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Bacon, Mushroom, Chicken Pasta

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Category: Dinner Party, Healthy Recipes, Pasta, Chicken, Mashrooms

 Ingredients List

  • 1 box rigatoni pasta or similar
  • 2-3 pieces of bacon, chopped
  • 1/2 yellow onion finely diced
  • about 3 tablespoons garlic, minced
  • 1 chicken bouillon cube
  • 1 cup half and half
  • 1 cup ricotta cheese
  • 1 package fresh sliced baby bella mushrooms (about 4 cups)
  • 2 cups diced cooked chicken (I used leftover rotisserie chicken)
  • 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
  • salt, pepper, dried thyme, dried italian herbs
  • *optional ”“ sliced green onion to garnish

 Directions

1. Get out a large skillet/saute pan and fry your bacon bits and render as much fat as possible from them

2. Scoop out the bacon pieces onto a paper towel to drain, and add your chopped onion and garlic to the bacon fat

3. While those are sweating, get a pot of salted water ready to boil for your pasta

4. Add your pasta to the boiling water and cook per box instructions
When the onions and garlic have softened, add in your mushrooms and season with thyme and salt and pepper

5. When mushrooms have softened a bit add your ricotta cheese, half and half, the bouillon cube- stir everything together

6. If sauce seems to thick ladle in some of the pastas cooking water to thin it out a bit before draining the pasta

7. Add cooked pasta, chicken, and bacon bits to the sauce and toss together parmesan and italian herbs

8. Garnish with something fresh and green like spring onions or fresh parsley and serve hot.

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