Alfredo Sauce Mishaps – Take One

This isn’t a traditional Fettuccine Alfredo.  I’ve read that a traditional Alfredo sauce is just butter and Parmesan Cheese.  One of these days, I’ll try that but for now, I’ll stick with this yummy sauce.

Here is my first attempt at the sauce… Don’t be fooled, I can’t always cook apparently 🙂

Ingredients
1/2 lb Fettuccine
1 lb cooked chicken
1 1/4 cup chicken broth
4 tsp flour
4 oz cream cheese
3 tbsp Parmesan Cheese
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp pepper

Cook the pasta according to the directions on your package. (but remember to start a large enough pot…)

Cook up your chicken into either strips or bite sized pieces.  (we cheated b/c we grilled chicken the night before and I just used that.)

Place your chicken broth into a large pan.

Add 4 tsp flour (don’t grab the tablespoon and use it like I did… woops… I wasn’t paying attention and my sauce was THICK!)

Mix the flour in with a whisk, then add your cream cheese.

Whisk it around until it melts into the chicken broth/flour mixture.

Then add your seasonings.  (At the last minute I decided to use another seasoning from my mom’s recent trip to Chicago when she brought us back all those seasonings)

I always heard/read with a cream sauce to add some Nutmeg also so that’s what I did (just don’t add a smidge to much).  Since my seasoning had black pepper in it, I left that out.

And then… I added Mushrooms.  I like them… so what! 🙂

Then top it off with the Parmesan Cheese so that it melts in there.

Toss in your pasta (that apparently didn’t get cooked all the way), add your chicken and you are ready to rock ‘n roll!

I meant to add a little of the starchy pasta water to thin out my sauce, but didn’t tell hubby and it got dumped out before I could.  Oh well… it was YUMMY!

I think we should rename this Chicken Fettuccine Gravy 🙂

Fettuccine Alfredo
Ingredients

1/2 lb Fettuccine
1 lb cooked chicken
1 1/4 cup chicken broth
4 tsp flour
4 oz cream cheese
3 tbsp Parmesan Cheese
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp pepper

Cook the pasta according to the directions on your package.

Cook up your chicken into either strips or bite sized pieces.  (we cheated b/c we grilled chicken the night before and I just used that.)

Place your chicken broth into a large pan.  Add 4 tsp flour.  Mix the flour in with a whisk, then add your cream cheese.  Whisk it around until it melts into the chicken broth/flour mixture.  Then add your seasonings.  plus add some Nutmeg since it is a cream sauce.  Then top it off with the Parmesan Cheese so that it melts in there.  Toss in your pasta, add your chicken and plate it up.  If your sauce is a little thick, thin it down with some of the starchy pasta water.