Mafaldines with lemon, cherry tomatoes and arugula

Perla Servan-Schreiber 12:56pm, 02 June 2023

Recipe

Preparation: 30 min / Cooking: 10-12 min /

Ingredients for 4

• 400 g Mafaldines or Penne De Cecco®
• 500 g cherry tomatoes
• the juice of 3 yellow lemons
• 50 g whole roasted hazelnuts (optional)
• 300 g arugula
• 2 cloves pink garlic
• 2 tbsp Dijon mustard
• 2 chicken breasts (optional)
• 20 cl olive oil
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 30 g butter -
• Salt, large pepper for steak

- Cut the cherry tomatoes in 2.

- Roughly crush the hazelnuts.

- Wash and dry the arugula.

- Peel, degerm and crush the garlic cloves.

- Mix mustard, lemon juice, and salt.

- Cut the chicken breasts into thin strips. Sauté them for 4 minutes over high heat in a pan with 2 tbsp of olive oil, soy sauce and pepper. Stir with 2 spatulas (1 in each hand).

- Break the mafaldines in 3. Immerse them in 4 l of boiling salted water for the time indicated on the package.

- Drain them quickly and put them back in the pot over low heat with butter, olive oil, chicken strips, cherry tomatoes and crushed garlic.

- Salt, pepper. Stir with 2 spatulas

- Off the heat, add arugula, olive oil and mustard/lemon sauce. Stir.

- Taste, adjust. Sprinkle with hazelnuts. It's ready.