Chicken Broccoli Alfredo

Ingredients

• Broccoli

  Raw

  ½ lb or 227g

• Pasta

  Fresh-refrigerated, plain, as purchased

  10 oz or 283g

• Olive oil

  Salad or cooking

  1 tbsp or 14g

• Butter

  Unsalted

  1 tbsp or 14g

• Chicken breast

  Broilers or fryers, meat only, raw

  2 lb or 907g

• Garlic

  Raw

  4 cloves, minced or 12g

• Heavy whipping cream

  Fluid

  1 cup, fluid or 238g

• Mozzarella cheese

  Whole milk

  1 ¼ cup, shredded or 140g

• Whole milk

  3.25% milkfat, with added vitamin D

  1 cup or 244g

Directions

1. Cook broccoli in boiling water for 5 minutes, drain well. Cut into small florets.
2. Cook pasta al dente according to package directions, drain.
3. In a large skillet heat olive oil and butter on medium-high heat (until hot but not smoking) and sauté chicken breast (seasoned generously with salt and pepper on both sides) for about 5 minutes on each side. Remove the skillet from heat, cover with the lid, and let the chicken rest, off heat, covered, until chicken is no longer pink in the center and cooked through. Remove chicken from the pan. Cut chicken into bite-size pieces.
4. Add minced garlic to the same skillet and cook it in chicken juices and oil remaining in the pan, scraping up the chicken bits from the bottom of the pan, on medium heat for about 30 seconds until garlic is fragrant, making sure to avoid burning. Add cooked and sliced broccoli and mix in with garlic. Remove from the pan.
5. To make the creamy sauce, in the same skillet heat up 1 cup of heavy cream until it boils. Immediately add the cheese and stir until melted and nice and creamy. Reduce heat to medium-low, and slowly, in small portions, add milk, constantly stirring, simmering, until nice and creamy consistency is reached.
6. Add cooked pasta to the creamy sauce, then add broccoli. Taste and season with salt and pepper. Top with sliced, cooked chicken. Enjoy!

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