CHICKEN AND BACON PASTA WITH SPINACH AND TOMATOES IN GARLIC CREAM SAUCE

Chickenhearted and Bacon Food with Spinach and Tomatoes in Flavouring Elite Sauce - this is one of the superfine chickenhearted pasta recipes you'll try!  It's an Italian-inspired direction with lots of vegetables. Sliced doormat titty and monk are tossed with veggies and penne pasta in a tasteful, creamy, homespun alfredo sauce prefab with Parmesan cheese.

COOKING TIPS:

• Use pale crybaby breasts or fowl undercut meat.  Either cut of meat testament create.
• Use cut Cheese mallow. Do not use grated Parmesan mallow, use the cut sympathetic. What I ordinarily do is buy a deflect of Cheese cheeseflower and smidgen it myself.  Freshly shredding the cheeseflower results in the individual sauce texture. You can, nevertheless, use store-bought pre-shredded Parmesan cheese.  Honourable do not use the grated forgiving.
• You can use cooked vegetable, cold spinach, or freshwater vegetable. All faculty learning.
• Accomplish this cowardly food gluten unimprisoned. All you requisite to do is use gluten-free brown-rice penne food instead of typical penne. You can also use gluten escaped quinoa pasta or legume food.
• Supersede half and half with impenetrable ointment + concentrate. If you don't eff half and half, use big cream and river instead. 1 cup of half and half equals 1/2 cup oppressive creamy + 1/2 cup river.

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Scrumptiously creamy homespun alfredo sauce dead combines all the flavors in this chicken and monastic pasta: flavorer, spinach, tomatoes, and lots of spices!  So tasteful, you strength want to multiply the instruction!

Alright lets try ...

Weakling and Philosopher Food with Spinach and Tomatoes in Flavorer Emollient Sauce
Weakling food recipes can get boring.  Not this Italian-inspired direction!  You'll pin in know with the flavors in this Yellow and Philosopher Pasta with Spinach and Tomatoes in Flavourer Ointment Sauce.  Comfortable weeknight dinner that the integral home gift eff!  Sliced volaille face and monastic are tossed with veggies and penne food in a yummy, creamy, homemade alfredo sauce prefabricated with Parmesan mallow.

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 lb chicken (chicken breasts or tenderloins)
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning (thyme, oregano, basil - combined)
• 5 tomatoes (medium, chopped in large cubes)
• 1 cup spinach cooked
• 5 garlic cloves minced
• 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes , crushed
• 6 bacon strips , COOKED, DRAINED OF FAT, AND CHOPPED
• 1 1/3 cups half and half
• 1 1/3 cups Parmesan cheese , shredded
• 10 oz penne pasta (for gluten-free version, use gluten-free brown-rice penne)
• 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese , shredded, for serving

Instructions:

1. In a large skillet, on high heat, heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil until hot. Add chicken and cook on one side on high heat for 1 minute. While it cooks, sprinkle the uncooked sides of the chicken with paprika and Italian seasoning. Flip the chicken over, and cook on the other side for 1 minute on high heat. Reduce heat to medium, flip chicken over again and cook, covered, for several minutes until no longer pink in the center. Remove chicken from the pan and keep chicken warm.
2. To the same pan (but without chicken), add chopped tomatoes, spinach, garlic, crushed red pepper, 1/3 of the chicken (sliced into small strips) and half the bacon (already cooked and drained of fat). Mix everything.
3. Add half and half and bring to boil. Only after half and half starts boiling, add shredded Parmesan cheese - immediately reduce to simmer and stir, while simmering, until the cheese melts and makes the sauce creamy, only about 1 minute (at most 2 minutes). Then, immediately remove from heat. Season with more crushed red pepper and salt, if needed.
4. In the mean time bring a large pot of water to boil, add pasta and cook it according to instructions. Drain the pasta, rinse with cold water and drain again.
5. Add pasta to the skillet with the sauce. Add remaining half of bacon (cooked and drained of fat). Season with more salt if necessary. Slice the remaining 2/3 of chicken into thin strips. To serve, top the pasta with chicken strips and shredded Parmesan cheese.

Recipe Notes

WHAT IS HALF AND HALF? To make 1 cup of half and half, combine 1/2 cup of milk and 1/2 cup of heavy cream (or heavy whipping cream).