Chicken Pesto Alfredo With Fettucine

Ingredients

Alfredo Ingredients:
1 pound Fettucine
12 tablespoons of butter
4 tablespoons of pesto sauce
Salt& Pepper to taste
Pesto Ingredients:
1 cup of fresh basil leaves
3 cloves of garlic
1/4 cup of pinenuts
Salt to taste
The olive oil, like most Italian food recipes, is measured by eye

Preparation

1
Rinse the fresh basil leaves in water. Then place all the basil leaves into the food processor by themselves.
2
Blend to a smooth consistency. I suggest blending for a 30 seconds and then stopping to scrap the sides with a spatula and then blending again until it's paste like.
3
Then add the pine nuts and the garlic and blend repeating the same stopping and scrapping technique. Scrap the pesto out of the processor into a bowl and add the Parmigiano Reggiano and pecorino cheeses.
4
Mix the cheeses with the fresh basil mixture until it has a creamy texture. Then in that same bowl drizzle the Olive Oil to the consistency you like and set aside till you're ready to add to the Alfredo. (You'll only use a tablespoon of this amount so wrap the rest and leave in refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.)
5
Now for the Alfredo Sauce:
6
This is a good time to add some fettucine to a pot of boiling water.
7
Melt the butter in a sauce pan but don't let it boil or it will separate. If it does, toss it out and start fresh. This sauce must be creamy.
8
Once the butter and cream are heated and begin to thicken naturally, As you begin to cook your fettucine whisk the butter and cream to make thicken. Now plop in a couple of table spoons of Pesto and stir.
9
Slowly add the cream and let is simmer for about 1 minute. It will thicken slightly as it heats but the sauce really get thick once you add the Parmigiano Reggiano.
10
As you cook your fettucine plop in a couple tablespoons of Pesto and stir.
11
Remove from heat, add the Parmigiano Reggiano and the chicken and stir. Then add the fettucine and stir once more.

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About

This was a combination of two of my favorite fettucine sauces. A great gourmet meal that the whole family will love. An affordable Chicken and pasta recipe.

Yield:

4.0 people

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Sunday, July 25, 2010 - 5:19pm

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