Chicken Tetrazini

Main Dishes Chicken

This is easy to make.

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Difficulty: easy

Ingredients

• 4 chicken breasts
• ¼ tsp. Pepper
• 2 tsp. Salt
• 1/8 tsp. Nutmeg
• 1 tsp. Onion salt
• 1 c. 2% milk or Half & Half
• ½ tsp. Celery salt
• ½ lb. Spaghetti
• 1 T. lemon juice
• ½ lb. Mushrooms (8 oz.)
• 2 T. flour
• 6 T. butter
• paprika
• 2/3 c. parmesan cheese
• ***2 ½ c. chicken broth -- either store bought or made by poaching a chicken.

Directions

1. Cook the chicken with salts. Cool and cut into small pieces. Refrigerate.
2. In sauce pan, melt 3 T. butter. Stir in flour, ¼ tsp. Paprika, 1 tsp. Salt, pepper, nutmeg. Add cream and 2 ½ c. chicken broth. Cook and stir until it boils. Pour mixture over chicken. Refrigerate.
3. Boil water for pasta and cook for 6 minutes – not until done!!!
4. Drain pasta and place in a 9X13 baking dish. Saute the mushrooms in 3 T. butter until soft, not brown.
5. Sprinkle with lemon juice and ½ tsp. Salt. Toss mushrooms with pasta. One hour before serving, stir in chicken with sauce. Sprinkle with cheese. Bake covered for 25 minutes, or until bubbling at 400 degrees.

Source: Recipe from Suzanne Herron via Senya Herron

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