Pasta with Alfredo Sauce
Homemade Alfredo sauce with chicken and pasta of your choice.
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.