Today I have a fresh and summery Creamy Lemon Grilled Chicken, Asparagus and Artichoke Pasta! The idea for this pasta came from the flavours of my favourite snack, spinach and artichoke dip, and I was thinking that it would be nice to take a summery twist where the spinach was replaced with asparagus. Things kind of flowed from there, I wanted to use the flavours in a dinner so I went with a pasta and since it’s summer I decided to grill the asparagus, because out door cooking is always fun, and since I had the grill on anyways why not grill up some chicken? The dip flavours come from using cream cheese to make the sauce along with plenty of parmesan! To brighten things up I add lemon and parsley making this one really summery dish! This creamy lemon grilled chicken, asparagus and artichoke pasta is just packed with the flavours of spinach and artichoke dip and the summery twist with the asparagus and lemon is simply amazing!
Creamy Lemon Grilled Chicken, Asparagus and Artichoke Pasta
A bright and fresh grilled chicken and asparagus pasta in a creamy lemon and artichoke sauce!
ingredients
- 1/2 pound boneless and skinless chicken breast
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 pound asparagus, washed and trimmed
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 8 ounce fettuccine (gluten-free for gluten-free)
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 4 ounces cream cheese (reduced fat), room temperature, cubed
- 1/2 cup parmigiano reggiano (parmesan), grated
- 1 cup milk (or broth or pasta water)
- 1 (14 ounce) can artichoke hearts, coarsely chopped
- 1 lemon, juice and zest
- 2 tablespoons parsley, chopped
- salt and pepper to taste
directions
- Season the chicken with salt and pepper and grill over medium-high heat until cooked, about 3-5 minutes per side before setting aside.
- Toss the asparagus spears in the oil, salt and pepper and grill over medium-high heat until crisp-tender and slightly charred before setting aside to cool and slicing into bite sized pieces.
- Meanwhile, cook the pasta as directed on the package.
- Meanwhile melt the butter in a pan over medium heat, add the garlic and cook until fragrant, about a minute.
- Add the cream cheese and let it melt before mixing in the parmesan, milk and artichokes and cooking until all of the cheese has melted.
- Mix in the pasta, lemon juice and zest, parsley, season with salt and pepper to taste and enjoy!
Option: Add red pepper flakes to taste with the garlic for some heat!
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My boys would love this for a weeknight meal!
What a great chicken recipe!!
Looks like another winner!
Do you deliver? This looks amazing, Kevin!
this looks so incredibly delicious- perfect dinner!
Yum! I'm big on simple pasta dishes and this fits the bill. So good.
Looks great! I'm assuming that the pasta gets mixed with the sauce in step 5, and the chicken and the asparagus is put on top before the salt and pepper in step 6.
I am always looking for something different to do with chicken and this recipe looked very interesting. I cut the chicken into bite size pieces and added it along with the asparagus and mixed it in. It was very good, but I think next time I will use less lemon. Thanks for the recipe.
Always love your recipes and pictures. Thanks for wanting to do this blog. I make one similar to this, but use mascarpone instead of cream cheese. Mascarpone has a few more calories, but makes it taste really decadent.
nonna23: Mascarpone would be so good!