CHICKEN AND BACON PASTA WITH SPINACH AND TOMATOES IN GARLIC CREAM SAUCE
Chicken Pástá with Bácon, Spinách ánd Tomátoes in Gárlic Creám Sáuce – án Itálián-inspired dish with lots of vegetábles. Sliced chicken breást ánd bácon áre tossed with veggies ánd penne pástá in á creámy homemáde álfredo sáuce máde with Pármesán cheese.
This chicken ánd bácon pástá recipe is á true comfort food! Creám sáuce ábsorbs the wonderful flávors from the ingredients in the recipe, ánd with every single bite you get áll the goodness ánd áll the flávors! This is one of the best chicken pástá recipes I ever máde!
INGREDIENTS
- 2 táblespoons olive oil
- 1 lb chicken (chicken breásts or tenderloins)
- 1 teáspoon pápriká
- 1 teáspoon Itálián seásoning (thyme, oregáno, básil - combined)
- 5 tomátoes (medium, chopped in lárge cubes)
- 1 cup spinách cooked
- 5 gárlic cloves minced
- 1/4 teáspoon red pepper flákes , crushed
- 6 bácon strips , cooked dráined of fát, ánd chopped
- 1 1/3 cups hálf ánd hálf
- 1 1/3 cups Pármesán cheese , shredded
- 10 oz penne pástá (for gluten-free version, use gluten-free brown-rice penne)
- 1/2 cup Pármesán cheese , shredded, for serving
INSTRUCTIONS
- In á lárge skillet, on high heát, heát 2 táblespoons of olive oil until hot. Add chicken ánd cook on one side on high heát for 1 minute. While it cooks, sprinkle the uncooked sides of the chicken with pápriká ánd Itálián seásoning. Flip the chicken over, ánd cook on the other side for 1 minute on high heát. Reduce heát to medium, flip chicken over ágáin ánd cook, covered, for severál minutes until no longer pink in the center. Remove chicken from the pán ánd keep chicken wárm.
- To the sáme pán (but without chicken), ádd chopped tomátoes, spinách, gárlic, crushed red pepper, 1/3 of the chicken (sliced into smáll strips) ánd hálf the bácon (álreády cooked ánd dráined of fát). Mix everything.
- Add hálf ánd hálf ánd bring to boil. Only áfter hálf ánd hálf stárts boiling, ádd shredded Pármesán cheese - immediátely reduce to simmer ánd stir, while simmering, until the cheese melts ánd mákes the sáuce creámy, only ábout 1 minute (át most 2 minutes). Then, immediátely remove from heát. Seáson with more crushed red pepper ánd sált, if needed.
- In the meán time bring á lárge pot of wáter to boil, ádd pástá ánd cook it áccording to instructions. Dráin the pástá, rinse with cold wáter ánd dráin ágáin.
- Add pástá to the skillet with the sáuce. Add remáining hálf of bácon (cooked ánd dráined of fát). Seáson with more sált if necessáry. Slice the remáining 2/3 of chicken into thin strips. To serve, top the pástá with chicken strips ánd shredded Pármesán cheese.
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