Chicken Alfredo over Pasta

Here is a handy tip for you to make meals easier for you this week.

 

 You know those bags of chicken you can find at the grocery store? You can find them in 3 pound bags and 5 pound bags. Anyway, sometimes on the weekend I will take the whole bag and dump it into the crock pot with some Italian Salad Dressing and cook on low for 6 hours or until the chicken temps at 165 degrees.Then shred the chicken with 2 forks while it is still in the sauce and set the temp. to "warm" setting for an hour to let it soak up the sauce. Now you have chicken that is ready for recipes for the week. If I cooked 8 pieces of chicken then I will take about half of the chicken and bag it up into a zip bag to use in making dinner.

 

Then I will take the rest of the meat and put it into 4 individual small zip bags for Jonathan to pack in his lunch to take to school. He likes Chicken, Bacon, Ranch and Cheese Wraps.

 

 

For this meal, I used half of the meat out of the larger zip bag or about 2 chicken breasts worth of cooked chicken. Hubby wasn't home so I only had to fix enough for Jonathan and me. I heated up the chicken in a skillet with a little vegetable oil, then I added the jar of Ragu Classic Alfredo Sauce and a bunch of Parmesan cheese. My guess would be about a half of a cup of Parmesan cheese. The Italian flavored chicken and the Alfredo Sauce together taste really good in my opinion. I fixed bow tie pasta that I had in the cupboard (you can use whatever pasta you have on hand)

 

This meal is delicious with a simple tossed salad and those Bisquick Garlic Cheese biscuits too! This made enough that we had leftovers the next night.

 

Now you still have all that other chicken cooked and ready to toss another meal together this week or throw it in the freezer for another time.

 

Quick and easy!