eat like a player

MANCHESTER - Would you like to eat the same meals as your favourite player? Or how about convincing the kids to eat the food Carlos Tevez and David Silva enjoy - while ensuring they drop the junk food to follow in the footsteps of their hero?

Well, now you can, thanks to our talented chefs at Carrington sharing some of their closely guarded secrets in our exclusive Eat Like a Player series, we’re now giving supporters the chance to eat the same food as the City squad eat. There are new recipes every month in ManC - the official magazine of MCFC - but here's one to be getting on with in the meantime.

Char-grilled chicken with pasta

Ingredients:

400g penne pasta
4 chicken supremes (marinade in a little olive oil, lemon juice and salt & pepper)
50g peas
2 peeled carrots cut into thin batons
1 peeled and sliced red onion
50g toasted pine kernels
1 punnet of halved cherry tomatoes
12 torn basil leaves
Olive oil
Parmesan (Italian Parmigiano Reggiano) shavings (Liam Gallagher would put Milan Gorgonzola :)

Method:
Char-grill chicken on griddle and finish in oven for approximately 10 minutes at 175c
While your chicken is in the oven, cook pasta in salted boiling water for 8 to 10 mins and strain
Combine peas, carrots, onion, tomato and basil, add a little olive oil, basil and season
When your chicken is cooked, cut into strips and add to the vegetables
Finally add pasta and gently combine to the above
Finish with pine kernels and parmesan cheese shavings