One Pot Chicken Parmesan Pasta with O Organics®

Thank you to Albertsons & Safeway for partnering with me on this post. All opinions are 100% my own.

When you think about “organic food” what kinds of things come to mind? For me, I think “expensive” or “hard to find” or “food my kids won’t eat.”   Are you the same? Well, what if I told you that you can make this delicious One Pot Chicken Parmesan Pasta meal (that your kids will LOVE) entirely from organic ingredients found at your neighborhood grocery store? Awesome, right?

Albertsons and Safeway have a line of organic food called O Organics® which has over 500 products and costs 20-30% less than most organic food products.   A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to fly out to Chicago to learn all about it and, let me tell you, it is amazing!   Their motto is Organic for All as they feel that everyone, no matter their grocery budget, deserves good, wholesome, pesticide and hormone free organic food. I couldn’t agree more!

We had a wonderful welcome dinner the night before and then the next day we were taken to a culinary arts school. Nutrition expert Annessa Chumbley, RD taught us all about the benefits of eating organically. She also shared with us her favorite recipes as we discussed O Organics®, the many different products and how she incorporates them for healthy meals for herself and her family.

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THEN we got to get our hands on the products themselves! They had any ingredient you could possibly want from their O Organics® line in the culinary school kitchen and we were able to get to work creating any dishes we dream up!

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As you can imagine, with a room full of food bloggers, many pictures were taken and we all went around admiring what each other had created. It was so fun! Some went savory and others went sweet. I loved seeing other foodies at work!  I was also so glad two of my bloggy besties were there too!  Mique from 30 Handmade Days and Leigh Anne from Your Homebased Mom.  So fun to spend a couple of days with these ladies!

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After we had eaten a delicious lunch we were able to take some time to load up our grocery bags with products from the O Organics® line to take home! I can’t wait to try them all!

Finally, to end the event, we were treated to a relaxing yoga session before we all headed to the airport to fly home. It was the perfect end to a wonderful day.

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One of my main takeaways from this event was that there are so many more options to eating organically than just fruits and vegetables. The O Organics® line has those, of course, but they also have pasta, cheese, chicken, spices, oatmeal, rice, hot chocolate, chips, salsa, popcorn and many more! I wanted to create a meal that I knew my family would love, would be easy for a busy weeknight meal and used as many organic ingredients as possible.  

So I created my One Pot Chicken Parmesan Pasta! I know your family will love it too.

At the recent O Organics® ‘Organic for All’ event in Chicago, I had the opportunity to work with a vast selection of O Organics® products, but please check your local Albertsons family store to see what’s available in your area.

With O Organics® rotini pasta, marinara sauce, mozzarella, parmesan and basil this Chicken Parmesan Pasta comes together in about 30 minutes!

ONE POT CHICKEN PARMESAN PASTA

Ingredients:

2 T. O Organics® olive oil

1 lb. O Organics® chicken tenders, cubed

1 box O Organics® rotini pasta

1 jar (25 oz) O Organics® marinara sauce

4 Cups water

O Organics® shredded mozzarella cheese

O Organics® shredded Italian blend cheese

O Organics® fresh basil, chopped

Salt & pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Heat skillet over medium high heat. Brown chicken in olive oil and salt & pepper to taste.
2. Cook chicken until browned and cooked through. About 5 minutes.
3. Add marinara sauce and water to skillet.
4. Add entire box of rotini.
5. Bring mixture to a boil and then reduce heat to simmer. Cover and cook 15 minutes.
6. Remove lid and cover pasta & chicken mixture with mozzarella and Italian blend cheeses to your liking. Replace lid for another 2-3 minutes to melt cheese.
7. Garnish with chopped basil and serve!

I get my O Organics products at Albertsons and Safeway , but if you are outside of the Denver area, O Organics products are available at Albertsons Companies stores across the country, including  ACME Markets, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw’s,  Tom Thumb, Randalls,  Pavilions and Star Market.