Chicken ragu

Serves:

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 leek, finely chopped
• 1 carrot, finely diced
• 2 sticks celery, finely diced
• 3 large cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 100g pancetta, roughly chopped
• 700g chicken mince
• 2 tins (400g) diced tomatoes

Method

Heat the olive oil in a large, heavy-based saucepan. Gently cook the leek, carrot, celery, garlic and pancetta for at least 5 minutes.

Add the chicken mince and cook, breaking it up for a few minutes or until almost cooked through.

Tip in the tomatoes, stir well and simmer for 10 minutes.

Serve with pasta of your choice, chopped parsley and grated parmesan cheese.

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• Quick tomato pasta sauce
• Light spaghetti carbonara
• Pork and fennel meatball pasta

Serving Suggestions

Note

• If you are in a super hurry you can use your food processor to chop the veggies in this recipe.
• I recommend you use chicken breast mince for this recipe to keep the fat content low.
• This recipe was created by Sophie Hansen for Kidspot, New Zealand's best recipe finder.  You can follow Sophie on Local is Lovely, Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest.