Baked Penne With Chicken Broccoli and Three Cheeses Recipe
Ingredients
Skinned and boned cooked chicken , cut it into large pieces (3c), frozen broccoli florets (2c), penne rigate or similar pasta (8 ounces), salt and pepper (to taste), low sodium chicken broth (1c), freshly grated parmesan cheese (1/2c), shredded mozzarella cheese (1 1/2c), milk (1c), all purpose flour (2tbsp), unsalted butter (2tbsp), crumbled blue cheese (1/2c).
Method of preparation:-
Take a saucepan, place it over low heat. Melt butter in it and fry flour in butter until it gets blended. Then slowly add broth and milk in it and cook it by stirring regularly for about 8 minutes until the mixture gets smooth. Then mix ¼ cup of parmesan and 1 cup of mozzarella cheese in it and then take off the pan from heat. Now cook pasta in a pot according to the instructions on package of pasta. Cook the pasta for about 8 to 10 minutes until it gets soft. Then add broccoli in pot and cook it for about 2 minutes more. Heat the oven to 350 degrees F. take a baking dish of 2 quarter, mix pasta and broccoli, cheese sauce and chicken in it. Place the crumbled blue cheese on the top and tuck it into the pasta. Then sprinkle the left over parmesan and mozzarella cheese over it. Place the dish in oven and bake it for about 25 minutes until the top mixture gets bubbly and top changes to golden in color. Take the dish out from oven and keep it to cool for about 10 minutes and then serve it.
Number of servings – 4
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