How to Prepare Delicious Pasta with chicken in cream cheese

Pasta with chicken in cream cheese. I've been crowned the Queen of Creamy-Without-Cream*, but today I'm dethroning myself temporarily just so I can share this Creamy Chicken and Bacon Recipe video above. For all those days when nothing but a creamy pasta will do! This one is loaded with all the essential food groups - chicken.

I added more cream cheese and some colby jack cheese into the sauce seasoned the chicken with oregano salt and pepper and cooked it with garlic. This cream cheese chicken recipe is honestly a FAVORITE of mine. I make it normally every other week. You can have Pasta with chicken in cream cheese using 11 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Pasta with chicken in cream cheese

1. It's 1 stalk of leek.
2. Prepare 1 of onion (red or yellow).
3. You need 2 cloves of garlic.
4. Prepare 250 grams of mushrooms.
5. You need 150-200 grams of chicken breast.
6. It's 50-100 grams of cream cheese (i.e. Boursin or Paturain).
7. Prepare 100-150 milliliter of cooking cream.
8. You need 50-75 grams of smoked bacon cubes or stripes.
9. It's 200-250 grams of pasta.
10. Prepare 1/2 bunch of curly or italian parsley.
11. You need of some fresh ground pepper and sea salt.

It is definitely part of my rotation of recipes that my kids love to eat. Italian Dressing Dry Mix (this is the kind we use and you can find it HERE). A recipe for Paula Deen and Real Women of Philadelphia! An easy recipe using Philadelphia cream cheese, asparagus, chicken, and bowtie pasta.

Pasta with chicken in cream cheese step by step

1. Cut the leek in half, then rings, wash thoroughly and put aside.
2. Peel the onion, cut in half, chop fine and put aside.
3. Peel and squash the garlic, chop fine and put aside.
4. Peel or brush the mushrooms, cut in quarters and put aside.
5. Wash the parsley and cut fine then put aside.
6. Cut the chicken in about 2cm cubes and put aside.
7. Bring a pan with water and some salt to a boil for the pasta.
8. Put a thick bottomed pan on medium high heat with some olive oil and first add the chicken and fry untill slightly tanned brown.
9. Lower the heat a little and add the bacon and onion then fry softly untill the onion is getting soft and looks glassy.
10. Add a some more olive oil, put up the heat and add the mushrooms. Fry them while stirring untill they shrink and get soft then add the garlic and leek rings too and fry another 2min.
11. You can put in the pasta now and boil it according instructions.
12. When the pasta is in, you can add the cream cheese to the chicken and let it melt while stirring. Now also add some cooking cream untill the sauce has the thickness and/or amount you wish and bring to taste with some pepper and salt if needed.
13. Finally add 1/2 of the parsley and let boil for two more minutes.
14. Serve with the pasta and garnish with the remaining parsley and eat with a fresh green salad.

Chicken Pasta in Creamy White Wine Parmesan Cheese Sauce will remind you of your favorite Italian dining experience! Now add heavy cream, wine, Italian Seasoning, salt and red pepper flakes. Bring mixture to a simmering point and then add ½ cup. Add the cream cheese to the skillet in chunks, then stir until it has melted into the sauce. Top the pasta with sliced green onions and serve.

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