Recipe: Perfect Chicken and Penne bake

Chicken and Penne bake. You can easily use any kind of pasta when making chicken Alfredo, but penne and fettuccine are the most common. Chunks of chicken in a creamy tomato sauce with basil and fresh spinach are baked with multi-grain penne pasta and topped with cheese. Today's recipe is a cheesy baked pasta that I found over at Our Best Bites.

Change the flavors in this baked pasta recipe by choosing different versions of the chicken sausage. This was a great weeknight meal. Baked Penne with Chicken and Sun-Dried Tomatoes. You can have Chicken and Penne bake using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chicken and Penne bake

1. Prepare of chicken breast.
2. It's of yellow pepper.
3. You need of sweet onion.
4. It's of garlic.
5. You need of Penne.
6. It's of spagetti sauce.
7. You need of shredded chedder cheese.
8. You need of swiss cheese.
9. You need of provolone cheese.
10. You need of red onion.

A family favorite, this recipe makes one baking dish for now and one to freeze for a ready-made dinner when you're pressed for time. Alright so, despite weather woes, it's asparagus season! What better than to roast them and throw them into a creamy penne casserole bake? This could totally be a vegetarian dish but I figured Jason would appreciate a bit of protein so I threw in some cubed chicken breasts but you can certainly omit it.

Chicken and Penne bake instructions

1. preheat oven to 350.
2. boil penne noodles untill done.
3. chop chicken breast into cubes.
4. cook chicken and use season of your choice.
5. saute all peppers and onion with garlic untill slightly soft.
6. drain pasta and add spagetti sauce.
7. add chicken to penne and simmer for five minutes.
8. In a deep dish layer your mixture with tha chesse.
9. place in your oven for 15 min..
10. Enjoy with a good side salad.

Each baking dish serves four; bake one tonight, and freeze the other for a ready-made dinner later on. When ready to cook, bake it straight from the In a large nonstick skillet, heat oil over medium-high. On each serving I used a low sodium seasoning and this is now one of my favorite dishes! Granted, any baked pasta dish always brings me back to my college days when my roommates and I basically lived on pasta bakes night after night after glorious night. The recipe book also included a variation for Creamy Baked Penne and Chicken with Artichokes, Tarragon, and Lemon.