Friday, September 12, 2014

Garlic Chicken Rigatoni


Ingredients
* 16 oz uncooked rigatoni or penne pasta
* 1/2 cup sun dried tomatoes (not packed in oil)
* 1/2 cup boiling water
* 1/2 lb boneless skinless chicken breast cut into 1 inch cubes
* 1/4 tsp garlic salt
* 2 tbsp AP flour
* 2 tbsp olive oil, divided
* 8 oz fresh mushrooms, sliced
*3 garlic cloves, minced
* 1/2 cup white wine, divided
* 2 cups chicken broth
* 2 tbsp minced fresh parsley
* 1/4 tsp dried basil
* 1/8 tsp salt
* 1/8 tsp pepper
* 1/8 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
* grated Parmesan, for serving

Directions
1. Cook the pasta according to the box directions.
2. In a small bowl combine the sun-dried tomatoes and the boiling water.  Let stand 5 minutes, then drain and chop the tomatoes.
3. Sprinkle the chicken with the garlic salt and then toss with the flour.  In a large skillet, heat 1 tbsp of oil over medium high heat.  Add the chicken; cook and stir for 4-5 minutes or until no longer pink.  Remove the chicken from the pan and keep warm.
4. In the now empty skillet heat the remaining oil over medium-high heat.  Add the mushrooms and garlic and cook and stir until tender, 4-5 minutes.  De-glaze the pan with 1/4 cup of wine.  Combine the remaining wine, chicken broth, parsley, basil, salt, pepper, red pepper flakes and tomatoes.  Stir this mixture into the mushrooms and bring to a boil.  Stir in the chicken and heat through.
5. Drain the pasta and add it to the chicken mixture.  Serve with Parmesan cheese.  Enjoy!

Notes
We absolutely loved this - all of us!  And you cannot believe how easy this was to throw together.  I had 3/4 lb of chicken in the freezer so I used that, and I didn't need to adjust any of the ingredients.  This is similar to another favorite or ours,chicken, broccoli and sun-dried tomato stir fry, but definitely not the same.  The leftovers were delicious the next day; I look forward to making this again!

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