Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, creamy pesto pasta with camembert bacon and chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Made with cream, parmesan, chicken, bacon and garlic. 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 Pasta with you without an inkling of guilt. I would say it turned out reasonably well.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook creamy pesto pasta with camembert bacon and chicken using 13 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Creamy pesto pasta with camembert bacon and chicken:
- Get 400 grams penne/pasta
- Prepare 2 large chicken breasts cut into bite size pieces
- Prepare 8 slice bacon chopped
- Take 1 medium Red onion chopped
- Get 1 clove garlic minced
- Make ready 1/2 cup Basil pesto
- Take 300 ml heavy cream
- Get 1/4 cup white wine
- Prepare 1 cup Reserved water from pasta
- Take 250 grams Camembert cheese, rind trimmed off and cut into small chunks
- Prepare olive oil
- Get salt
- Get salt and pepper
Be sure to taste and salt before serving, because depending on what kind of chicken broth you use, the dish may require no salt at all or may be extremely under-salted. How to make Creamy Chicken Bacon Pesto Pasta. Sauté bacon in a saucepan or medium wok until slightly crispy. Set aside half of the bacon for topping.
Instructions to make Creamy pesto pasta with camembert bacon and chicken:
- Cook pasta in boiling water. (Add salt to taste and olive oil to prevent sticking after it's drained)
- While pasta is cooking add oil to a separate pan and cook through chicken until tender (season to taste) when it's finished remove to a bowl and set aside, covered with foil.
- When pasta is cooked scoop out your reserve water, drain pasta and leave to the side in the colander
- Pre heat oven to 350°F (180c)
- Give your pan a good wipe. Re-oil and add bacon, frying until just slightly cooked.
- Add onion to the pan and fry until just translucent, then toss in the garlic, give it another minute or so, until everything is done to your liking, then give it a good stir.
- Splash in the wine to deglaze the pan, give the bottom a bit of a scrape to bring up the flavors and let it cook off for a bit.
- Pour in about 1/3 cup of your reserved water (save the rest if you prefer to thin your sauce out later) mix in your cream and the pesto, stirring to get a good mix.
- Return chicken to your pan and give it a good stir.
- Now slowly add the pasta, tossing to get a good coat on all the noodles. (you can leave some out if you prefer the dish to be saucier)
- Continue cooking over medium heat (with a slight bubble) to let everything cook together. Give it a taste, you'll know when it's ready.
- Transfer to a baking dish (or just use your pan if it's oven safe) Then cover the top with little chunks of the camembert cheese.
- Pop in the oven for about 10 minutes or until cheese is nice and melted.
- When cheese is melted give it a really good stir through so it spreads throughout the dish, then return to the oven for another five minutes or so.
- Remove from oven, allow it to cool and then enjoy.
Toss in cooked pasta until the sauce is evenly distributed. Transfer to a serving platter and top with crispy bacon bits. There's nothing complicated about this Creamy Chicken and Bacon Pasta recipe, but it's everything you could want when we need a comforting. When comfort is the dish of the day, this Creamy Chicken Bacon Pesto Pasta is sure to satisfy cravings! Made with fresh milk, hard cheese and pesto, this quick and easy pasta recipe will be a hit with friends and family.
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