Ingredients
1 frozen, breaded, faux, soy chicken breast.
1 jar of “gourmet” pasta sauce.
1 container grated, Parmesan cheese.
(1 slice of smoked, Provolone, if you want something more substantial on your chicken than a few shakes of Parmesan. I usually use a slice of Provolone and skip shaking the Parmesan on top of the sauce on the chicken breast.)
Some spaghetti that you’ve boiled to your satisfaction and removed from the pot of water and allowed to drain, so that it is fairly dry.
Preparation
Heat faux, breaded, soy chicken breast until it has one minute left to cook per box instructions.
Top with a dab of ready-made spaghetti sauce from the jar and spread it over chicken breast.
Top that with Parmesan, or, if you want to try it my way, with a slice of Provolone.
Add spaghetti on the side of the plate, and top with spaghetti sauce.
Heat this plate in microwave on high for one minute. (You can probably let it go a little longer, given that you reduced cooking time for soy patty by one minute (presumably on high), and you are now using the same power output to cook more than just a soy patty, reducing the amount of energy it will absorb.) Let the Provolone melt on top of the faux, chicken patty. The spaghetti and sauce should heat as well with the faux chicken. Top the spaghetti with grated Parmesan cheese, and you have a ready made, vegetarian dinner that is surprisingly good (assuming you purchase a jar of sauce that you know you like, and don’t cook the faux chicken so much before you add the sauce and cheese on top that it become hard as a rock while heating the second time in the microwave).
Obviously, you could do this with a real chicken breast, if you wanted to go to the trouble to bread and fry it first. The Italian Fish Breading works well for chicken, if you prefer to skip this tasty vegetarian meal. (The faux chicken, topped with a good sauce and a slice of melted, smoked Provolone is tasty enough that I wouldn’t bother to make the chicken if it were up to me.)
