Contributed by: Chef Dino Ferraro, Capone’s Italian Cucina – Huntington Beach
Penne Con Petit Pollo
Penne pasta with chicken tenders, sliced red onions, sliced mushrooms, diced tomatoes, fresh rosemary and balsamic cream sauce.
Ingredients:
4 oz Olive oil
2 oz Garlic – fresh, chopped
10 oz Chicken tender – 1” cut
8 oz Red onion – sliced
4 oz Roma tomato – diced
8 oz Mushroom – sliced
2 oz Rosemary – fresh
3 oz Balsamic vinegar
4 oz Pasta water
10 oz Manufacturing cream
Salt and pepper to taste
16 oz Penne pasta or rigatoni
4 oz Parmegiano cheese – grated
Directions:
- In sauté pan start with olive oil and garlic
- Add the chicken and sauté
- Add the mushrooms, red onions and rosemary, sauté for 3 minutes
- Add the balsamic vinegar, sauté for 1 minute
- Add the cream and parmigiana cheese, stir slowly until the cream has thickened
- Boil the water
- Add salt and 2 oz of olive oil
- Cook the pasta aldente
- Drain the pasta water when cooked and then add to the cream sauce and toss
- Add the diced tomato at this point so tomatoes won’t change the color of the sauce
- Toss and transfer to the serving plate
- Garnish with aged balsamic and fresh rosemary
- Buon appetito