American

Weeknight Chicken Alfredo

Name: Weeknight Chicken Alfredo
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 lb penne; 1.5 lb boneless skinless chicken breasts; 1 tbsp olive oil; 2 garlic cloves; 24 oz jarred alfredo sauce; 1 cup frozen peas; 1/3 cup grated parmesan; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Nora @nora_mpls

Weeknight Chicken Alfredo is American home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

25 min Easy Halal

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 lb penne
1.5 lb boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 tbsp olive oil
2 garlic cloves
24 oz jarred alfredo sauce
1 cup frozen peas
1/3 cup grated parmesan
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Boil the penne in salted water until al dente, then drain.
Meanwhile, cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces and season with salt and pepper.
Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat and cook the chicken, stirring occasionally, until browned and cooked through, about 8 minutes.
Add the garlic and cook 1 minute, then pour in the jarred alfredo sauce and the peas and simmer 3 minutes.
Toss with the drained penne and top with parmesan.

Serve it with

A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Weeknight Chicken Alfredo, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Buttered Corn
  
  8 min
What it is eaten with
- Baked Potato
  
  60 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Weeknight Chicken Alfredo carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Weeknight Chicken Alfredo
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Gluten	Yes	Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 620 kcal
Protein: 34 g
Carbs: 52 g
Fat: 30 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 5 g
Sodium: 780 mg
Saturated fat: 13 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Weeknight Chicken Alfredo takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.