Thursday, March 4, 2010

Trader Joe's Thursdays

Do you have to make a nice-ish dinner but have about 10 minutes to do so?!?!? That's what happened to me the other night so this quick chicken parm was invented. Here ya go...

Totally Cheating Chicken Parm

1 container of "just chicken" cooked strips
1/4 C. flour and 1/2 C. Italian bread crumbs, mixed
frozen basil cubes
butter
1 jar of Vodka Sauce or 1 can of Toscana Marinara Sauce if you want lower fat/calories (I usually add stuff to any store bought sauce like sugar and garlic but these are fine without any if you're really in a hurry!)
1 pack of Angel Hair pasta or penne pasta
fresh parmesan cheese

~Ok, take the cooked chicken strips and toss them in the flour mixture until fully coated. Put some butter and 3 basil cubes in a frying pan and melt them together. Add chicken and cook until golden brown and covered in basil over medium heat-about 2 minutes each side. Meanwhile, cook pasta and heat sauce. Drain pasta, toss with olive oil or butter and 3 cubes of basil and 1/4 C. of parm cheese. Put on a platter. Pour hot pasta sauce over the top. Carefully arrange chicken on top of sauce and sprinkle the whole platter with fresh parm cheese. Delicious and QUICK!!!!!

3 comments:

kellycowan said...

i always appreciate your trader joe thursdays! loved those greek pitas. also, have been meaning to tell you i like this new background on your blog. i always found myself wishing that pink swoosh thing on your other one would move so i could read it better :)

Unknown said...

Mmmm, that sounds yummy! And I didn't know you could buy frozen basil cubes, that sounds like a great invention for me since I always buy fresh basil for a recipe and only use half of it and the rest goes bad!

Pinkie Winkie said...

Melanie, They are only at trader Joe's. And they have frozen garlic and cilantro cubes too. They are AWESOME!!!!