Pasta With Cream Cheese Sauce and Chicken Thighs

cream cheese

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: ricotta cheese

Greek yogurt reduces calories while maintaining creaminess

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grated mozzarella

Nutritional yeast adds a cheesy flavor with fewer calories

Season boneless skinless chicken thighs on both sides with salt, pepper, smoked paprika, and cumin.

In a large pot of salted boiling water, add pasta (two servings of 85g each).

In a large pan over medium heat, melt 1 tablespoon of butter.

Optional: Add two cloves of minced garlic to the pan.

Add the seasoned chicken thighs to the pan, flipping once or twice until cooked through.

Set the cooked chicken aside.

Drain the pasta, saving some of the pasta water for the sauce.

In the same pan used for the chicken, add half a cup of the saved pasta water over medium heat.

Add about 60g (1/4 of a block) of cream cheese to the pan, which will start to melt.

Add half a cube of chicken bouillon for extra flavor.

Add another half cup of the pasta water to help dissolve the cream cheese, mixing constantly.

Once everything is melted and combined, add the cooked pasta and another half cup of pasta water, mixing to combine until creamy and saucy.

Slice the cooked chicken and serve it on top of the pasta.

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