Creamy Italian Chicken Pasta recipe, packed with flavor from spinach, garlic, and sun dried tomatoes, your family will gobble this easy dinner right up!
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Why this Recipe is best
Much like my Tuscan Garlic Chicken Pasta recipe, you’ll have tender chicken with a delicious, creamy tuscan sauce!
- Restaurant quality, made at home!
- Tender flavorful chicken
- Creamy sauce
- Made in a skillet for easy clean up!
Prep the Chicken
Place raw chicken breast into a bowl and pour milk and lemon juice over the top. Cover and refrigerate for 2-4 hours. You can also do this in the morning, so that it’s ready at dinner time!
PRO TIP: Did you know that soaking the chicken in milk and lemon helps it become more tender for cooking?
Step by Step Instructions
The crust.
When ready to cook, create your Italian chicken crust. In a pie plate, or shallow dish, combine flour, salt, pepper, Italian seasoning, and powdered sugar.
Drain chicken from milk marinade and dip into the flour, coating evenly.
Heat a large skillet with olive oil over medium high heat. Place chicken strips in hot skillet for about 3 minutes on each side. Remove and place onto a foil lined baking sheet.
Bake the chicken.
Bake chicken in 350 degree oven for about 18-20 minutes.
PRO TIP: If you smash your chicken with a meat tenderizer before dipping in coating, this helps it become the same thickness throughout, resulting in more even cooking.
Make the pasta and sauce.
PRO TIP: Skip the additional olive oil and use the oil from the sun dried tomatoes instead. Adds a rich flavor to the sauce!
Sprinkle 1 Tablespoon cornstarch over the tomatoes, and mix thoroughly.
Add chicken broth, whisk until combined. Cook for about 5 minutes.
In a small bowl, mix remaining cornstarch with milk and whisk. Add to the broth and continue whisking while adding in the cream, spinach, salt, and pepper.
Turn heat to low and simmer until sauce thickens and spinach wilts. Add in parmesan cheese.
Stir and heat on low until chicken and noodles are done.
Serve in a large bowl and enjoy.
Serving Suggestions
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Italian Chicken
Ingredients
For the chicken:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1 Tablespoon powdered sugar
- 6 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 3 Tablespoon olive oil
For the sauce:
- 2 Tablespoon olive oil
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- ¼ cup sun dried tomatoes in oil drained and finely diced
- 3 Tablespoon cornstarch divided
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 3 cups fresh spinach roughly chopped
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper don’t skimp on this
- 1 cup parmesan cheese grated
- 1 box linguine noodles 16oz
Instructions
- Place raw chicken breast into a bowl and pour milk and lemon juice over the top. Cover and refrigerate for 2-4 hours. You can also do this in the morning, so that it’s ready at dinner time!
- When ready to cook, create your chicken crust. In a pie plate, or shallow dish, combine flour, salt, pepper, Italian seasoning, and powdered sugar.
- Drain chicken from milk marinade and dip into the flour, coating evenly.
- Heat a large skillet with olive oil over medium high heat. Place chicken strips in hot skillet for about 3 minutes on each side. Remove and place onto a foil lined baking sheet.
- Bake chicken in 350 degree oven for about 18-20 minutes.
- While the chicken bakes, cook your linguine (or favorite pasta) according to package.
- To make the sauce, using the same skillet as the chicken, add additional olive oil, scraping the bits from the pan. Over medium heat, add garlic and sun dried tomatoes to the pan, heat for several minutes.
- Sprinkle 1 Tbsp cornstarch over the tomatoes, and mix thoroughly.
- Add chicken broth, whisk until combined. Cook for about 5 minutes.
- In a small bowl, mix remaining cornstarch with milk and whisk. Add to the broth and continue whisking while adding in the cream, spinach, salt, and pepper.
- Turn heat to low and simmer until sauce thickens and spinach wilts. Add in parmesan cheese.
- Stir and heat on low until chicken and noodles are done.
- Serve in a large bowl and enjoy.
Notes
- If you smash your chicken with a meat tenderizer before dipping in coating, this helps it become the same thickness throughout, resulting in more even cooking.
- Skip the additional olive oil and use the oil from the sun dried tomatoes instead. Adds a rich flavor to the sauce!
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Creamy Italian Chicken Pasta recipe, packed with flavor from spinach, garlic, and sun dried tomatoes, your family will gobble this easy dinner right up!
This is such a delicious and easy meal! My family loved it!
The best italian flavors in this! Loved it!
This is such a great way for us to change up our chicken dinner routine. Love how easy it is to make.
What a great recipe for busy weeknights! Adding this to my dinner line up for the week! Looks amazing!
I’ve made this recipe 3 times. It is absolutely delicious and family favorite! It is an doable recipe for beginners, but it definitely takes longer than 30 minutes. I called in kid and husband reinforcements to help make the pasta and stir the sauce while I added ingredients, etc. That helped cut down on time as well.
I’m so glad that I found this because it’s great for back to school weeknights! Thank you!
This looks so delicious 🙂 I never thought to soak chicken in milk and lemon juice before! The lemon doesn’t curdle the milk? Or maybe it doesn’t matter that it does – kind of like adding vinegar to the milk to sour it for pancakes.
Yep, doesn’t matter! It makes delicious, moist and tender chicken 🙂
I think I found dinner for tonight! 😉
Oh this has to be dinner one night this week. Sounds amazing.
This sounds amazing, need to make it for dinner this week!
Going to make this again for supper tonight! Was a huge hit the last time I made it.
This chicken dish sounds SO good! I’m always anxious to find new chicken recipes that I can’t live without and this one certainly looks like a keeper. Oh, and I absolutely love your pro tips!
Looks yummy!!!
I can see why you wanted to slurp up that sauce – must’ve been super rich and yummy!
Visiting from ASF 🙂
Ok you are making it hard to decide what I want more! 🙂
Thanks for linking up!