Make the sauce: Add 1 tablespoon butter to the pan, when it’s sizzling add finely chopped garlic, 1 teaspoon of dry basil and 1/2 teaspoon of onion powder and cook, stirring, over medium heat for a minute.Ĥ. Don’t stir for the first 2 minutes (to let the chicken brown), then cook, stirring until the chicken is cooked through (no longer pink inside). Once hot, add the chicken pieces in an even layer.
It’s really the easiest way and you don’t have a lot of clean-up or need a special steamer! Fusilli pasta, that I have used, needs to be cooked for 10 minutes and the broccoli needs to be steamed for 8 minutes.
So there’s a pot with pasta, a sieve with broccoli florets hung above the pot, and all of that is covered with a lid. I like to cook the pasta in a pot and steam the broccoli in a sieve above the pot (see the photos).
Pasta + broccoli: Cook 8.5oz/240g (about 3 cups uncooked pasta) pasta al dente (it should have a bite to it) and steam (or cook) the broccoli.Start with preparing the ingredients: divide the broccoli (1 head broccoli, 1lb/450g) into florets, cut the chicken breast (3 chicken breasts, 1.3lbs/600g) into 1-inch/2.5 cm cubes, chop 3 garlic cloves very finely, grate 3.5oz/100g mozzarella (on the big holes of a box grater) and 1.2oz/35g parmesan cheese (on the small holes of a box grater).
This is a complete step-by-step tutorial on how to cook this dish. How to make chicken with cheese sauce – step by step: