The Best Chicken Riggies!!
Ingredients
- 1 lb chicken breast, cut into cubes
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 large onion, sliced
- 1 teaspoon garlic
- salt and pepper
- 4 ounces sliced mushrooms
- 1/2 cup black olives, sliced
- 1 large green bell pepper, sliced thin
- 4 pickled hot cherry peppers, stemmed, seeded and thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon basil
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- salt and pepper
- 1 (28 ounce) can tomato puree
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1 lb rigatoni pasta
- 1/2 cup light cream
Instructions
- Saute chicken, onion, and garlic in butter and oil, until lightly browned in a heavy saucepan over med-high heat. Season with salt and pepper.
- Add mushrooms, olives, peppers, basil and oregano. Season with salt and pepper. Cook 5-10 mins over med. heat.
- Add tomato puree and chicken broth. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low, cover and simmer.
- Cook pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water. Once al dente, drain and return to pot.
- Right before draining pasta add cream to sauce and turn off heat.
- Add sauce to pasta.
- Serve with grated cheese and lots of Italian bread.