Strain the pasta and broccoli in a colander, and run cold water over to prevent the broccoli from over cooking. These skinny broccoli chicken fettuccine with cauliflower Alfredo sauce are the perfect compromise between nutritious + feel-good! A lighter version of your favorite fettuccine Alfredo pasta, using a super creamy and delicious cauliflower.

Ingredients of Skinny Chicken Alfredo Pasta with Broccoli

  1. Prepare of Chicken & Pasta.
  2. Prepare 16 oz of fresh spinach pasta.
  3. It's 2 of cooked chicken breasts, cubed.
  4. You need 2 cup of Broccoli florets.
  5. Prepare 1 of Cauliflower Alfredo Sauce.
  6. Prepare of salt & pepper.
  7. You need of Cauliflower Alfredo Sauce.
  8. Prepare 1 medium of head of cauliflower, cut into florets.
  9. You need 1/2 cup of water.
  10. It's 1 cup of milk.
  11. Prepare 1/2 cup of grated parmesan cheese.
  12. It's 1 tsp of dried parsley.
  13. It's pinch of nutmeg.
  14. It's 1/4 tsp of black pepper.
  15. You need 3 oz of cream cheese.

Skinny Chicken Alfredo Pasta with Broccoli step by step

  1. Make Cauliflower Alfredo Sauce, put into a large saucepan over low heat to keep warm. https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/448800-cauliflower-alfredo-sauce.
  2. Bring a large pot of water to a boil, add broccoli florets. Cover and cook for 2-3 minutes until they turn bright green - scoop florets out of water and place in a bowl of ice water to shock the broccoli and stop the cooking process..
  3. Add fresh spinach pasta to the same boiling water you added broccoli too. Cook pasta for 2-3 minutes - or whatever the package instruction say..
  4. Remove pasta from water and place in large saucepan with cauliflower alfredo sauce, add broccoli and chicken to the saucepan as well. Gently toss with tongs till everything is coated with the alfredo sauce..
  5. Serve..

Turn off the heat, stir in broccoli and cooked chicken then add pasta to the skillet. If mixture is too thick, you can add some of the reserved. Skinny Chicken Alfredo Pasta made with garlic and Parmesan cheese that's creamy, delicious and tastes just like the original with all the flavors of your Add broccoli or spinach to bulk up the recipe. How to make Alfredo Sauce: Alfredo sauce has a béchamel sauce base with garlic and Parmesan. "Pasta doesn't make you fat…how much pasta you eat makes you fat" wonderfully said by Giada De Laurentiis. And really that can be said about any food out there that people are so afraid to eat!

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