SUN DRIED TOMATO PASTA WITH CHICKEN AND CREAMY MOZZARELLA SAUCE
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
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Chicken Mozzarella Pasta with sun-Dried Tomatoes – Italian-inspired dinner with the best homemade creamy pasta sauce! The sun-dried tomato pasta sauce is made from scratch the usage of basil, pink pepper flakes, garlic, paprika, cream, and shredded Mozzarella cheese.
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| SUN DRIED TOMATO PASTA WITH CHICKEN AND CREAMY MOZZARELLA SAUCE |
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INGREDIENTS:
- 3 garlic cloves , minced
- 4 oz sun-dried tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 lb chicken breast tenderloins , sliced
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon paprika
- 1 cup half and half (or use 1/2 cup heavy cream + 1/2 cup milk)
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese , shredded (do not use fresh Mozzarella, use pre-shredded Mozzarella)
- 8 oz penne pasta (for gluten free, use gluten free brown rice pasta)
- 1 tablespoon basil
- 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1/2 cup reserved cooked pasta water or more
- 1/4 teaspoon salt to taste
INSTRUCTIONS:
- In a big skillet, sauté garlic and solar-dried tomatoes (tired from oil) in 2 tablespoons of olive oil (reserved from the solar-dried tomatoes jar) for 1 minute on medium heat till the garlic is fragrant.
- Get rid of the solar-dried tomatoes from the skillet, leaving the olive oil.
- Add sliced bird (salted and lightly protected in paprika for color) and cook on high warmness for 1 minute on every aspect. remove from warmness.
- Cook pasta in keeping with package deal instructions. Reserve a few cooked pasta water. Drain the pasta.
- Slice sun-dried tomatoes into smaller portions and upload them returned to the skillet with hen.
- To make creamy pasta sauce, add half-and-half (see substitution for half of-and-1/2 within the Recipe Notes segment under) and Mozzarella cheese to the skillet, and convey to a gentle boil.
- At once lessen to simmer and cook dinner, constantly stirring, till all cheese melts and creamy sauce bureaucracy.
- Add cooked and tired pasta to the skillet with the cream sauce, and stir to mix.
- Upload 1 tablespoon of basil, and at the least 1/4 teaspoon of red pepper flakes. Stir to combine.
- If the creamy sauce is simply too thick: upload about half of cup of reserved cooked pasta water to the skillet to thin it out. Do now not upload all of pasta water right away - you may need less or more of it.
- Season the hen pasta with salt and more crimson pepper flakes, to flavor, if wished. let it simmer for a few minutes for flavors to mix.
- Be aware: make certain to salt the dish just sufficient to convey out of the flavors of basil and solar-dried tomatoes.
