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Chicken alfredo
Also known as fettuccine alfredo · pollo alfredo · chicken fettuccine alfredo · alfredo pasta
Fettuccine cloaked in a cream-and-parmesan sauce with grilled chicken slices. Silky, rich, unapologetically heavy.
Typical serving
720 kcal
usually 560–910 kcal
 Protein | 34 g |
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 Carbs | 65 g |
 Fat | 36 g |
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Before you start
- the sauce happens in the pan the pasta lands in — have everything grated and to hand before it drains
Ingredients
Serves 2 · dimmer marks are storecupboard
- 150gdried fettuccine
- 250gchicken breast
- 30gbutter
- 70mlcream
- 45gparmesan — grated fine on the small holes — coarse shreds sit in the sauce as lumps
- 1garlic clove
- 1 handfulflat parsley
- to tasteblack pepper
Method
6 steps
chop · 4mChicken sliced across into strips about a centimetre thick, so they cook evenly rather than drying at the thin end.
fry · 12mSalted and fried in half the butter over a good heat until golden, then given a couple of minutes more on a lower flame with the garlic. Chicken goes right through — cut the thickest strip and there should be no pink at all and the juices should run clear.
boil · 9mFettuccine in well-salted water, drained a minute early, a mug of the water kept back.
fold · 4mChicken out, the rest of the butter and the cream into the pan and warmed through only — then the pan taken OFF the heat before the parmesan goes in. Cheese beaten into a boiling pan splits into strings and a slick of oil, and no amount of stirring gathers it back.
- fold · 2m
Pasta and a splash of its water tossed through until the sauce coats rather than pools, chicken folded back in.
finish · 1mA great deal of pepper, parsley, and more parmesan. It thickens fast on the plate, so it goes out the moment it is done.
Worth knowing
Rome’s original was just butter and parmesan tossed with hot pasta — the cream and the chicken are the American memory of it.
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