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This savoury and delicious dinner only takes about 20 minutes to cook and prepare. Its a simple dish that is sure to make your mouth water! I look at cooking the easy way.
Let’s get started! in order to make this recipe you will need the following ingredients:
2 Chicken Breasts (cubed)
1 cup of Penne Pasta
6 cloves of garlic
1/2 cup of Parsley
1/4 cup of unsalted butter
2 Tbsp of Flour
Salt & Pepper
1/3 cup of Chicken Stock
Grape-seed Oil
Now that you have your ingredients out in front of you, you are going to turn the stove on medium-high heat. Fill your pasta pot with water and a pinch of salt. While your water is boiling you are going to prepare the chicken portion of this recipe.
First, you will want to trim the chicken. What does this mean? Typically chicken breasts are machine-separated. This meaning that no one took the time to look for veins or little bones. When you go to cut the chicken breast, remove first the extra fat and then trim. You will then be ready to cut your chicken into 1-inch sized cubes.
cube the chicken breasts
After trimming and cubing your chicken breasts, place them into a bowl and set them off to the side. Next, you are going to take your garlic and chop it into thin slices. Place into a separate dish and set to the side. Then take your bundle of parsley and bunch it together (stems and all) and finely chop. Place into a separate dish and set to the side. Now is the time to heat up your pan for the chicken.
Taking your Chicken put in your salt and pepper (use as little or as much as you want) lightly toss with your flour till all the cubes are lightly coated. As you finish prepping your chicken, the water should be boiling. When it is boiling put your 1 cup of penne pasta in. Give it a stir to get it going.
Your pan should now be hot. Put the grapeseed oil in the pan and then put it in your chicken. Make sure to break up all the pieces so that they can all cook evenly. You want to see the flour on the chicken turn into a beautiful golden brown (or 165 °F) to know that it’s ready for your next step.
Make sure the chicken is golden brown before adding in your next ingredient
Once the Chicken is ready you are going to move the chicken to the edges of the pan. Add the garlic into the middle. You don’t want to brown the onion but you do want to make sure it is cooked. The garlic shouldn’t take any longer than a couple of minutes. When it is cooked started to mix it in with your chicken. Now add your butter. Coat the chicken and the butter, deglazing the pan at the same time. You will start to smell a wonderful buttery and garlic aroma. Add 1/2 cup of parsley. Give it a toss. Then put in your chicken stock and reduce your heat. For 3 minutes cook this together and you will have an amazing buttery sauce coating your chicken. Give it a taste!
While you have these 3 minutes take the pasta out of the pot and drain.
By seasoning the chicken and not the butter you will have a more flavourful dish
Then stir in the penne pasta with the chicken and sauce, let it soak up the buttery goodness and parsley. If your pasta is starting to stick together, you can put a little bit of the pasta’s water into the pan to separate.
Now you are ready to move your delicious dinner from pan to plate!
Bon Apetit!
