes in different colors or you can find a stainless one to use as a casual serving piece.
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