Quick Weeknight Chicken Penne Alfredo {Skinnier, Too!}

Two words fast & flavorful. Which brand this Chicken Penne Alfredo, with fresh carrots together with broccoli, precisely perfect for a quick weeknight meal. Another bonus? It's a skinnier version of Alfredo, too!

It seems I'm ever running ragged alongside trying to piece of employment along upward alongside our family's schedule. Add inward squeezing inward roughly extra fun equally nosotros nigh the terminate of summer, together with starting to instruct ready for back-to-school, together with I've needed to rely on quick together with tardily recipes lately {or accept out!} to instruct meals on the table. Fortunately, this Chicken Penne Alfredo is ready inward a flash, together with definitely qualifies inward the quick together with tardily category.

When it comes to dealing alongside all the craziness of life, I'm guilty of turning to grabbing a lot of take-out when we're crazy-busy. Because that for certain makes it tardily to instruct a repast on the tabular array for the family. But yous know what? ... H5N1 mortal tin alone 'take' hence much take-out! {ha, ha ... pun totally intended}.

So I'm glad to conduct maintain this quick together with tardily Chicken Penne Alfredo dish inward my recipe box. Loaded alongside fresh broccoli together with babe carrots coated inward a creamy sauce, two words depict this tasty dish fast & flavorful. Which brand this just perfect for a quick weeknight meal.

Another bonus? It's a skinnier version of Alfredo, too!

What makes this dish hence quick together with easy, yous ask?

Well, to commencement with, yous gear upward the pasta, carrots {packaged babe carrots that are all ready to go}, together with broccoli florets all inward 1 pot at the same fourth dimension ... inward the pasta cooking water. Score! How quick together with tardily is that??

If yous want, yous tin fifty-fifty purchase the packaged pre-cut broccoli florets, saving the stride of cutting upward the caput of broccoli. Yes, I know it's non super tough to cutting upward a caput of broccoli. But hey, if you're totally pressed for fourth dimension together with looking to relieve every minute possible, together with hence this is 1 or 2 to a greater extent than moments that tin last saved. Packaged pre-cut fresh broccoli florets is for certain a shortcut I accept total wages of.

And if yous exercise precooked rotisserie, leftover, or packaged chicken instead of sauteing boneless chicken, yous tin cutting out fifty-fifty to a greater extent than time!

The Alfredo sauce inward this dish is super quick together with easy, besides taking wages of low-cal flavored cream cheese spread {we similar chive-flavored the best} together with low-fat milk to brand a skinnier, lower fat, fast together with tardily version of Alfredo sauce.

Once the pasta, broccoli, together with carrots are cooked together with tossed alongside cooked chicken, only stir a tub of low-cal cream cheese spread, roughly milk, together with grated Parmesan into the pot to shape the creamy sauce.

Yes, making this delicious together with satisfying dinner dish is genuinely that simple.

Which makes it precisely perfect for a weeknight. Or for those crazy-busy times inward life nosotros all seem to conduct maintain from fourth dimension to time.

Here's to hoping I instruct through this crazy-busy time! Quick Chicken Penne Alfredo may precisely last on the card quite a chip for a land to help.

Quick Weeknight Chicken Penne Alfredo
Source: Adapted from Better Homes together with Gardens Eat Well Lose Weight magazine

(Printable recipe)
Ingredients

1 1/2 c. dry penne pasta {I exercise whole wheat}
2 c. baby carrots {from 'the package' already peeled & ready}
3 c. fresh broccoli florets
1 lb. boneless chicken breasts OR nigh 2 1/2 c. chopped fully-cooked chicken
1 (8 oz.) tub low-cal chive-flavored or garden vegetable-flavored cream cheese spread
1/2 c. 2% or skim milk
1/3 c. shredded Parmesan cheese
1/4 tsp. ground dark pepper
1/4 tsp. salt
2 T. olive or canola oil

Directions

In a large pot, gear upward pasta together with carrots inward salted H2O according to pasta bundle directions. When half-dozen minutes of pasta cooking fourth dimension remain, add together broccoli florets to the pot. Drain pasta together with vegetables; provide to the pot.
While the pasta together with vegetables cook, cutting chicken into bite-sized pieces together with flavor alongside a sprinkling of tabular array salt together with pepper. Heat stone oil inward a saute pan over medium-high heat. Add chicken together with saute until cooked through.
Stir cream cheese, milk, Parmesan, salt, pepper, together with cooked chicken into the pasta mixture. Stir over depression oestrus until the cream cheese is melted.
If desired, sprinkle private servings alongside additional Parmesan.

Enjoy!

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