Chicken Campanelle Pasta With Roasted Garlic Cream
This pasta dish is superb; the roasted garlic cream creates an awesome garlic sensation that is rich, smooth and velvety on your tongue. You may substitute the chicken with lobster, scallops or shrimp for an elegant dinner party entrée.
Steps
Prepare the roasted garlic cream recipe.
Grill the chicken or roast the breasts and dice them into bite sized pieces.
Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium high heat.
Saut the onion , garlic , mushrooms and chicken.
When the onions are heated through , deglaze the pan with the white wine.
Add the chicken stock and cream and reduce by half its volume or until the sauce is thick enough to coat a spoon.
Sir in the roasted garlic cream and add the cooked pasta.
Add basil and season to taste with salt and pepper.
Pour into a large serving bowl and sprinkle with the parmesan cheese and more fresh basil.
Roasted garlic cream:.
Place the garlic in a saucepan and cover with olive oil.
Heat to medium high and cook for about ten minutes until the garlic is golden brown , but not burnt.
Remove from heat and strain the olive oil into an airtight container to use in future recipes.
Put the cooked garlic into a food processor or blender.
Heat the cream in a heavy saucepan .
Ingredients
olive oil, onion, garlic, grilled chicken breast, sun-dried tomatoes, shiitake mushroom, white wine, rich chicken broth, heavy cream, campanelle pasta, fresh basil, salt and pepper, parmesan cheese, salt, pepper