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Chicken Tetrazini

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Main Dishes / Chicken

Chicken Tetrazini
Prep15
Cook25
Total40
Servings6

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