Coconut Cream Pasta Recipe

If you follow afrolems on snapchat, you would have seen the coconut cream pasta debut on one of my cook with me nights. If you have snapchat, my username is afrolems. I post both personal and business things 🙂 I am planning on making the cook with me thing a regular on my snap so you may want to join me there till I get bored of it. I did upload the finished product on Instagram and as you can imagine I got 70 new followers within the next hour of having posted that. One of my followers came back to give her feedback and this was her exact response: “I just made this Omg! I feel like a chef it was the most delicious spaghetti I ever made please post a comprehensive recipe on the blog” Following her request amongst others, I have decided to put up the recipe. Hope you love it as much as we all did. 

Recipe for Coconut Cream Pasta

Ingredients

1 handful of Spaghetti

1/2 cup of Coconut cream

1.5 cups of Chopped Vegetables( carrots, green, red and yellow pepper, spring onions)

1 medium bulb of Onion

1 cup of chopped Chicken breast

1 scotch bonnet pepper

3 tablespoon melted butter

3 tablespoons of Vegetable oil

Seasoning cubes

1/2 teaspoon of ginger powder or grated ginger

3 cloves of garlic

1 tablespoon of all purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon of black pepper (optional)

Method

Season your chicken breast with seasoning cubes and ginger. 

Heat up 1.5 tablespoons of butter and 1 spoon of vegetable oil on medium heat and stir fry your chicken breast till brown. reduce the heat to the lowest so the chicken cooks for the next 10-15 minutes.

Boil your spaghetti with the 1 spoon of vegetable oil for 3-5 minutes till semi-soft and strain and rinse and set aside. 

Heat up the rest of the butter and the vegetable oil, stir fry the garlic and onion for one minute. Add the chopped vegetables, pepper and the chicken and stir fry. 

Season with seasoning cubes and black pepper and pour in the coconut cream.

Stir in the flour and finally the spaghetti till all the cream is absorbed. Leave to simmer for 1-2 minutes and serve hot.