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pasta with chicken
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California Pizza Kitchen Chicken Tequila Fettuccine
5 stars based on 20 reviews
Ready in: Under 30 minutes ?
Difficulty: 3/5
Serves/Makes: 4
photo by: Natalie Marshall
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INGREDIENTS:
1 pound dry spinach fettuccine
OR
2 pounds fresh spinach fettuccine
1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
2 tablespoons chopped cilantro reserved for garnish
2 tablespoons minced fresh garlic
2 tablespoons minced jalapeno pepper (seeds and veins may be removed)
3 tablespoons unsalted butter (reserve tablespoon for saute )
1/2 cup chicken stock (preferably homemade)
2 tablespoons gold tequila
2 tablespoons freshly-squeezed lime juice
3 tablespoons soy sauce
1 1/4 pound chicken breast, diced 3/4 inch
1/4 medium red onion, thinly sliced
1/2 medium red bell pepper, thinly sliced
1/2 medium yellow bell pepper thinly sliced
1/2 medium green bell pepper, thinly sliced
1 1/2 cup heavy cream
DIRECTIONS:
Prepare rapidly boiling, salted water to cook pasta; cook until al dente, 8 to 10 minutes for dry pasta, approximately 3 minutes for fresh. Pasta may be cooked slightly ahead of time, rinsed and oiled and then "flashed" (reheated) in boiling water or cooked to coincide with the finishing of the sauce/topping.
Cook 1/3 cup cilantro, garlic and jalapeno in 2 tablespoons butter over medium heat for 4 to 5 minutes. Add stock, tequila and lime juice. Bring the mixture to a boil and cook until reduced to a paste like consistency; set aside. Pour soy sauce over diced chicken; set aside for 5 minutes.
Meanwhile cook onion and peppers, stirring occasionally, with remaining butter over medium heat. When the vegetables have wilted (become limp), add chicken and soy sauce; toss and add reserved tequila/lime paste and cream. Bring the sauce to a boil; boil gently until chicken is cooked through and sauce is thick (about 3 minutes). When sauce is done, toss with well-drained spinach fettuccine and reserved cilantro. Serve family style or transfer to serving dishes, evenly distributing chicken.
NUTRITION:
This California Pizza Kitchen Chicken Tequila Fettuccine recipe from CDKitchen serves/makes 4
Recipe ID: 4821
REVIEWS:
Guest: special k 2012-04-27
LOVED this recipe, really does taste like CPK. To save 100 calories and a lot of sodium, i substituted pasta for shirataki fettucini noodles. You just have to cook down the cream a lot so that the noodles soak it in, otherwise it is watery. Def always garnish with lime and YUM!
Guest: VannJ 2012-04-03
Made this last night - Incredible! Everyone loved it. AS good or better than CPK I made one change to ingredient and that was to add a whole medium onion ( was really awesome
k_nikki86 2012-02-21
I made this last night and it tasted almost exactly like the dish from CPK. To make it a little healthier, I substituted 1 cup of fat free half&half and 1/2 cup of plain greek yogurt for the heavy whipping cream. The texture of the sauce looked a little strange but it tasted amazing. Thanks for the great recipe!
jetfood 2011-09-13
This was excellent and I haven't eaten at a California Kitchen restaurant. I had several things on hand that I needed to dispose of so I decided to try this. The changes I made due to available items on hand were: I used thin spaghetti instead of fettucine; I used 1/2 cup of 1% milk with 1 cup cream, and I used pickled jalapenos(rinsed) instead of fresh, and I also used only 1/2 lb. pasta. My husband loved it.
Guest: Maria 2011-07-06
it taste exactly like the pasta at CPK,We are stationed overseas and there not a decent pasta place. i made it for my husband for dinner and he loved it!!! i loved it as well, i recommend it to anyone, great tasting!
SofiLola85 2011-04-07
I surprised my husband with this recipe and for the first time and he was moaning at how delicious it was, hahaha. He was so excited to take it to work the next day for lunch as well. For a non cook, this was definitely more difficult for me. I loved every minute of the cooking process and was excited to taste everything along the way. I honestly never thought a recipe online would be as good as the restaurant but it came out better. Thank you!
Guest: EWM 2011-03-12
This recipe is always a hit. I worked at CPK a long (long, long) time ago and they had us garnish the pasta with a squirt of fresh lime juice and chopped fresh cilantro, which really adds a nice finishing touch.
Guest: Mindy 2010-06-28
I am in LOVE with this dish at the restaurant and am absolutely amazed how identical this recipe is...it tastes exactly the same! I love veggies and used the entire onion and all three peppers (not halves), which turned out great. My grocery store didn't have spinach fettuccini, but regular worked fine. Next time I plan to use two jalapenos to amp up the heat! Also, it says serves four but I three of us ate it and had over half of it left, so I'd say six is more like it.
Guest: paramedichick 2010-05-05
This Pasta is amazing! Tastes just like the kind at CPK! Better even! I followed the recipe exactly and it came out perfect! The only thing ddifferent i had to do was add a little bit of corn starch to the cream sauce to make it thicker and that was it! Otherwise, PERFECT!
Gina0530 2009-10-06
OMG this recipe turned out awesome! It tastes so much like the actual dish from CPK. The only thing I would recommend is to use less pasta or make more sauce to balance it out. I didn't use the jalapeno peppers and I added more lime than the recipe says to put & I absolutely loved it!!! Will make this for sure again. Yummy!
Guest: Eater 2009-08-31
Great recipe. I just followed the general gist of it. I didn't have tequila, so I substituted rum. I also didn't bother with the jalapenos (since I can't do hot). I didn't have spinach fettuccine so I used penne. I also cooked everything together, instead of driving myself crazy with too many dishes to clean up afterward. Tasted better than CPK!
Guest: smileface 2009-05-12
this turned out perfectly!! the other reviewers were right about the amount of pasta though. i cut down to 3/4 lbs.
Guest: Anonymous 2008-05-27
I am a novice when it comes to cooking but these directions were easy enough for me to make this dish! When all was said and done this dish was extremely close to the real thing, believe me the Tequila Lime Chicken is all I order from CPK. The only things I changed were to add more lime to taste and use less pasta. Regular whipping cream works just as well as heavy cream. Also a little more tequila, onion, and bell pepper than I used would have been perfect! I will definitely be making this one again!!
Guest: pandassan 2007-09-14
This is a great recipe. It took me a little time to gather the ingredients but so worth it.. YUMMY
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