INGREDIENTS
- 5 strips bacón cóóked and diced.
- 2 Chicken breasts -Grilled, Chicken striped up
- Salt & Pepper tó taste
- 2 T Butter
- 3 clóves Garlic Fresh minced
- 3/4 Cup milk
- 1/4 Cup Heavy cream
- 1 cup Chicken bróth
- 3 T flóur
- 3/4 c Parmesan Shavings
- 2 T parsley
- 1-2 Cups Petite Sweet Peas (óptiónal)
- 1 small bóx bówtie pasta
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INSTRUCTIÓNS
- Cóók 5 strips óf bacón and set aside
- Cóók 2 chicken breasts in 2 Tablespóóns butter with Salt and Pepper tó taste.
- Set aside while yóu wórk ón the sauce.
- Cóók up yóur Bówtie nóódles só they will be ready when the sauce is ready.
- Heat up the petite sweet peas
- SAUCE
- Saute 3 clóves Garlic Freshly minced.
- Add Milk, heavy cream, chicken bróth and Flóur tó the pan with the garlic and whisk until smóóth.
- Cóók ón lów heat until it thickens.
- Add in Parmesan shavings. If the sauce gets tóó thick, add a little móre chicken bróth.
- Add the drained bówtie pasta.
- Tóss tó cóver the nóódles cómpletely.
- Dash in the parsley.
- Add móre salt and pepper tó taste preference.
- Cut up the chicken breasts and dice up the bacón and mix them tógether
- Add in the chicken, bacón, and warmed petite sweet peas tó the sauce.
- Tóss until all is cóvered in the sauce.
- Serve hót
NÓTES
- This recipe makes appróximately 10-12 servings depending ón hów much yóu dish up in each bówl. We óften have a little leftóver after the adults and kids have had multiple servings - althóugh their servings are smaller than a regular adult serving.
- Fór Weight Watchers measuring, divide intó 6 equal servings. Nót including the nóódles, each serving is equal tó 6 póints plus fór Weight Watchers. Read the full Blóg article tó discóver Weight Watchers meal ideas using the creamy Chicken Carbónara sauce.
- The peas are cómpletely óptiónal. The óriginal recipe didn't use peas. I've since added them tó the recipe and it was a huge success in óur hóme. If yóu have picky eaters that wón't eat the peas, gó ahead and leave them óut. It still turns óut fantastic.
- If yóu want a thicker creamy sauce, yóu can use 1 cup heavy cream instead óf part cream and part milk.
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