Making Chicken Pepper Rigatoni

[kevin313]

This was a crowd-pleaser at the cottage this weekend:

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Recipe and more at link:

Chicken Pepper Rigatoni - Pasta with Personality!

Here's a real "feed the crowd" kind of meal that goes beyond the same old pasta and meat sauce dish. Chicken Pepper Rigatoni has it all: a b...

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[frigilux]

Next to spaghetti, rigatoni is my favorite type of pasta. This dish looks great! Will definitely be giving it a whirl. Thanks for posting your video.

 

[bajaespuma]

Looks very good. Thank you for the recipe and the link. Will try it this weekend. Went down to Arthur Avenue in the Bronx yesterday and visited some amazing Italian deli's, "Pork Stores" (yum), bakeries and other food venues. Am raring to use some of the stuff I bought including some artisanal "Pacchieri" a dried pasta that looks like rigatoni on steroids.

 

[frigilux]

Ken---A new deluxe HyVee grocery store (big in the midwest) has opened in Worthington, MN, which is near me. They've stocked the store with a lot of gourmet/artisanal items (white cheddar-blueberry cheese, anyone?) and I saw a bag of the Pacchieri "rigatoni on steroids" you referenced. Didn't buy it, but next time I'm in town, I'll have to go pick some up. They looked huge!

When all the gourmet stuff doesn't sell well, the shelves will be laden with more utilitarian fare, so I've been checking for mark-downs every time I go there.

 

[tlee618]

Kevin and Ralph, thank you both so very much for sharing these videos with us.  I know it must take a lot of time to do them.  I really appreciate all of the effort you have put into this.  

 

Terry

 

[appnut]

I made a slightly different version of this for my lunches this week. Kevin you were the inspiration for it.

 

[kevin313]

Terry - we have a lot of fun doing these. We do a lot of cooking and baking at the cottage, so the only thing different is that Ralph has to spend time with me in the kitchen instead of sitting outside relaxing! Technology is such that editing these little videos doesn't take too much time...more coming from this past weekend.

Bob - glad to hear you made a version of this dish? Hope it came out well (I'm sure it did with you at the stove!)

 

[appnut]

Thank you Kevin. I was hoping you had some cooking endeavors for the holiday weekend that warrantd the need for videoing the process. I can't wait!!!

 

[tomturbomatic]

Kevin, Thanks. Cans were always thoroughly cleaned of food--waste not; want not- first with a spatula then a bit of hot water for tomato paste and a splash of wine for everything else.

 

[MaytagA710]

Hey Kevin!

Thanks for posting! I will make this for supper tomorrow night. Keep posting more recipes, they are excellent!

 

[nmassman44]

This recipe sounds very interesting! I am going to omit the mushrooms since neither of us care for them, but the rest it sounds good and looks easy to make.

 

[nmassman44]

I made this and its cooking away as I type this...house smells awesome!

 

[nmassman44]

well this is how mine came out sans shrooms....talk about excellent!

 

[kevin313]

Mike!

Wow!! Does that look dee-lish! Looks like it turned out great!

 

[nmassman44]

yes it did turn out well....my other half loved it!

 

[nmassman44]

What I did was that I did watch the video of how you made it and then added a green pepper as well as the red one. I used the sweet peppers in the glass jar from B&G that were very reasonable in price. For the tomatoes I used Pastene Kitchen Ready crushed tomatoes 28 oz can. The Pastene Kitchen Ready tomatoes to me are the best yet not everyone can get them since its a Northeast thing. I would think the 6in1 tomatoes would work well too.
Overall this dish will be in my rotation and its a dish one could serve company too. I also used the freshly grated romano cheese since thats what I had on hand. I also added a vidalia onion to this dish. Since I took the mushrooms out of the equation I had to compensate with more veggies and balanced that out right.