Pasta with Chicken and Mushroom Sauce
September 29th, 2012 in Chicken, Main Dishes by Julia Volhina
Total cooking time: 40min
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Creamy chicken and mushroom sauce with feta cheese and parsley will work for any kind of pasta.
Don’t forget that different kinds of pasta require different time for cooking: check instructions on pasta package and adjust steps accordingly so both sauce and pasta are ready approximately in the same time.
By the way, white champignons can substitute for brown cremini mushrooms in this recipe.
Ingredients:
- Pasta of your choice for 4 servings
- 1 lb of chicken breast meat
- 0.75lb of small cremini mushrooms or white champignons
- 1 onion
- 3.5oz of feta cheese
- 1 cup of heavy cream
- Bunch of fresh green parsley
- A tablespoon of sunflower or olive oil
- Ground black pepper to taste
- Salt to taste
How to prepare, step-by-step:
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Prepare ingredients: either cremini or white champignons will work for this recipe, cremini have more distinctive taste; if you can’t find button mushrooms, use big ones, just slice them in quarters:
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Put a cooking pot with water for pasta to a burner (you wil use it to cook pasta a bit later). Warm up deep frying pan with a tablespoon of oil over moderate heat; peel onion, slice it in quarter circles and fry them until colored, stir occasionally:
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Rinse chicken breasts, pat them dry with paper towel, dice and fry with onions until colored from each side:
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When water in the pot starts boiling, salt it to taste, add 1-2 tablespoons of oil and put pasta in:
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Clean mushrooms, slice bigger ones in halves or quarters and add to the frying pan, fry for 5-8 mins, stir occasionally:
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Add heavy whipping cream, bring to boil and reduce heat to light simmering, cook for 5-8 mins:
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Season with salt and ground black pepper to taste:
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Mash feta cheese with a fork or grate it on big slots of grater, add to the sauce:
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And chopped green parsley:
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Stir everything and cook for 2-3 mins together, then remove from the burner:
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By this time pasta should be cooked already, drain it in colander:
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Serve prepared sauce over a bed of cooked pasta:
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