Healthy Kitchen Flavors: Chicken and Pasta with Gourmet Cheese Sauce and Vegetables

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Chicken and Pasta with Gourmet Cheese Sauce and Vegetables

I was inspired by a recent date to the Olive Garden, and the result was this! This meal is great for a romantic evening inside, and has lots of flavor to go around too. This dish uses complimenting recipes from other previous posts on this blog, so I hope it's not confusing. :)

Here's what you need:

1 box of penne pasta

Olive oil for drizzling

1/2 cup red/yellow/orange bell peppers, chopped

1/2 cup mushrooms sliced

1 Tbsp oil for sauteing

Ingredients for the Gourmet Cheese Sauce

Ingredients for the 3 Pan Fried Chicken breasts

Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain water. Drizzle olive oil and stir to keep pasta from sticking to each other. Set aside.

While you have the pasta boiling, you can start on the vegetables. Over medium heat, add oil to a skillet and add peppers and mushrooms, stirring occasionally until vegetables become soft (10-15 minutes).

Meanwhile, prepare the Gourmet Cheese Sauce according to directions on the post.

Meanwhile (have you run out of burners yet?), prepare the chicken breasts according to directions on the post. Note: If this is too much multi-tasking at once, prepare the chicken ahead of time, and reheat in the microwave just before use.