Chicken Alfredo
Recipe: #26192
June 09, 2017
Categories: Cheese, Parmesan, Fettuccine, Italian, Butter/Margarine, Italian Dinner, more
"From Super Food Ideas March '17. A healthy take on a creamy pasta dish the secret being to use some of the pasta water in the making of the dish."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (223.7 g)
- Calories 595.7
- Total Fat - 21.9 g
- Saturated Fat - 12.4 g
- Cholesterol - 179 mg
- Sodium - 260.8 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 76.9 g
- Dietary Fiber - 10.4 g
- Sugars - 0.2 g
- Protein - 24.8 g
- Calcium - 309.6 mg
- Iron - 2.2 mg
- Vitamin C - 2.2 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Cook pasta in a large saucepan of boiling, sated water, following packet directions.
Step 2
Reserve 1 cup of the cooking water and drain pasta and set aside.
Step 3
Meanwhile melt butter in a large frying pan over medium-high heat and add eschalot and cook, stirring for 2 minutes or until soft and then add cream and bring to a simmer and reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 3 minutes and then remove from heat and add parmesan and stir until smooth and season with salt and pepper.
Step 4
Increase heat to medium and return pan to heat and add pasta, chicken and 1/2 the reserved pasta water and toss gently for 2 minutes or until the sauce thickens and coats the pasta (pasta sauce should not be pooled in the bottom of the pan, adding more reserved pasta water, if needed.
Step 5
Remove from heat and sprinkle with extra parmesan and parsley and serve.
Tips
No special items needed.