Chicken Bacon Pasta with Spinach and Tomatoes #dinner #pasta

Chicken and Bacon Pasta with Spinach and Tomatoes in Garlic Cream Sauce – an Italian-roused dish with heaps of vegetables! Cut chicken bosom and bacon are hurled with veggies and penne pasta in a heavenly, smooth, hand crafted Alfredo sauce made with Parmesan cheddar.

Longing for a simple to-make comfort nourishment that an entire family will adore? At that point, make this chicken and bacon pasta! Cream sauce assimilates the awesome flavors from the fixings in the recipe, and with each and every chomp, you get all the integrity and every one of the flavors! This is extraordinary compared to other chicken pasta recipes you'll ever try!

Make this chicken pasta gluten free? You should simply utilize sans gluten dark colored rice penne pasta rather than standard penne. You can also utilize without gluten quinoa pasta or lentil pasta.

This chicken and bacon pasta recipe is so natural to make and uses such fundamental fixings, that you can without much of a stretch make it on an ordinary occupied weeknight! Delectably velvety natively constructed alfredo sauce consummately consolidates every one of the flavors in this chicken and bacon pasta: garlic, spinach, tomatoes, and loads of flavors! So delectable, you should twofold the recipe!

Also try our recipe Bacon Wrapped Cheese Stuffed Chicken

This chicken and bacon pasta recipe is so natural to make and uses such essential fixings, that you can without much of a stretch make it on a standard occupied weeknight!

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 lb chicken (chicken breasts or tenderloins)
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning (thyme, oregano, basil - combined)
• 5 tomatoes (medium, chopped in large cubes)
• 1 cup spinach cooked
• 5 garlic cloves minced
• 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes , crushed
• 6 bacon strips , COOKED, DRAINED OF FAT, AND CHOPPED
• 1 1/3 cups half and half
• 1 1/3 cups Parmesan cheese , shredded
• 10 oz penne pasta (for gluten-free version, use gluten-free brown-rice penne)
• 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese , shredded, for serving

Instructions

1. In a large skillet, on high heat, heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil until hot. Add chicken and cook on one side on high heat for 1 minute. While it cooks, sprinkle the uncooked sides of the chicken with paprika and Italian seasoning. Flip the chicken over, and cook on the other side for 1 minute on high heat. Reduce heat to medium, flip chicken over again and cook, covered, for several minutes until no longer pink in the center. Remove chicken from the pan and keep chicken warm.
2. To the same pan (but without chicken), add chopped tomatoes, spinach, garlic, crushed red pepper, 1/3 of the chicken (sliced into small strips) and half the bacon (already cooked and drained of fat). Mix everything.
3. Add half and half and bring to boil. Only after half and half starts boiling, add shredded Parmesan cheese - immediately reduce to simmer and stir, while simmering, until the cheese melts and makes the sauce creamy, only about 1 minute (at most 2 minutes). Then, immediately remove from heat. Season with more crushed red pepper and salt, if needed.
4. In the mean time bring a large pot of water to boil, add pasta and cook it according to instructions. Drain the pasta, rinse with cold water and drain again.
5. Add pasta to the skillet with the sauce. Add remaining half of bacon (cooked and drained of fat). Season with more salt if necessary. Slice the remaining 2/3 of chicken into thin strips. To serve, top the pasta with chicken strips and shredded Parmesan cheese.

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