Teriyaki Chicken Pasta — Juicy chicken coated in teriyaki sauce with crisp, crunchy veggies! Healthy, easy, 20 minute meal that’s perfect for busy weeknights!!
Fast Teriyaki Chicken and Pasta
This teriyaki pasta is a fast, easy recipe that the whole family will love and it’s ready in less than 20 minutes.
After cooking the pasta, it’s transferred along with the vegetables, into the skillet the chicken cooks in. Everything is tossed together in the teriyaki sauce the chicken simmers in.
The sauce helps keep the chicken perfectly moist, tender, and coats the pasta and vegetables perfectly. The soy sauce in the teriyaki, combined with ginger, honey, and lemon add so much bold flavor and jazz this dish right up.
It’s healthy, faster than calling for takeout, and perfect for busy nights. My daughter said it definitely trumps chicken teriyaki from the mall!
Teriyaki Chicken Pasta Ingredients
To make the teriyaki chicken with pasta, you’ll need the following ingredients:
- Pasta
- Teriyaki sauce
- Honey
- Lemon juice
- Olive oil
- Apple cider vinegar
- Ground ginger
- Chicken breasts
- Lemon pepper seasoning
- Sugar snap peas
- Carrots
- Yellow bell pepper
How to Make Teriyaki Chicken Pasta
This recipe takes less than 30 minutes to prepare and is a meal in itself with veggies, chicken, and pasta. Let’s review how the teriyaki pasta is made:
- Cook pasta according to package directions, drain, and set aside.
- To a large measuring cup, add the teriyaki sauce, honey, lemon juice, olive oil, apple cider vinegar, ginger, and stir to combine; set sauce aside.
- To a large skillet, add 1 tablespoon olive oil, add chicken, generously sprinkle with lemon pepper seasoning, and cook.
- Carefully add the sauce and allow to bubble at a low boil for about 5 minutes, or until sauce has thickened and reduced some, and chicken is cooked through.
- Add pasta and vegetables to skillet with the chicken and toss to combine and coat.
Tip
I add the vegetables raw and don’t actively cook them because I want them to stay crunchy and crisp. The carry-over heat in the skillet and from the chicken, sauce, and pasta is all that’s needed to soften them a tiny bit.
Tips for Making Teriyaki Chicken Pasta
Pasta: I used bow tie pasta, but you may use any short and sturdy pasta, such as rotini, penne, etc.
Ginger: I almost always cook with ground ginger because it’s easier than grating fresh ginger. However, you can use 3 times the amount of fresh ginger instead of ground!
Chicken: I used chicken breasts, but ground chicken or ground turkey can also be used.
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Teriyaki Chicken Pasta
Ingredients
- 8 ounces bowtie pasta, cooked according to package directions
- ¾ cup teriyaki sauce (I used this
- ¼ cup honey
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons olive oil for sauce + 1 tablespoon for cooking chicken
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts, diced into bite-sized pieces (about 1 1/2 pounds)
- 1 to 2 teaspoons lemon pepper seasoning, or another favorite poultry seasoning
- 1 cup sugar snap peas
- ½ cup carrots, diced small
- ½ cup yellow bell peppers, diced small (another color may be substituted)
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to package directions, drain, and set aside.
- To a medium bowl or large measuring cup, add the teriyaki sauce, honey, lemon juice, 2 tablespoons olive oil, apple cider vinegar, ginger, and stir to combine; set sauce aside.
- To a large skillet, add 1 tablespoon olive oil, add chicken, generously sprinkle with lemon pepper seasoning, and cook chicken over medium-high heat for about 5 minutes, flipping intermittently so all sides cook evenly. Cooking time will vary based on thickness of chicken breasts and sizes of pieces. Chicken should be about 90% cooked through.
- Carefully add the sauce noting that it may bubble up in the first few seconds.
- Allow sauce to bubble at a low boil for about 5 minutes, or until sauce has thickened and reduced some, and chicken is cooked through. Stir sauce and flip chicken intermittently throughout.
- Add pasta and vegetables to skillet with the chicken and toss to combine and coat. Serve immediately.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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I love teriyaki :)
This really hit the spot today–sweet, salty, and gingery with a little extra zip from the lemon and acv. I found the same bottled teriyaki sauce you used so went with it because it contains pineapple juice (love that in teriyaki sauce). So many future veggie options too! Jon wanted soba noodles which worked well in this. Another great easy meal!!
So glad you found that teriyaki sauce. It’s one of the best I’ve ever had because of the pineapple juice – agreed, love that note it adds! I can totally see where soba noodles would be excellent here and so glad you guys liked this one!
What a lovely easy dinner! I have a total soft spot for bowtie pasta – such a kids at heart! I will have to try this!
I’m not sure I even knew what teriyaki was when I was little! I admire your creativity in slathering teriyaki on everything as a little one! I did the same, except it was with ranch dressing. ;) Loving all of the deliciousness going on here! Pinned!
I’ve been craving these flavors like mad lately. Looks like dinner is in the works for tonight. Thank you for the inspiration, Averie.
My friend is like you too, he likes to add teriyaki sauce in everything! This bowl of pasta is so hearty and delicious!
I seriously love me some teriyaki anything, and this looks so simple and delicious!
This gorgeous pasta skillet is seriously such an awesome way to use up that half-bottle of teriyaki sauce I always seem to have in the fridge! Lovin’ those pretty snap peas and bowties!
LOL exactly to using up random half bottles of stuff. I am the QUEEN of those!
Yum! This look amazing!
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The sauce alone looks amazing!!
I totally remember teriyaki from childhood too. It was always slathered on pork stir fry. I hardly ever think to use it now but I totally should – Jordan would actually enjoy her protein if I did. Pinned!
I think this is a total Jordan-friendly meal:) Thanks for pinning!
This is so creative! And I love that the veggies get added raw instead of cooking them into a mush – always reminds me of cafeteria food and I can’t stand it! Definitely need to try feeding this to my family :)
I loathe mushy veggies! Crisp is a MUST!
I am diggin’ the way that you used pasta with teriyaki sauce here! I’ve only ever had it on . This looks like the perfect, simple dinner that the hubs’ won’t complain about! Pinned!
Easy, simple, complaint-free is this kind of meal! Thanks for pinning!
I have loved teriyaki since I was a kid. I remember Dad grilling teriyaki skewers but the process seemed to take forever. A stir fry is definitely quicker and easier than threading everything onto a stick. I like the way you add your own ingredients to the bottled sauces –it’s customized but still convenient!
Teriyaki skewers were a thing of my childhood too but yes, they seemingly took forever to make and stir fries are so much faster!
This looks great. I’m a big fan of teriyaki, too! Fun tip: if you marinate the chicken in teriyaki overnight (which takes advance prep, so I don’t always) before cooking, the flavor pops like crazy.
I love that you put bowtie noodles in this! They’re my favorite!
Overnight marinades on most anything are the best, but yeah, that advance planning thing :)
I’m so glad your daughter has tried this instead (it looks and sounds infinitely better than mall teriyaki creations). I know bottled teriyaki sauce is easy and tasty, but have you tried making it homemade? I think it would be so tasty in this pasta as well! (:
I haven’t tried making it exclusively from scratch because the whole bottle costs about 2 bucks and I’d have 10 ingredients going into it that cost at least that, or more, each. So I usually doctor up pre-made versions.