I've got another good one for you. Chicken alfredo!
Who doesn't like a good hearty alfredo sauce?
Communists?
Maybe.
But then again there may be a family of communists out there that actually LOVE alfredo sauce and if there isn't a family like that out there, well then after they read this blog, we might have found our first..
Alfredo Lovin' Communist Family!
:)
Cooking Time: 1 1/2 hours
Yield: 4-5 servings
So what you will need for the sauce is:
Half a stick of butter
A shallot (chopped)
A few cloves of garlic (chopped)
2 quarts of heavy whipping cream
1 cup of white wine
fresh chopped mushrooms (if desired)
Salt
Pepper
and for the chicken:
Olive oil
1 or 2 chopped garlic cloves
Chicken Breasts cleaned and deveined and cut into chunks or strips
Salt and pepper
and pasta, of course:
1 box of Fettuccine pasta
or if you have the luxury, fresh pasta would be amazing.
The SAUCE:
Start by melting your half stick of butter. Once it's melted add your chopped shallots and garlic. Let that cook for about a minute on medium heat. Add your cream and your wine. Add salt and pepper to taste. Quite a bit of salt. Like three or four good pinches. Keep stirring every now and then, and watch it closely so it doesn't boil over and you don't want it to burn either. You want to see a slow rolling boil. You need your cream to reduce so that way the cream can thicken up and to not be runny like milk. You'll know it has reduced once it can coat a spoon. Once it has been cooking for about 15 minutes, add the mushrooms. This way the mushrooms can absorb the flavor. Let this keep cooking and stirring every 5 minutes or so.
Once you've been cooking the sauce for about a half an hour, get your frying pan ready and hot.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
Keep stirring your sauce!
The CHICKEN:
Salt and pepper the chicken with a little bit of garlic powder.
Get a frying pan ready with a splash of hot extra virgin olive oil and some chopped garlic.
Once the garlic is in there and the oil is bubbling around the garlic, STIR YOUR SAUCE! put in your chicken. Once the chicken is cooked about half way, (white on both sides and still pink in the middle) transfer to a oven safe dish or a pie pan. Something oven proof. Transfer your chicken to the oven safe pan and put in the oven for about a half an hour. Make sure that your chicken IS NOT pink in the middle when it comes out of the oven.
Stir the sauce some more!
Now start boiling your water in a big enough pot for pasta. STIR THE SAUCE! Throw some salt in the water to flavor your pasta. Not oil. I don't think oil helps anything.
Is your sauce thickening? If not, don't add the pasta just yet.
Once you see a change in sauce, it's ok to add your pasta to the water, but only if your water is boiling, of course.
You should cook your pasta to al dente (to the tooth) and then drain your pasta. By the time your pasta is done, your sauce should be thick enough to coat a spoon.
Take your chicken out of the oven. Turn off the oven but only if your chicken is cooked through which it should be.
Turn down your sauce to low and add your noodles still cooking for maybe 3 to 5 minutes in the sauce.
Once all of your noodles are coated in the sauce,
Eat and Enjoy!
or as the Italians like to say,
mangiare e godere!
This is my own little creation. I haven't made alfredo sauce many times before but it is one of the sauces I am trying to perfect and this time it came out really well. It could've used a little salt but besides that, it was hearty and rich with great flavor. I've been watching at work because sometimes they make chicken alfredo for dinner and the 4 main things you need are:
shallots, garlic, cream, and wine.
One great thing about this is that if you're a vegetarian, you don't need the chicken. Just the sauce and noodles would be a great dish for anyone who doesn't eat meat. Or maybe even eat it as a dish for the Lenten season. It's up to you.
So i've been working on this one and I think it would be cool to throw a couple splashes of tobasco to give it a little kick or maybe even some fresh basil to give it more of a unique flavor. I just love making this and everyone enjoyed it.
Let me know what you think of it if you try it!
And if you have any questions, leave me a comment.
Oh and by the way, I'm sorry there aren't any pictures for this one. I was so hungry last night I didn't want to take any more time to take a picture. I'm sorry but if you make it, send me your pictures! And I can add them to the blog as my viewers pictures! That would be awesome! Please do it! That'd be so much more rewarding for me than money!
Thanks for reading!
