Spring Bucatini Pasta | Asparagus, Spinach, Mushrooms & Chicken Inwards A Lemon Cream

You all know that I honey pasta thence much.  I essay to restrain ourselves to only a twain of a pasta dinners per week.  One is unremarkably a reddish sauce - spaghetti in addition to meatballs, chicken parm, ragu or bolognese - in addition to ane is unremarkably a buttery lemon sauce alongside chicken or shrimp.  I'm the alone ane inwards our household unit of measurement that goes crazy for shrimp, thence unremarkably it is chicken.  Emma absolutely loves anything alongside lemon in addition to chicken, thence this dinner was a large hit.  We'll exercise variations on this all twelvemonth long, but this ane felt specially springy.  

I ever essay to add together about greenish veggies for dinner in addition to beingness seasonal is fifty-fifty better.  The asparagus, mushrooms in addition to spinach assistance stretch the pasta in addition to give this thence much to a greater extent than nutritional heft in addition to flavor in addition to brand this experience similar spring.  I used bucatini, which is a spaghetti form but that has a hole downwards the center, similar a tube.  It makes it form of extra chewy in addition to thick.  You could purpose whatever form - bowtie, penne, angel pilus or linguine.  

Lemon Cream sauce may seem complex, but it is only butter, lemon juice in addition to cream.  The prep for the chicken is rattling unproblematic - only olive stone oil in addition to garlic tabular array salt in addition to then grilled or roasted inwards the oven.   Could non hold upwards easier.   I top the entire matter alongside thick slices of burrata cheese to actually pose it over the top.  You tin sack stir the mutual coldness burrata into the warm lemon-y cream if you lot want, but I form of similar to relish it picayune past times picayune alongside each bite.

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Spring Bucatini Pasta
Asparagus, Spinach, Mushrooms & Chicken inwards a Lemon Cream

4 small-scale chicken breasts
olive oil
garlic salt
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1 pound of pasta (bucatini)
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4 tablespoons of butter
1 pound of asparagus, trimmed in addition to cutting into 1 1/2" pieces
1 loving cup of mushrooms, sliced
1 clove of garlic thinly sliced
2 large handfuls of spinach
1 lemon, juiced
1/2 loving cup of cream
sea salt
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burrata cheese (or fresh mozzarella or parmesan)

Chicken :
Preheat the grill or oven.  Drizzle the chicken breasts alongside olive oil, in addition to then sprinkle alongside garlic salt.  Grill for five minutes on each side or roast for 18-20 minutes until meat thermometer reads 140 degrees.  Let residual covered, in addition to then spell only earlier serving.

Cook Pasta* :
Cook pasta inwards salted boiling H2O for less than 2 minutes than directed on the package.  You desire it to hold upwards slightly chewy.  ***Reserve 1 loving cup of the pasta H2O to purpose inwards the sauce.

  Veggies & Sauce : 

Melt the butter on depression inwards a large sauce or saute pan (it should hold upwards large plenty to concord all of the pasta, too).  Cook asparagus on medium for most five minutes until tender.  Add mushrooms in addition to top on cooking until cooked through.  Add sliced garlic in addition to gear upwards for thirty seconds.  Reduce rut to low, in addition to then crush inwards lemon juice in addition to stir inwards cream.  Add bounding main tabular array salt to taste.  Add a picayune flake of the reserved pasta water, in addition to then permit simmer until bubbling lightly.  Add spinach in addition to toss it alongside sauce.

When the pasta is gear upwards add together it straight from the boiling H2O to the sauce alongside tongs.  Toss alongside the sauce in addition to permit it simmer on depression for a infinitesimal or two.  Add to a greater extent than pasta H2O if the sauce seems to thick.  Remove from the rut in addition to add together sliced chicken in addition to thick slices of burrata.  Top alongside parmesan if you'd like.

This is how the sauce looks earlier the spinach.

You tin sack add together lots in addition to lots of spinach - it cooks downwards to nothing!

Allowing the pasta to gear upwards inwards the sauce a picayune helps it to absorb the flavors.

yum!!  this was so, thence good.

Oh, that burrata.

This is what dinner typically looks similar for us - form of ane pot, but non really.  I ever honey to postulate heed what you're making for dinner, too... gives me novel ideas from the typical spaghetti, tacos, burgers, pizza rotation : )

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