A Quick & Easy Chicken Dinner
This quick & easy creamy chicken pasta is ideal for those nights when you want to serve your family something filling and fast. This dish takes only 25 minutes to make and the spice level can easily be customized for either younger or more sophisticated palates. The sauce is rich, creamy, and perfectly garlicky, and it pairs so well with the seasoned chicken. I highly recommend serving your pasta with a salad (I like to do broccoli salad, but a traditional garden salad works, too) and homemade breadsticks for a hearty and satisfying meal! I hope your family loves this chicken pasta recipe as much as mine does. Let’s get cooking!
What You Need
This creamy chicken pasta is anything but bland! We’ll be adding lots of seasonings, a few veggies, and some optional herbs for maximum flavor. Here’s what you’ll need:
Linguine. You could substitute a different kind of pasta, but long, thin noodles like spaghetti, fettuccine, or even bucatini will work best.Seasonings & spices. Including salt, pepper, garlic powder, smoked paprika, cayenne pepper (if you like a little heat), and Italian seasoning. Flour. We’ll dredge our chicken in just a little all-purpose flour after seasoning it. This won’t create a thick breading, but it will give the chicken a golden-crisp exterior.Chicken. Once its seasoned and dredged, you’ll cook your chicken in olive oil and butter. After its done cooking, there will likely be brown bits in the bottom of the pan. Don’t discard them! They’ll create a flavorful base for our sauce.Chicken broth. This will help us scrape up those brown bits from cooking the chicken. If you’d like, you could substitute the broth with white wine.Garlic & onion. As with my rigatoni, we’ll use these two vegetables for lots of flavor.Heavy cream. For just the right amount of creaminess! Parmesan cheese. Just ¼ cup flavors the sauce. Make sure it melts into the cream before serving. Fresh parsley. This adds freshness to what could be a somewhat heavy dish. You can always skip it if you’re not a fan though!
SAM’S TIP: I always break my linguine in half before cooking (it makes it easier to eat) and drizzle it with a very small amount of oil afterward (to prevent sticking). I know I’m going to get some complaints about this, but it works for me and will make things easier for you too. If it really bothers you though, you can cook whole. Remember, this is just an overview of the ingredients I used and why. For the full recipe please scroll down to the bottom of the post!
How to Make Creamy Chicken Pasta
SAM’S TIP: The sauce will seem thin at first, but it will thicken the longer it sits and as the pasta soaks it up. If you have leftovers, the sauce will be mostly absorbed by the noodles, so I like to add a splash of chicken broth if I am reheating the next day. Enjoy!
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