Tasty Tuesday

For this Tasty Tuesday I chose to make chicken Alfredo. I loooove chicken Alfredo! Usually I can just buy a can of sauce and it's good, but this time I wanted to make the sauce from scratch. The creamier the sauce the better in my mind. I ended up using a recipe from my mother in law. 

It calls for:

1/2 cup of butter

1- 8ounce package of cream cheese

2 teaspoons of garlic powder

1 teaspoon of fresh parsley

2 cups of milk

6 ounces of Parmesan cheese, doesn't need to be right at 6 it can be a little more;)

1/8 teaspoon of black pepper 

These are some easy ingredients and the cream cheese makes it creamy! 

First off you have to melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat after that add the cream cheese and garlic powder until smooth. This takes awhile and isn't very easy at first with the cream cheese, but keep working with it and it seems to become soft and somewhat smooth. Once you add the milk, which is the next step, it starts to get more smooth and look like a sauce. I have found that adding a little of milk at a time made it easier. After adding all the milk then you can add the Parmesan cheese and pepper. That's all the ingredients now you keep it on heat until you reach the desired consistency. Like I said earlier I like it creamy so I keep it on the heat for awhile longer. If you happen to get it too thick for your liking then you can add more milk. 

Here's a picture of my sauce when it was all together:

Doesn't it look creamy! Don't mind my 70's green stove.

Now that's just the sauce I like to put chicken and sometimes even broccoli with it. For adding chicken I take about a pound of chicken cut it up into little pieces. Heat about 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a pan and throw the chicken in. I usually start that the same time as the sauce so they are done at the same time.

Here's a pic of the chicken after it was cooked in the olive oil. I like it better than baking it. 

Once that's cooked and the sauce is ready I combine them and serve over noodles! My husband and I really like this recipe for Alfredo sauce and I hope you do to! :) 

That's all for my Tasty Tuesday!:)

Love, Taylor