Chicken Broccoli Pasta with Bacon

Ingredients

• Olive oil

  Salad or cooking

  1 tbsp or 14g

• Chicken breast

  Broilers or fryers, meat and skin, raw

  1 lb or 454g

• Salt

  Table

  ¼ tsp or 2g

• Pepper

  Spices, black

  ¼ tsp or 0.5g

• Garlic

  Raw

  3 cloves, minced or 9g

• Heavy whipping cream

  Fluid

  ⅔ cup, whipped or 80g

• Reduced fat milk

  Fluid, 2% milkfat, with added vitamin a and vitamin d

  ⅔ cup or 163g

• Parmesan cheese

  Shredded

  1 cup or 80g

• Crispy brown rice

  Cereal ready-to-eat

  8 oz or 227g

• Broccoli

  Flower clusters, raw

  2 cup flowerets or 142g

• Bacon

  Raw, cured pork

  7 strip or 84g

Directions

1. Heat olive oil on medium-high heat in a large skillet. Season chicken breast with salt and pepper. Add chicken to the skillet.
2. Cook chicken breast on high heat for 2 to 4 minutes on each side, until browned. Remove the skillet from heat and keep the chicken covered. The chicken will continue cooking in its own steam until no longer pink. Remove chicken from the skillet. You can also use pre-cooked chicken. Cut chicken into thin slices.
3. Add minced garlic to the same (now empty) skillet, with oils and bits left from cooking the chicken.
4. Add heavy cream, milk, bring to boil. Reduce to simmer. Add cheese and stir till it completely melts into a creamy sauce.
5. Cook pasta according to instructions. Drain.
6. Add cooked pasta, cooked bacon, cooked broccoli to the creamy sauce and mix everything in.
7. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Top with sliced cooked chicken.
8. Recipe by: Julia (source: https://juliasalbum.com/creamy-broccoli-chicken-and-bacon-pasta-recipe/)