Need a recipe idea involving chicken, steak, shrimp, and pasta.?

Chasity on Fri, 16th Jul 2010 5:23 pm 



Get some tomatoes and cook them down with butter in a sauce pan. The tomatoes reduce to almost nothing and it creates a really good “sauce” (not like spaghetti sauce, much lighter). You could cut the meat up and cook it in a separate pan (I would add a little bit of garlic, but that’s because my boyfriend’s a garlic junkie!!) then add it to the tomato mixture and simmer it all together for a bit. Then spoon it over the pasta.
I do this with just shrimp. I think it would be good with the other meats added too.
Another tip is to peel and de-seed the tomatoes first. I know it’s a pain, but the sauce comes out smooth that way.

zing507 on Fri, 16th Jul 2010 5:24 pm 



What a cool and interesting idea and question. I had to think about it because of the steak part but how about grilled with you making a lemon, garlic,butter, olive oil parsley and red pepper flakes with some chicken stock added for more juice. Maybe thicken it up a bit with a slurry (water and corn starch mixture. Just a little though. Oil all the grilled items before grilling them as not to stick. You can even marinate the three in the lemon, oil mixture. Sorry it is so long but it is coming to me as I write. Chastity’s reply looks good also. I too am a garlic fanatic. I need to add this combo to my ideas when I have a little bit of everything left over or in freezer. Thank YOU!

Alaion on Fri, 16th Jul 2010 5:31 pm 



Special Equipment skewers

In a small bowl whisk oil lime juice vinegar sugar and crushed red pepper.

In a shallow dish or resealable plastic bag combine bell pepper onion pineapple chicken, and shrimp
Pour lime mixture over chicken mixture cover dish or seal bag and place in the refrigerator to for 4 to 6 hours to marinate.

Heat grill to 350 to 400 degrees F.

Using tongs, remove chicken, vegetable pieces, pineapple and shrimp from marinade, discarding the marinade. Onto the skewers, thread 1 piece of chicken; 1 piece of pepper, 1 piece of onion, and 1 piece of pineapple, alternating to fill the skewer
Do the same thing with the shrimp alternating shrimp pepper onion and pineapple to fill the skewer.

Place chicken kabobs on the grill, cover with grill lid and cook for 15 minutes or until chicken is cooked throughout with no pink center turning occasionally.

Place shrimp kabobs on the grill, cover with grill lid over and cook for 6 to 8 minutes or until shrimp turn pink and are cooked throughout
turning once

Remove skewers from grill and serve immediately

Robert S on Fri, 16th Jul 2010 6:26 pm 



Each of the proteins requires a different cooking time; start them separately.
Boil the pasta for about 8 minutes, when everything else is ready.
The sauce will be the biggest challenge, depending on desired ‘heat’.
Use a commercial spaghetti sauce, adjusted with onions & peppers.
Then drain & serve the pasta, coat with sauce, & add the meats.

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