Pollo e Funghi

Lean chicken pieces, spring onions, freshly sliced mushrooms cooked with grated parmesan cream sauce …..

I use one pan for this dish to get all the flavors and if you go through other recipes, they call for boiled chicken. I think boiled chicken is just too bland, so I marinate my chicken in aromatic spices and stir fry it before putting it into the cream sauce.

Ingredients:

• 350 gms pasta (penne, any)
• 300 mL fresh full cream
• 1 cup grated parmesan cheese + some extra to garnish
• 4 tbspns chopped spring onion to garnish
• 100 gms butter
• 1 cup fresh mushrooms
• 1 cup chopped baby spinach

FOR CHICKEN

• 1 chicken breast cut into thin slices
• Some salt and pepper to season
• ½ tspn onion powder
• ½ tspn garlic powder
• ½ tspn paprika

Procedure:

-Boil pasta to al dente.

-Marinade chicken for 30 minutes. Melt butter in a pan and stir fry marinated chicken until its cooked but not too dark.

-Take it out and in the same pan, in the same chicken flavoured butter fry mushrooms and take them out with the chicken.

-Now melt some more butter in the same pan and add cream. Let it cook on low heat for 2 minutes and then add parmesan cheese. When the sauce begins to thicken add stir fried chicken, mushrooms and baby spinach. Mix and add boiled pasta.

-Mix & toss.

-Dish out and garnish with some spring onion and parmesan cheese.

-Serve hot.