

Pour the chicken and sauce over the hot pasta and toss. Add dry pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente drain, transfer to a bowl. Meanwhile, preheat your oven to 350 degrees and bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add the cream and bring to a boil stirring.Take off heat and add the bacon, chicken and mushroom to the sauce and set aside. Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, for about 10 minutes or until the tomatoes are tender. Remove from pan and set aside.Īdd the roasted garlic, sundried tomatoes and chicken broth to the hot skillet. Once the chicken is cooked, add the sliced mushrooms and saute until browned. Add the chicken to the skillet and saute until lightly browned. Season the cut up chicken with salt and pepper. In a large skillet over high heat, brown the diced bacon. Inspired by Macaroni Grill, adapted from Recipezaar


I’m definitely making this again and again because it was the hit of the Pasta Party dinner! Lastly, I baked the pasta dish in the oven with a generous topping of Parmesan cheese for some texture on the top and to help the pasta soak up all the flavors of the roasted garlic cream sauce. Who wants to clean more cookware than needed anyway? Besides, using the same skillet allowed me to use every bit of flavor. Another change to the original recipe I used was making the sauce in one pan versus two. I also decreased the amount of chicken from the original recipe since I wanted to cut it up and toss it with the pasta rather than serve a whole breast per person. Rather than using fresh minced garlic, I wanted a subtle sweetness and used roasted garlic instead. Macaroni Grill’s Pasta Milano dish consists of “roasted chicken, sun-dried tomatoes, fresh mushrooms and imported farfalle pasta in a roasted garlic cream sauce.” It sounds pretty approachable if you wanted to make it at home, right? Well, fortunately I found a recipe online to use as a guide. To my surprise, my guests loved my Pasta Milano and even my husband was asking me to make it again the next day!… In an effort to recreate that dish for my dinner, I tweaked the recipe to my tastes and hoped for the best. When looking through some restaurant menus for inspiration, I remembered trying Macaroni Grill’s Pasta Milano dish awhile ago. If there’s a dish that recently surprised me, it’s this one! For my recent Pasta Party dinner, I wanted to include a pasta dish that had a cream sauce other than alfredo.
