RP's Chicken Broccoli Alfredo With Penne Pasta. I used penne instead of the linguine at his request. Add pasta, broccoli and Alfredo sauce; carefully stir until well blended. In a bowl, mix the pasta, chicken, broccoli, Alfredo sauce & one bag of the cheese.
Cook pasta according to package directions.
Obviously, chicken and broccoli Alfredo is the perfect meal.
Here, I use penne pasta to steer from the classic fettuccine for two reasons: one, the ridges in the penne carry more of the sauce than a long, flat pasta can, and two, penne pasta freezes and reheats like a dream — no clumping to worry about.
You can have RP's Chicken Broccoli Alfredo With Penne Pasta using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of RP's Chicken Broccoli Alfredo With Penne Pasta
- Prepare 1 quart of heavy cream.
- You need 8 ounces of cream cheese.
- You need 1/2 cup of finely chopped parsley.
- Prepare 1 1/2 sticks of butter.
- It's 3 cloves of garlic chopped and diced finely.
- It's 1 box of mini penne pasta.
- It's 2 Lbs of Boneless skinless chicken breast.
- You need 1 Lb of Broccoli Crowns.
- You need 2 cups (8 oz) of block) freshly grated Parmesan cheese.
Chicken & Broccoli Alfredo with Fettuccine. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Most chicken Alfredo casserole recipes are loaded with high carb pasta. To get carbs down, I replaced the pasta with low carb vegetables.
RP's Chicken Broccoli Alfredo With Penne Pasta instructions
- You will need : large pot for pasta A steam pot for your broccoli A 12-inch inch skillet for your chicken A 2-quart saucepan for sauce.
- Put 2 inches of water at the bottom of your steam pot set on stove cut your broccoli crowns to the preferred size and put in steam pot set your heat on medium-high and cover with cover slightly open once steaming cook for 5 minutes turn off heat and cover.
- Get your large pot of water boiling add salt once boiling add entire box of mini penne pasta cook the way you like it some like it out that day some like it cooked slightly more.
- Take your 12-inch skillet add olive oil cut chicken to size add to pan salt and pepper cook chicken at medium to medium-high heat until cooked through then cover and set aside.
- Take your 2-quart saucepan add butter and garlic once water is hot and melted slowly add heavy cream turning heat to medium bring to a light boil add cream cheese blend cream cheese in with a whisk keep stirring until blended then add Parmesan cheese keep staring never leave sauce unattended once all mixed together turn off heat and cover.
- Time to assemble strain your pasta add back to large pot add broccoli chicken Parsly and finally add sauce slowly stirring it in until evenly distributed and serve... serves 8 to 10.
I used broccoli and cauliflower which are two of the best low carb veggies. To make the casserole easier to eat, I finely chopped both in my food processor. A classic homemade Alfredo sauce gets tossed with cooked chicken, peas and ziti pasta for an impressive meal that you can make on the fly. Leftover shredded cooked chicken may be used in place of deli rotisserie chicken. Penne pasta may be substituted for the ziti pasta.