How to Make Super Quick Homemade Chicken Mozzarella Pasta

Hettie Huff   27/06/2020 09:27

Chicken Mozzarella Pasta
Chicken Mozzarella Pasta

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, chicken mozzarella pasta. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Chicken Mozzarella Pasta is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Chicken Mozzarella Pasta is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

Cook pasta according to package directions. Heat olive oil over medium-high heat. Add chicken pieces in a single layer and sprinkle with salt and pepper.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook chicken mozzarella pasta using 16 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Mozzarella Pasta:
  1. Prepare Sauce:
  2. Take olive oil
  3. Get large zucchini, thinly sliced
  4. Get yellow onion, finely diced
  5. Get garlic, minced
  6. Make ready unsalted crushed tomatoes
  7. Get each sugar, dried basil
  8. Take each salt, pepper
  9. Get dried oregano
  10. Get heaping cups chopped spinach
  11. Get Pasta:
  12. Take olive oil, divided
  13. Take boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite sized pieces
  14. Get Penne pasta
  15. Take shaved parmesan cheese
  16. Take fresh mozzarella cheese, cut into bite sized cubes

Who doesn't love a quick meal? Especially during the workweek when time is limited. Season the chicken tenders with salt, pepper and paprika then cook them in the pan for a minute on each side. Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat.

Instructions to make Chicken Mozzarella Pasta:
  1. Start by cooking the zucchini and getting the sauce ready. In a large pot, heat the olive oil. Cook the zucchini coins until they are just tender, then remove them to a plate and set them aside. If needed, add a bit more oil to the pot, then add the onion with a pinch of salt and cook, stirring often, until they have softened up. Stir in the garlic and cook another minute or so, until fragrant. Then pour in the crushed tomatoes and stir in the sugar and seasonings.
  2. Once the sauce begins to simmer, lower the heat and let it bubble gently. Heat a large pot of salted water over high heat. Once it boils, cook the penne pasta according to the package directions. Once the pasta is done, drain it, then return it to the pot and toss lightly with 1 tbsp of olive oil. Sprinkle the shaved parmesan over the pasta and set it aside.
  3. While your waiting on the pasta water to come to a boil, start the chicken. In a large, deep skillet, heat the remaining 1 tbsp of olive oil over med-high heat. Once it's hot, add the chicken to the skillet and season it with salt and pepper. Cook until it's all browned and completely cooked through. Then place your chicken over top of the pasta.
  4. Last, stir the spinach into the simmering sauce. Once it wilts down, stir the zucchini and mozzarella cheese cubes into it. Stir gently until the mozzarella begins to soften. Before it completely melts, remove the sauce from the heat and pour it over top of the chicken and pasta. Then serve.

Add the chicken pieces in a single layer and sprinkle with salt and pepper. The sauce is made from scratch by combining cream with shredded Mozzarella cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, garlic, basil, and red pepper flakes. Cooked chicken and penne pasta are then smothered in this delicious creamy Mozzarella pasta sauce. There is enough sauce to coat every single bite. Ingredients for sun-dried tomato sauce Preheat the grill to high.

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