Baked Cheesy Pasta With Chicken

Ingredients

1 pound Penne Rigate--another short pasta will work as well
1 cup + ½ grated cheese--mozzarella, fontina, etc (a combination works well)
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
3 tablespoons all purpose flour plus extra flour for dredging chicken
2 cups of milk
1 bell pepper diced--any color will do
1/2 of a large yellow onion diced
2 cloves of garlic minced
olive oil
garlic power
pepper

Preparation

1
Preheat oven to 400 degrees
2
Pound the chicken breasts with a mallet or pot until thin
3
Heat olive oil in a skillet at medium-high heat
4
Season the chicken breasts with salt, pepper, and garlic power
5
Dredge the chicken breasts in flour shaking off the excess
6
Cook chicken until browned on each side--doesn't have to be cooked through
7
Take chicken out and reserve
8
Saute the onion, bell pepper, and garlic in a skillet until the onion is soft
9
Remove from the skillet and reserve
10
Cook pasta in salted boiling water till just under al dente
11
Drain pasta and put back in the pot that it was cooked in
12
Heat milk in a sauce pan until warm
13
Melt butter in a sauce pan at medium heat
14
Once melted, add the 3 tablespoons of flour
15
Stir constantly to form the roux
16
Add the milk and continue to stir
17
Once the sauce becomes thick enough to barely coat the back of a wooden spoon, take it off the heat and add most of the cheese, salt, and pepper
18
Dice the chicken into bite size pieces and add to the pasta
19
Add onion, bell pepper, and garlic to the pasta and chicken
20
Pour the cheese sauce over the pasta, chicken, and vegetables
21
Mix well to coat then transfer to a baking dish that has been sprayed with cooking spray
22
Top with remaining cheese plus Parmesan cheese
23
Place in oven and cook until top is browned

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About

Delicious baked pasta
Chicken comes out delicious by itself but is even better in the final product
Enjoy

Yield:

4.0

Added:

Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 9:23pm

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