Fettuccine pasta with chicken in cream sauce

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make fettuccine pasta with chicken in cream sauce? Prepare the ingredients. Clean the chicken from all excess. Wash and dry it. Wash and dry the greens and peel the onion and garlic from the husk. To speed up the cooking process, immediately put a pot of water on the fire - for cooking pasta and a frying pan - for making sauce.

2. Step 2:

   

   Cut the chicken fillet into small pieces. Grate the cheese on a fine or medium grater.

3. Step 3:

   

   Heat a little olive oil in a hot frying pan (if there is none, take any other vegetable oil) and quickly fry the pieces of meat from all sides, stirring them with a spatula.

4. Step 4:

   

   While the chicken fillet is fried, finely chop onions, bacon (or balyk) and a clove of garlic.

5. Step 5:

   

   Transfer the finished chicken fillet to a plate. Pour a small amount of vegetable oil into the pan again and fry the bacon in it for 1 minute. Then add the chopped onion to it. Stir and fry everything together for a few minutes, stirring.

6. Step 6:

   

   Return the chicken fillet to the pan with onions.

7. Step 7:

   

   Add wheat flour to the meat, as well as a pinch of salt and pepper. Mix it up.

8. Step 8:

   

   Pour the cream into the pan.

10. Step 9:

    

    And over low heat, stirring from time to time, boil the sauce until thickened.

11. Step 10:

    

    At the very end, add a clove of garlic and a handful of grated hard cheese to the sauce (about half of the total amount). Warm up the sauce for a few more minutes so that the cheese melts completely. At the very end, taste the sauce and, if necessary, season it with more salt and pepper.

12. Step 11:

    

    At the same time with the cream sauce, prepare the pasta. In a saucepan, bring 3 liters of water to a boil, add salt and dip the fettuccine into the water. Cook the pasta until al dente (inside the pasta should remain slightly firm). In order not to digest the pasta, follow the instructions on the package.

13. Step 12:

    

    Put the finished pasta on a sieve, lightly sprinkle with olive oil and mix. By the way, be sure to save some of the water in which the pasta was cooked (about 250 g), we will need it to dilute our sauce a little.

14. Step 13:

    

    Transfer the cooked al dente pasta to the pan in the ready cream sauce with chicken.

15. Step 14:

    

    And mix. If the sauce is thick, add a little water in which the pasta was cooked, and mix everything thoroughly. Warm the pasta in the sauce for 2 minutes and serve immediately.

16. Step 15:

    

    Fettuccine pasta with chicken in cream sauce is ready. Sprinkle it on top with grated cheese (half of which we put aside) and fresh basil leaves. Enjoy your meal!