Chicken and Vegetable Fettuccine With Garlic Bread
This is a very simple, and very delicious meal that can easily be edited to include any vegetable you happen to have in your kitchen, or can find at the farmer's market. But my recipe includes a delicious trifecta of fresh baby spinach, cremini mushrooms, and red bell pepper.
Ingredients:
For Main Dish
Fettuccine (enough for four servings)
2 large chicken breasts (boneless and skinless/sliced into 1/4 in thick strips)
2 tbs Garlic Olive Oil OR Olive Oil and two minced cloves of garlic
1 large red bell pepper (cut into thin strips)
Three cups of baby spinach (it really cooks down)
4 good size cremini mushrooms (thinly sliced)
pepper
flour
For Garlic Bread
1 large round loaf of artisan bread (soft)
2 cloves of garlic (minced)
1/4 cup of butter (softened)
Drizzle Garlic Olive Oil (optional)
1) Prepare the Garlic Bread by cutting the round loaf of bread in half, leaving two, large round pieces
2) Saute Minced Garlic until lightly browned
3) Combine softened butter with garlic and drizzle of garlic olive oil, spread on exposed sides of bread, set aside
4) Preheat Oven ton 450 degrees F
5) Start making the fettuccine
6) Combine chicken strips with pepper, and lightly coat with flour
7) Put Garlic Bread in the center of the oven, it is done when the butter is all melted and the top is golden and the edges crispy brown
8) Heat Garlic Olive Oil in a large frying pan, when it is heated, add chicken. When the outside of the chicken is browned, add peppers and mushrooms
9) Remove fettuccine and drain when it is done, but do not rinse. Drizzle with olive oil until lightly coated, add cracked black pepper to taste and set aside
10) Add the baby spinach on top of the chicken and vegetables when chicken is thoroughly cooked, do not stir it in. Cover the pan and let the spinach wilt, gently. The vegetables are done when the spinach is wilted (2-3 mins)
11) Combine the chicken and vegetable mixture with the fettuccine, stir and serve with the Garlic bread.
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