Chicken Florentine Pasta, an easy creamy chicken and pasta dinner recipe with bowtie pasta coated in lightened-up fresh spinach Florentine Sauce and black pepper chicken. Needs only 15 minutes of prep. Perfect for weeknights.
My version of Florentine Sauce is special. It creamy yet lite with delicious flavor of star-ingredient - spinach. Just three things make all the difference:
The resulting sauce is perfect to coat pasta and has amazing flavor of spinach. Every bite just melts in mouth.
I highly recommend trying the recipe. Needs only 15 minutes of prep. Cut the dinner time in half by making ahead sauce up-to a week in advance. Cook chicken in advance or use rotisserie/grilled chicken. On weeknights, cook fresh bowtie pasta, heat sauce, add chicken. Wallah! Dinner is ready to devour!
I words of Ina Garten, "How easy was that?!"
So, let's make some Chicken Florentine Pasta tonight!
CREAMY CHICKEN FLORENTINE SAUCE
Florentine (in food context) means food served on bed of spinach. The signature Florentine Spinach Sauce was my inspiration to make this creamy chicken Florentine Pasta. Like I mentioned, to lighten-up the sauce, I replaced the heavy cream in sauce with half and half i.e. part heavy cream and part milk. This also makes sauce right consistency to work with pasta.
For lite homey summer dinner flavor, I flavored the sauce with sun-dried tomatoes, herbs and chicken stock. A subtle tang of sun-dried tomatoes helps cut the richness and make sauce extra-special. You will love the flavors.
Tip: If you don't have sun-dried tomatoes, use zest of a lemon. You can also fold in fresh cherry tomatoes in the sauce.
FROZEN VS FRESH SPINACH?
Any day, I will choose fresh spinach over frozen. Simply because I always have fresh spinach in refrigerator as we love using it as base for summer salads.
Specially for Florentine sauce, fresh spinach is better than frozen. Frozen thawed spinach still holds lot of water and is not that easy to squeeze. No mater what, it will retain some water. This water can dilute the sauce or bland the flavor for sure. In Florentine sauce, spinach is the star. So, to control the amount of liquid in sauce, I used fresh spinach. I cook fresh spinach with pinch of salt and a tsp oil in skillet until it is wilted. Then let it drain while I prepare the rest of sauce. This helps to make much silky and never-watery.
Let me summarize why should you try this Chicken Pasta tonight!
MORE CHICKEN AND PASTA DINNER RECIPES:
If your family is Chicken and Pasta dinner fan like ours? I have few more delicious recipes to try:
Try something different for dinner tonight. I have made nostalgic buffet-favorite Chicken Florentine easy to prepare at home as complete meal. Pasta with flavorful saucy Chicken Florentine. Drop a message and share with me your favorite Chicken and Pasta Dinner?
Happy Cooking!
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Serving Size: 1 Servings", (682g) | ||
Recipe Makes: 2 Servings", | ||
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Calories: 1143 | ||
Calories from Fat: 585 (51%) | ||
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Amt Per Serving | % DV | |
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Total Fat 65g | 87 % | |
Saturated Fat 25.5g | 127 % | |
Monounsaturated Fat 24.3g | ||
Polyunsanturated Fat 10g | ||
Cholesterol 335.7mg | 103 % | |
Sodium 7432.6mg | 256 % | |
Potassium 1271.6mg | 33 % | |
Total Carbohydrate 74.8g | 22 % | |
Dietary Fiber 1.7g | 7 % | |
Sugars, other 73.1g | ||
Protein 63.2g | 90 % | |
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Calories per serving: 1143
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