Pollo Monte Bianco - Italian classic done easy everyday style!

This is a great dish - simple to make, and classic taste!  A great company dish.  Enjoy!!
Buon  appetito!

Pollo Monte Bianco

This is a great, simple recipe for a traditional Italian dish – but on steroids! An EXCELLENT company dish!

Ingredients:

4 Chicken breasts, cut in ½, and hammered to ¼ inch thickness
½ 8.5 oz can artichoke hearts, drained
¾ cup chopped porta bella mushrooms
2 large cloves garlic, diced fine
1 small shallot diced fine
1 cup frozen or fresh spinach
2/3 cup white whine
¼ cup half and half
1 roasted pepper from 7.5 oz jar
Salt and pepper to taste
3 tbs butter
2 tbs light olive oil (not first press virgin)
¼ cup fresh grated parmesan cheese

Instructions:

In large skillet, melt butter with olive oil, add garlic and shallots and ½ the wine, and sauté till translucent – about 4 minutes.. Season pounded chicken breasts with salt and pepper, and sauté in butter/oil mixture till browned – about 5 minutes per side.

Add ½ the wine, and simmer, stirring browned bits off of bottom of pan. Add mushrooms, roasted pepper and artichoke hearts, and simmer for about 8 – 10 minutes.

Add spinach and half and half, and simmer till warmed through.

Serve over whole wheat linguine – with fresh cracked pepper, and topped with fresh parmesan cheese. Can be served over spinach instead of pasta.

Serves 4

Comments

  1. ViolettaJanuary 6, 2014 at 10:20 AM

    Hi to everyone. I am italian and this dish is too rich to be italian.
    No mushrooms, cracked peppers and linuine.
    Use only:
    Olive oil in a oven pan. Salt and pepper on hammered chicken breasts.
    Spinachs premixed in a pan with butter salt and pepper, then spread on chicken and al last much grated parmesan.
    Put in the oven at 200 °C for 20 minutes. Eat like this non pasta needed for any reason.
    See you ^__^

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