Pasta with Alfredo Sauce

Pasta with Alfredo Sauce

Homemade Alfredo sauce with chicken and pasta of your choice.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Course Main Dish
Cuisine American
Servings 4 people

Ingredients
  

  • 1 1/2 packages Cream cheese, 250 grams per package
  • 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 block of 227 gram block of butter
  • 1 cup milk
  • 3-4 chicken breasts, boneless and skinless, cubed
  • 1 red bell pepper, chopped
  • 2-3 cloves garlic, crushed and chopped
  • salt and pepper, to taste
  • olive oil

Instructions
 

  • Cook the pasta of your choice, spaghetti would be good.
  • Melt cream cheese and butter in a saucepan, stir in the milk and ground pepper, and salt if you like.
  • In another saucepan, heat up 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil, then garlic and cook for a minute or two then add the chicken cubes and cook until just before the chicken is cooked through then add the red bell pepper and cook for a few more minutes, chicken should be tender and bell pepper crunchy. Do not over cook the chicken.
  • Pour the sauce over the chicken and mix, simmer for just a few minutes, at this point, add a handful of chopped fresh mushrooms.
  • Sauce will thicken, spoon over fresh pasta and top with grated Parmesan Cheese and ground black pepper.

Notes

All the ingredients makes this less than $1 per meal per person.
This is an easily adapted recipe, for the photo which I cooked on 6 Dec 2015, I omitted the chicken, and just added several large handfuls of fresh mushrooms, and then added fried bacon and ham.
Adapted from an internet recipe.

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