Chicken Bacon Sundried Tomato Pasta. Leftover rotissere chicken is also an option. While I love a good pasta sauce, sometimes I just don't want it. Making pasta this way allows for some real yummy goodness and a real rustic feel, sans the sauce.
The sun-dried tomato pasta sauce is made from scratch using basil, red pepper flakes, garlic, paprika, cream, and shredded Mozzarella cheese. I am a huge fan of pasta, and some of the most popular pasta recipes on this site include this chicken mozzarella pasta that you are. Top each chicken breast with creamed spinach, sun-dried tomatoes (drained from oil and chopped into smaller bites), chopped cooked bacon, and broken slices of pepper jack cheese. You can cook Chicken Bacon Sundried Tomato Pasta using 8 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Chicken Bacon Sundried Tomato Pasta
- You need 1 (16 oz) of bag penne pasta.
- You need 1/2 package of bacon.
- It's 1 (8 oz) of jar sun dried tomatoes in oil.
- Prepare 1 (8 oz) of bag shredded white cheddar cheese.
- You need of Garlic powder for seasoning.
- Prepare 2 of chicken breasts or 4 chicken cutlets.
- You need 2 tbs of butter.
- Prepare 2 of green onions/scallions.
Drain off some of the fat, add some cream and a little pasta water, the sliced soaked tomatoes and some chopped spinach. Cook a couple minutes and that's it. Set aside or cover and refrigerate for later use. Pasta: Bring a large saucepan of lightly salted water to a boil.
Chicken Bacon Sundried Tomato Pasta step by step
- Cook chicken (or you can use pre-cooked). I usually boil water with a little bit of chicken broth & garlic & herb seasoning. When water is boiled, add chicken & cook 20 minutes. Start cooking bacon over medium heat. Boil water for pasta & cook 1 minute less than package says. Once chicken is cooked, remove & cube..
- Once bacon is almost done, add chicken l, Sundried tomatoes, butter & green onion, sprinkle garlic powder. Saute until chicken is warm & bacon is crisp. *optional: add 1tsp minced garlic & chop bacon*.
- Add cooked pasta to pan, then bag of cheese. Mix around. If desired add more cheese or alfredo sauce. Enjoy..
Place bacon in a large deep frypan. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. When you scan the ingredients in this recipe, or, quite simply, see the photos, you know it's going to be a winner. Pasta + chicken in a creamy parmesan garlic sauce with sun dried tomato = a sure fire hit with everyone! This is kind of like a sun dried tomato pesto pasta…but it's creamy. 🙂 You will never, ever get a store bought sauce with this much sun dried tomato flavour in my Creamy Sun Dried Tomato Pasta.