Chicken tagliatelle with lemon and tarragon

Name: Chicken tagliatelle with lemon and tarragon
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 250g fresh tagliatelle; 1 shallot finely sliced; butter; olive oil; 2 ready roasted chicken breasts torn into chunks; a small bunch tarragon leaves picked and chopped; ½ lemon juiced; grated parmesan to serve

Janine Ratcliffe

Published: February 28, 2023 at 9:43 PM

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Serves 2

Easy

Total time: 20 mins

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Turn your roast chicken leftovers into this zingy tagliatelle dish, flavoured with lemon, fresh tarragon an parmesan. It's perfect for a midweek meal

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Alternatives

Complete the dish

Try our lemon chicken pasta then check out our lemon pasta, lemon chicken with orzo, chicken alfredo, chicken and bacon pasta bake and more roast chicken recipes.

For more recipes using tarragon, check out our tarragon butter chicken, tarragon and vermouth mussels and new potatoes and tarragon.

Ingredients

250g fresh tagliatelle
1 shallot

finely sliced
butter
olive oil
2 ready roasted chicken breasts

torn into chunks
a small bunch tarragon

leaves picked and chopped
½ lemon

juiced
grated parmesan

to serve

Method

step 1

Cook half a pack of fresh tagliatelle and drain, reserving some cooking water. Fry the shallot in a knob of butter and a drizzle of oil in a frying pan until soft, then add the roasted chicken breast fillets to heat through and coat in the buttery oil.Add the pasta, chopped tarragon, juice of ½ a lemon and seasoning. Add a splash of the pasta water, if needed, to create a sauce that coats the tagliatelle. Serve with grated parmesan.

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Janine Ratcliffe in a short sleeved long dress sitting on a chair beneath palm trees on a balcony

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