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Welcome to Food for Thought, a monthly article series where we will explore new ways to approach cooking while looking ahead to life after high school. Whether it's a dorm, an apartment, or a gourmet kitchen, these recipes, tips, and tricks will help you be a master of your kitchen! Be sure to come back each month for new recipes and tips!
Have you ever cooked for yourself before? If not, that's okay, I have your back, and if you are a senior going into college and you are worried about what you are going to eat, I got you. These recipes will be cheap, short, as well as healthy so you don't have to eat ramen or any other unhealthy foods, instead of eating those, make this recipe, and thank me later. I will also show you how to make this recipe and you can follow me.
Recipe:
Ingredients:
2-4 Chicken breasts cubed or any amount of chicken
1 bag of Fettuccine noodles or any noodles you like
Garlic Salt to Taste
Black Pepper to Taste
Italian Seasoning to Taste or any seasoning you like or want
Milk to the amount of creaminess you desire
1/2 stick butter
Flour to a preferred thickness of sauce
Oil just so the chicken doesn't stick to the pan as well as so the noodles won't stick together
Equipment:
Pot to boil water in
Pan to cook the chicken in
Cutting Board
Large Tupperware container
Instructions:
1. Fill a pot with water and put on the stove to start boiling
2. Cut chicken into bite-sized cubes
3. Put a little oil in the pan and add your chicken garlic salt, pepper, and Italian
seasoning to taste and cook for about 15 minutes stirring about every 2 minutes
until the chicken is cooked, and then set aside.
4. Once water is boiling in the pot add a little bit of oil and add your noodles, cook
till one of the noodles sticks to the wall when you throw it at it.
5. Once the noodles are done strain them and leave a little pasta water in the
bottom, make sure to leave the noodles in the pot
6. Now that the chicken and the noodles are done, add the milk, butter, garlic salt,
black pepper, and Italian seasoning, to the noodles, keeping the heat on to melt the
butter make sure to stir the noodles so it all gets incorporated and to melt the
butter.
7. Once the butter is melted and the noodles are well covered add the chicken and
stir
8. Now that the noodles and chicken are all combined, slowly add flour so your
desired thickness of the sauce
9. Now your homemade chicken alfredo is done!!! All you have to do is put it in a
bowl and enjoy.
10. Now with the leftovers still in your pot you are going to put them in a large
Tupperware container and put them in the fridge for later.
Finished Product
Tips and Information:
Vegan Substitutions:
tofu
mushrooms
cauliflower
Store-bought chicken Substitutes, Protein Replacements
Nuts/Cashews or Almonds
beans like Pinto beans or tempeh beans
Lactose intolerant Substitutions:
Soy Milk
Almond Milk
Canned coconut milk
Water
Oat Milk
HEMP Milk
Gluten-Free Substitutions:
Chickpea flour (also called garbanzo bean flour)
Rice Flour
Almond Flour
Buckwheat Flour
Any Gluten free noodles
Equipment Substitutions:
No stove? Use a Microwave:
I just half fill a small bowl with noodles, add enough water to cover them, microwave for a minute to get it hot, and then continue heating, stopping to stir every 30 seconds or whenever it is about to boil over, whichever comes first.
No Cutting board? Use a plate
No Pan? Use a plate and cook the chicken in the microwave
No Tupperware container use a bowl and cover with either seranwrap or you can also just put it in a bag.
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