Asiago Chicken Pasta with Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Spinach – with everything smothered in a delicious Asiago cheese sauce. Easy recipe that tastes great and looks great.
If you love Asiago cheese, this is a great recipe to try! Asiago definitely has a very strong and distinctive flavor, and when melted into a creamy sauce for this Asiago Chicken Pasta, that flavor becomes more smooth yet you can still recognize it’s an Asiago cheese. To me, using Asiago cheese in a pasta sauce is my favorite way to use it. And it is perfectly complemented by chicken sauteed with garlic, spinach, and sun-dried tomatoes!
Short pasta, such as penne, is perfect for creamy pasta recipes like this one – Asiago cheese cream sauce perfectly coats every single pasta bite. Both pasta and chicken are literally drowning in the Asiago sauce deliciousness! This recipe can easily be made gluten free by using gluten free brown rice penne.
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In this recipe, everything is smothered in a delicious Asiago cheese cream sauce: chicken sauteed with garlic, sun-dried tomatoes, and spinach.
- 8 oz penne pasta (use gluten free brown rice penne, for gluten free version)
- 1/3 cup sun-dried tomatoes with oil 2 tablespoons
- 1 lb chicken breast sliced in half, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves minced
- salt
- 1/4 teaspoon paprika
- 1 cup half and half and more - (half milk - half cream to form a lighter cream)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup Asiago cheese shredded
- 2 cups spinach fresh
- Cook pasta according to package instructions. Drain, rinse.
Use sun-dried tomatoes in oil - if the sun-dried tomatoes are too big, chop them into smaller bites.
- Heat sun-dried tomatoes (cut them) in 2 tablespoons of olive oil and chopped garlic on medium heat. Add chopped chicken breast to the sun-dried tomatoes and oil - generously season the chicken in the skillet with salt and paprika. Cook chicken until it's cooked through completely.
To the same skillet with chicken and sun-dried tomatoes, add 1 cup of half and half and 1/4 teaspoon salt - bring to boil. Add 1/2 cup of grated Asiago cheese (half of what the recipe calls for) and stir for about 30 seconds to melt the cheese. Reduce the heat from boil to medium and continue stirring to make sure all cheese melts. At this point, if the sauce is too thin, gradually add the remaining 1/2 of Asiago cheese on medium heat, constantly stirring all around the skillet.
If the sauce gets too thick, add another 1/3 cup of half and half and stir.
Taste the sauce - if 1/4 teaspoon salt was not enough, add more.
- Add cooked and drained pasta to the sauce. Add spinach, mix everything - cover with the lid and let the pasta sit to allow spinach to wilt, on low simmer. After spinach has wilted, stir everything together to combine, taste and add more salt, if needed.
WHAT IS HALF AND HALF? Half and half is the US milk product that combines half milk half heavy cream (whipping cream) to form a lighter cream (unlike heavy cream). You can easily make it yourself by combining half milk half heavy or whipping cream. If you live in the UK, half and half would be the equivalent of single cream. Alternatively, you can mix half double cream and half regular milk (if you live in the UK).
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Made this for dinner tonight and it was so delicious! Thanks for sharing!
How much is one serving? Also what would the nutritional facts be if I didn’t eat the pasta?
This was very good, even my 4 year old, who rarely eats anymore, cleaned her plate.
I think next time, I may add some crimini mushrooms.
Made this for dinner last night, followed the recipe exactly (aside from halving it from 4 servings to 2) and it was PERFECT!! Thanks so much!!!
So glad you liked it! 🙂
You know it’s a good recipe when my kids (8 and 5 years) cleaned their plates and asked for more. So easy and tasty to prepare! Thanks for sharing with us. Karen
Glad to hear that! 🙂
Just finished making this recipe. Awesome! Tell all the above commenters to take a hike. This is not an American cheese, mac and cheese recipe. That bunch of above cats were meaner than I have ever encountered on Pinterest! My mama said “if you can’t say anything nice, Say NOTHING at ALL! I know what Asiago cheese tastes like and was thrllled to find the recipe. Don’t be discouraged. When they learn to cook AND spell they will come kicking and screaming into the world of adult food. I am 72 years old and have been cooking for 59 years, This recipe is wonderful. Barbara Karr.
Thank you, Barbara, for such a passionate comment! 🙂 So glad that you enjoyed the recipe and glad that you appreciate the flavor of Asiago Cheese as much as I do! 🙂
I just finished making this recipe. I cut the garlic down a bit because it’s just to strong for me! Awesome ! Thank you!
You’re very welcome! I am glad you liked it!