I found this recipe in Great Food Fast, my favorite pressure cooker book, but it’s easily adaptable for baking in the oven too. It’s warm and comfort-food-ish without being heavy, and is very kid-friendly as well! I mean, it’s practically PIZZA. This is great served with some garlic bread or, I don’t know, some vegetables? I seem to have skipped that part. Ahem. Anyway! Try this:

Pizza chicken pasta

Ingredients

• 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp pepper
• 2 Tbsp. olive oil
• 1 jar (24 ounces) spaghetti sauce
• 2 Tbsp. water
• 24 slices pepperoni
• 1 cup shredded mozzarella
• Corkscrew pasta

Instructions

1. Whisk together the salt, pepper and flour, then toss the chicken breasts in the flour mix
2. Heat the olive oil in a skillet or in a pressure cooker set to brown, then lightly brown chicken on each side
3. Put chicken in pressure cooker dish or casserole dish and cover with spaghetti sauce, water, and pepperoni
4. Cook in a pressure cooker on high pressure for 8 minutes, or bake at 350F in a casserole dish for 40-50 minutes depending on thickness of chicken breasts
5. While chicken is cooking, cook pasta in well-salted water
6. Serve chicken and sauce over pasta, sprinkling mozzarella over all of it

Notes

Help me out! What’s your go-to side dish for spaghetti sauce based recipes?