Chicken Alfredo Pasta
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 15-20 minutes concurrently
Serves 4
Oil for frying
- 250g/8.8ozs pasta
- Oil for frying
- 1 white or brown onion, peeled and diced
- 4 garlic cloves, peeled and diced
- 450g/1lb chicken breast or tenderloins
- 125g/4ozs low fat cream cheese
- 200ml/7flozs low fat or skim evaporated milk
- 1 teaspoon chicken stock powder
- 50g/1.7ozs parmesan cheese
- Salt and pepper to taste
Step 1 - First put pasta on to boil in a large pot of salted water for 8 minutes. Reserve 1/2 cup of pasta cooking water.
Step 2 - Meanwhile, and I recommend doing this concurrently while the pasta is cooking, cut the chicken breast into small bite sized pieces. If you are using a chicken breast cut it in half horizontally and then cut it into tenderloin sized portions. Then cut these in half vertically and then into smaller pieces. You basically don't want big chunks of chicken, you want child bite sized pieces. Fry the chicken in 2 tablespoons of oil in a large frying pan and when it starts to brown add in the onion and saute until onion becomes fragrant and softened. Add the garlic in and fry for a minute.
Step 3 - Push the chicken and onion mix to the side of the pan and add the cream cheese to the pan and stir and allow to melt. Once melted, add the evaporated milk and chicken stock powder. Once it becomes a smooth mixture add the pasta and broccolini back into the pan. Add parmesan cheese and toss well adding some pasta cooking water to loosen the sauce. Season with salt and pepper.
When I was making this, Teddy and Milo were obviously hanging around in the hopes of getting a stray piece of chicken. I gave them a tiny bit of raw chicken when I finished cutting it up but they stuck around hoping for more. After cooking I started cleaning up my fridge of all of the leftovers and shifting things into smaller containers. Then I noticed there was an egg in a carton that had just broken.
Teddy and Milo both love eggs but nobody more than Teddy Elliott. Remember the time where Teddy stole, smashed and ate a carton of 6 raw eggs? Well that awakened a voracious appetite for eggs so much so that his is nickname is "eggybébé". Teddy is 1 kilo lighter than Milo with a much smaller appetite (Teddy eats half of what Milo does) and they will usually never fight over food. But when Teddy saw me crack the egg and put it in his brother's bowl his eyes widened and he ran over in an instant.
He pushed his little fluffy white head into the bowl and nudged Milo out of the way. Teddy has never nudged his brother out of the way for anything but he was single minded in his pursuit of his beloved eggys. This time I had to nudge him out of the way for Milo to get some. Imagine if he ever gets to try pasta Alfredo with chicken!
So tell me Dear Reader, what is a food that you'd nudge someone out of the way for? Do you like pasta Alfredo?