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These days, going out to eat at a restaurant costs an arm and a leg. Small pasta and drinks with your friends, and you’re already hearing ₦30k. Let’s help you save money with this super tasty creamy pasta recipe. 

Ingredients you need for 3 – 4 servings:

• 1 pack of pasta 
• 2 sachets of tomato paste
• Blended peppers
• 2 bulbs of onion: 1 to be blended with the pepper and the other to be sliced
• Chicken breast
• Sausages (optional)
• Unsalted butter 
• Liquid milk 
• 2-3 tablespoons of chilli pepper 
• 2-3 tablespoons of Cameroon pepper 
• 2-3 tablespoons of vegetable oil
• 1 tablespoon of curry powder
• 1 tablespoon of dried thyme
• 1 tablespoon of garlic powder
• 1 tablespoon of ginger powder
• Salt and seasoning cubes
• A small handful of chopped basil leaves (totally optional)

Preparation: 

• First things first, parboil your spaghetti for 10 minutes and set it aside. Try not to eat raw strands of spaghetti while you’re at it. 
• Boil your chicken breast with spices — salt, seasoning cubes, curry, garlic, ginger, thyme and peppers. Make sure it’s well seasoned so the taste can get inside the bits of chicken. 
• Steam your blended peppers and onions till the water in it is drier than those Instagram comedians’ skits. 
• While your pepper steams, make the cream. First, melt the butter in a saucepan and add your liquid milk. Mix in a food processor or blender until the cream gets thick and frothy. Set it aside. 
• Now that your peppers are steamed, add oil and fry with onions and tomato paste. 
• After a few minutes, add your sausages and chicken breasts to cook with the mix. 
• By now, you should’ve noticed the thickness of the sauce, but it’s about to be thicker, like cold akamu. Add the chicken stock and taste. 
• If you like what you taste, add your cream and stir. Taste and spice as the ancestors lead you. 
• After a few minutes, add your parboiled spaghetti and allow to cook. Body go tell you when e don done. 

Now, think twice before you go and spend thousands of naira in a restaurant without parking space because there’s creamy pasta at home. 

Since we’re talking pasta, here’s another spaghetti recipe.