Home Made Alfredo with Chicken + Broccoli

Well today I leaned that fettuccine is a shape of pasta, not part of the name of "Alfredo." 

Huh. Well, my friend Abby makes the best Alfredo anywhere, but here is my attempt with a few twists! (You can check out her blog at www.midwestglam.weebly.com)

This is an awesome take on Alfredo. It is not healthy. If you want to be healthy, stop now. (Bummer!)

Ingredients:

1. Chicken breast (I used 3, gotta have leftovers)

2. Mccormicks roasted garlic seasoning, salt, pepper, garlic powder or fresh garlic 

3. One box pasta 

4. One stick butter

5. 3/4 cup heavy cream

6. One bunch broccoli 

7. Olive oil

8. 1-2 cups Parmesan

I started by brushing the chicken in olive oil, adding the seasoning and then salt and pepper. Bake at 375 for roughly 25 minutes. 

Cut the broccoli into small florets. Steam them for about 7 minutes (at the end of all of this when the chicken and pasta are almost done!)

Boil your pasta! While you wait, cut up

Some garlic. Or use powder if you are lazy. 

Mix together Parmesan, pepper, salt, and garlic in separate bowl. 

Next, melt one stick of butter. 

This is not the most heart healthy of dinners. 

Add in the cream and let it heat up. 

Now, after it heated up, I poured it into the bowl with the Parmesan mixture. That was dumb. Instead, turn the heat down to low and add the Parmesan mixture to the burner. Wisk it a bit to get the cheese to dissolve. 

When it's melted, dump it all over the pasta and add the broccoli. 

Serve on a plate with the sliced chicken over it. 

Garlicky, buttery heaven. 

Roasted Chicken + Veggie Cream Sauce and Rice

This was actually so good. You could also make it with noodles instead of rice, which might make more sense? I don't know. I have 5 pounds of jasmine rice and no where to go so rice it was tonight. Now my only dilemma is that I'm full so I can't eat more, and I have tons of leftovers, but what if they don't keep well?

UGH. 

ok, lets get to it. 

Ingredients: (This recipe made about 4 servings of cream and rice)

SAUCE

1. veggies of your choice: I used cauliflower, broccoli, and asparagus. (about 3 cups worth, chopped)

2. 3 cups veggie or chicken broth (I used my home made veggie broth)

3. 2 tbsp kosher salt

CHICKEN

1. boneless skinless chicken breasts (I only had one large one thawed)

2. garlic powder

3. pepper

4. kosher salt

5. cayenne pepper

6. McCormicks roasted garlic and herb seasoning 

RICE 

1. 1 and 1/2 cup jasmine rice (if you try to make rice and it sucks, its because youre not using jasmine rice. jasmine rice is the only way to go). 

2. 1 and 1/2 cup water, or enough to barely cover the rice

Bring rice and water to a low boil.

Turn heat down to low.

Simmer for 20 mns with the LID ON. You want the steam to cook the rice. 

Boil the broth and then add the chopped veggies. Cook them until they are super easy to poke a fork into. 

Douse your chicken in seasonings and cook it at about 375 for 25 mns, or until done. 

Now whip out your immersion blender. If you don't have one, get one, and in the mean time use a blender or food processor if you must. Blend it up. 

Its gonna look gross. 

Now, add some heavy cream. If you don't want to, add butter. If you don't want to do that, add corn starch. Pick one. 

It should lighten up a bit. Take it off the heat, stir it, and add salt. Lots of salt! It should start to thicken up. 

And there it is! This was good because of all the flavor layering--the home made broth, the vegetables, the chicken and seasonings......I'm definitely bringing leftovers to work tomorrow!

Pimento & Broccoli Stuffed Chicken

So pimento's were on sale at the dollar store, and I love pimentos....or I should say I love green olives, which pimentos have in them...so theres that. I had a ton of stuff in my pantry I wanted to use, and I decided to mix er all up and stuff it in chicken, and deliciousness ensued. Check it out!

Ingredients:

1. one small jar pimentos

2. 1/2 cup bread crumbs

3. 1 tbsp garlic powder

5. 1 tbsp kosher salt

6. three chicken breasts

7. olive oil

8. black pepper to taste

9. 1 c broccoli (chopped or florets)

10. 4-5 slices of brie

Preheat oven to 400.

Mix together: pimentos, bread crumbs, spices, broccoli

^^awesome photo quality. 

Lay out the chicken breasts and pound them flat with your fists.

Lay the brie down on the chicken. 

Put the filling on the chicken.

Put the chicken in a pan with olive oil to prevent it from sticking.

Bake at 400 for about 25 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through. 

Done!