🍅 What Makes This Recipe So Good
If you’re a fan of our Marry Me Chicken recipe, you can already imagine how incredible this pasta version is. Feel free to scroll right on down to the recipe card. If you’re new to all-things-marry-me, though, WELCOME, and prepare to be swept off your feet. Marry me chicken pasta has every single delicious thing you love from the original chicken dish, but it adds a pound of tender al dente penne pasta to put the whole recipe over the top. That pasta is smothered in an incredible, rich sun-dried tomato cream sauce – and that’s not an exaggeration. There’s so much delectable flavor in such a simple sauce, it’s almost too good to be true. Almost. This recipe is somehow even easier than the original! We cut out all the oven steps, making this a super quick, super simple stovetop recipe that’s perfect for even the busiest of weeknights. I still recommend a cast-iron skillet because of that beautiful sear they give, but absolutely any skillet will work!
👩🏼‍🍳 Chef’s Tips
Ever had a cream sauce that just refuses to be smooth, no matter what you do? You most likely added your dairy products while they were too cold! If the heavy cream or parmesan is cold or even too cool, when you add them to hot liquid in a hot skillet, the temperature shock will make them seize, clump, or curdle. That’s why we always specify that your dairy products need to be at room temperature. Make sure you move the skillet off the heat and let it cool a little before adding any dairy products, too. We made our marry me chicken pasta with chicken breasts, but you can totally use boneless, skinless chicken thighs if you prefer them. With chicken breasts, I prefer to slice mine into thin cutlets. That way, they cook faster and more evenly. Whatever you decide to use, make sure all the pieces are roughly the same size and same thickness. If they differ drastically, they’ll cook at different rates. Way more likely you’ll end up with pieces that are overcooked while others are undercooked!
🍝 More of Our Favorite Pasta Dishes
Greek Chicken Skillet with Orzo, Feta, and Spinach Lasagna Soup Tomato Florentine Soup Blackened Chicken Alfredo Creamy Rotel Pasta with Ground Beef Paleo Carbonara with Palmini Buffalo Chicken Alfredo Escarole Soup Asiago Tortelloni Alfredo With Grilled Chicken Lobster Mac and Cheese Ground Beef Alfredo Very Favorite Stir Fry Noodles (with Tofu or Chicken) Instant Pot Chicken and Noodles
