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Throw Together Chicken Dinner

a quick dinner of chicken filets
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes
Course Chicken, Main Course
Cuisine American, Italian, Mediterranean
Servings 1

Ingredients
  

  • butter 1 tbsp.for chicken 1/2 stick for the alfredo
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 small boneless skinless chicken breast or 1 large
  • garlic powder
  • black pepper
  • 1/4 cup heavy cream
  • 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
  • 1/4 pound fettuccini
  • 1 roma tomatoe sliced
  • 4-5 fresh basil leaves chopped

Instructions
 

  • I put a skillet on at medium high  and eyeballed about 2 tablespoons of olive oil and 1 tablespoon  of butter. Then another skillet with 1/2 stick of butter and 1/4 cup of heavy cream that I happened to have in the fridge from my last Fettuccini Alfredo indulgence. And, a pot of water for the fettuccini. I went ahead and put the fettuccini in and turned the heat up full blast to get that pasta going. I put a couple of small boneless skinless chicken breasts in the skillet. Sprinkled them with garlic powder and black pepper. Turned them over and sprinkled the other side.
  • The heavy cream was starting to bubble so I added the freshly grated parmesan cheese and mixed it up with the butter and cream.  The fettuccini had softened up so  it went into the creamy, buttery, cheesy mixture.
  • Turned the chicken filets over and let the Alfredo sauce thicken up.
  • Sliced up a Roma tomato and chopped up a few fresh basil leaves from the basil plants that Gammy keeps thriving out on the deck. Then I put it all together. Spooned some of the Alfredo sauce on the chicken and topped it all off with the chopped up fresh basil. Of course I had a  toasted slice of Poppop's easy homemade bread.
Keyword chicken, Italian, main course, Mediterranean Diet, quick and easy
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