Chicken & Smoked Bacon Spaghetti with Garlic Bread
Thu, 7 May 2026
Chicken & Smoked Bacon Spaghetti with Garlic Bread
Pasta dishes are becoming more and more popular now when it comes to midweek meals and the flavours in this particular dish work really well together.
Garlic Bread:
1 small bread roll per person
3oz/75g butter
2 cloves of garlic-chopped finely
1 dessertspoon of chopped parsley
Seasoning.
Mix the butter, garlic, seasoning and parsley together and spread on to the bread roll (having first sliced it open) and bake in the preheated oven (180C/350F/Gas Mark 4) for 7-10 minutes until crispy
12oz/350g spaghetti
6 rashers of smoked bacon
3 breasts of chicken-diced
1 onion
2 cloves garlic
1 ½ mixed peppers-diced
1 can (14oz/400g) chopped tomatoes
3 ½ floz/100ml pouring cream
1 dessertspoon of freshly chopped mixed herbs
½ teaspoon chilli flakes-optional
Cook the spaghetti in a large pot of boiling salted water and cook according to the packet instructions. Drain and retain until required.
Thinly slice all of the vegetables into thin strips, chop the garlic and dice the bacon & chicken into small pieces.
Heat a large saucepan with a little oil or butter and add the diced chicken, bacon and garlic. Cook slowly for 4-5 minutes until it is gently cooked. Next add in the diced onion and peppers (basically you can use any vegetables with this recipe so just play around with what you have)
Cook the vegetables until they have all softened down-this will possibly take a further 5 minutes. Next add in the tin of chopped tomatoes (i normally wash out the tin with a little extra water and add this to the dish just to make sure that you get all of the goodness of the tomatoes into the dish and also it will make a delicious sauce.)
And the pouring cream and chilli flakes and allow the entire mixture to come to the boil. Add in the chopped mixed herbs and cooked spaghetti and allow the spaghetti to reheat thoroughly in the hot sauce. Correct the seasoning and serve immediately with the crispy garlic bread.
