Easy Chicken Tetrazzini
"This is a recipe that utilizes rotisserie chicken from the grocery store deli, jars of prepared Alfredo sauce, canned mushrooms, and jarred chopped garlic. I used the classic Alfredo sauce so that I could add my own sauteed garlic and onion. It was quick and easy to prepare and outstanding in flavor. This recipe is a great template; add or subtract ingredients to your heart's desire. If you are not a purist cook, this is a keeper. If desired, add a cup or so of frozen peas or broccoli to the sauce prior to mixing with the pasta.
Garlic bread and a tossed salad rounded out this meal that bowled my family over. I wouldn't hesitate to serve this to company."
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
6-8
ingredients
- 8 ounces vermicelli, broken in half
- 2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons margarine
- 1 onion, small, diced
- 2 celery, large stalks, diced
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped (or from a jar)
- 8 ounces mushrooms, sliced, canned (stems and pieces are fine)
- 2 (16 ounce) jars alfredo sauce, your favorite brand and flavor blend
- black pepper, fresh ground, to taste
- cayenne pepper, ground, to taste
- 2 1⁄2 cups chicken, cooked, cut in bite-size pieces
- 4 tablespoons parmesan cheese, grated
directions
- Prepare pasta per package directions and drain. Set aside.
- Saute onion and celery in melted butter until soft.
- Add mushrooms and garlic and continue to saute for a few minutes.
- Add chicken and sautee with mushrooms and garlic for 2 minutes.
- Stir in the 2 jars of alfredo sauce, heat through.
- Add ground black pepper and cayenne to taste, mix well.
- Place cooked and drained pasta in a 9x13x2 baking dish that has been sprayed with nonstick cooking spray.
- Pour alfredo mixture over pasta.
- Using 2 forks, blend the pasta and alfredo mixture well.
- Sprinkle Parmesan cheese over casserole.
- Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes or until heated and cheese is melted.
- Let dish set for 10 minutes before serving.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Happy Hippie
Spring Valley, California
I live in beautiful San Diego where there's never nothin to do. We almost never have days where you can't get outdoors. For fun I love to read, cook, take road trips with my grandson, whom I raise. Take long walks along the beach, bays and lakes. My live in grandson is 12 and the light of my life. I've been teaching him to fish, or should I say I'm exposing him to lake fishing, the people we meet along the way are teaching him while I read and watch. He's dying to go ocean fishing, that one makes me a bit more nervous, but we'll start that soon, probably from piers to start. Nick's only one of my grandchildren though, I have a total of 13, three live in Kansas, the land of Oz. The last time I visited them, it was Christmas time and when I stepped off the plane, the cold air took my breath away and standing there waiting for me in a short-sleeved T-shirt, was my son-in-law. Needless, to say, I spent many days there staying indoors praying for the day I could get back to sunny California -- I never had to endure snow the whole time, thank God! Twenty degrees daily was way out of my comfort zone by a very large margin. There truly is no place like home. I have 8 other grandchildren that are fortunate enought to live in San Diego too. We spend weekends doing things together such as taking in the zoo, wild animal park, Sea World, Knotts Soak City water park (summer), museums, fishing, picknicking and just hanging out. They all love to help grandma cook in the kitchen. I have many cookbooks and can read them like I'd read a novel. My passions are my family, my two boston terriers, Tuffy and Oreo, and gardening, cooking and reading -- oh yeah, I'm totally addicted to Zaar. I don't really have many pet peeves, but a biggie is mean, obnoxious people and those who think they know it all, and liars, I can pick out a deceitful person it an instant. If you can't trust someone, then nothings worth salvaging in the relationship. I hate those who disrespect the environment (no I'm not a tree hugger) but I do hate to see people litter and fail to do simple things such as picking up after themselves in the outdoors such as parks and beaches, and how easy is it to recycle? It's really not too difficult to make an impact on the environment if everybody takes responsibility for their "trash."
