There’s nothing like a wonderful baked pasta dish. This three cheese chicken penne florentine has plenty of cheese melted throughout to make it a fabulous comfort food meal. It’s always a favorite at the dinner table. This recipe calls for using low fat cheeses. You can definitely use full fat cheeses, if you’d like.
Ingredients needed:
olive oil mushrooms sweet onion red bell pepper spinach oregano and black pepper cottage cheese penne pasta chicken breast cheddar cheese Parmesan cheese 2% milk can of reduced-fat cream of mushroom soup
How to make Three Cheese Chicken Penne Florentine:
Sauté mushroom, onion and bell pepper in olive oil until tender. Then add spinach, oregano and black pepper. Process cottage cheese in the food processor until smooth. You can use skim ricotta in place of the cottage cheese, if you’d like. Then combine the puréed cottage cheese with the spinach mixture, cooked pasta, chicken, cheddar cheese, Parmesan cheese, milk and cream of mushroom soup. Spoon that into a casserole dish, and then sprinkle more cheddar and Parmesan cheeses on top.
The result is a wonderful, creamy and cheesy baked pasta. We love having this for dinner at my house, and I hope you do too. Enjoy!
Here are a few more chicken pasta recipes you might like to try:
Tuscan Chicken Pasta Greek Chicken Pasta Toss Cajun Chicken Pasta Chicken Pasta Primavera One Pot Creamy Chicken and Vegetable Pasta
