Recipe: Pasta with Chicken and Broccoli in Lemon-Garlic Sauce

This isn’t one for the freezer (at least, we didn’t try it out as a freezer meal), but if you’re looking for some epic dinner time deliciousness, I highly recommend this. This was one of our accidental meals, something we just threw together at the last minute because it sounded good together. Lucky us! It’s amazing. I could seriously eat this for days.

Ingredients

• 1 package bow tie pasta
• 4 tbsp. butter
• 4 cloves garlic minced
• Zest of 1 lemon
• 1 c. heavy cream
• 1 c. grated parmesan
• 2 tbsp. lemon juice
• salt and pepper (to taste)
• 1/2 lb. chicken breast fillets, cut into 1-inch cubes (bite-sized)
• 1 large head broccoli, broken down

Directions

1. Cook pasta in pot of boiling salt water.
2. Steam broccoli in a separate pan.
3. In a saucepan, melt butter, then saute garlic and lemon zest.
4. Add cream, and season with salt and pepper.
5. Once heated, add chicken. Stir regularly until chicken is cooked through.
6. Once chicken is finished, stir in lemon juice and parmesan.
7. Once parmesan is melted, stir in broccoli.
8. Once pasta is done, drain and then stir into chicken, broccoli and sauce mixture.
9. Serve.