Garlic Chicken, Bacon, and Ranch Pasta - easy, comfort food dinner recipe. Chicken cooked in olive oil, with garlic, paprika, chili powder, and Italian seasoning, then combined with bacon, Ranch dressing and pasta makes a winning combination!
This bacon ranch pasta with chicken is a super easy recipe made with simple ingredients. In this recipe, I used gluten free penne pasta and gluten free Ranch dressing, which makes this whole dinner completely gluten free friendly!
This is an easy weeknight dinner recipe that will be liked by the whole family: you just can't go wrong when you combine bacon and Ranch dressing with chicken and pasta.
What makes this recipe special and super tasty is that first you cook chicken in olive oil, garlic, and spices (paprika, chili powder, Italian seasoning). Then you combine the rest of ingredients together:
I added about 1 cup of Ranch dressing, just because I like my pasta very creamy, but ½ cup of dressing could be enough, too, if you don't like overly creamy dishes.
I hope you will enjoy this bacon ranch pasta with chicken dinner as much as I did!
Garlic Chicken, Bacon, and Ranch Pasta
Ingredients
- 8 oz penne pasta (use gluten free pasta for gf version)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 lb chicken breasts , chopped into smaller pieces
- ½ teaspoon Paprika
- ½ teaspoon Chili Powder
- ½ teaspoon Italian Seasoning
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 6 strips bacon cooked, chopped
- 1 cup Ranch dressing , gluten free
- ⅓ cup fresh parsley chopped, to taste
Instructions
- Cook pasta in a large pot of boiling water according to the package instructions, drain.
- In a large skillet heat olive oil on medium heat. Add sliced chicken, sprinkle with spices, and cook for several minutes, until the chicken is cooked through and no longer pink in the center. Remove the skillet from heat, and add minced garlic to mix with chicken.
- Add cooked bacon and cooked pasta to the skillet with chicken.
- Add Ranch dressing, chopped fresh parsley to the skillet with the chicken, stir, heat everything up on medium heat gently. Remove from heat when the chicken and pasta are heated through.
- Top with a small amount of chopped parsley.
Nutrition
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I used spinach instead of parsley and my family loved it. Definitely adding this to our rotation.
So happy you liked this recipe!
I just made this with canned chicken breast didn't have olive oil used grease to fry it in. used the spices with the minced garlic. and added bacon bits and ranch but it looks kinda moist is it supposed to look like that
What is ranch dressing
Jackie, this is the Ranch dressing: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Hidden-Valley-Original-Ranch-Salad-Dressing-Topping-24-Ounce-Bottle/10413975
Thanks for the recipe!
I made this for my family tonight we absolutely love it !!!!!!!
I am very happy to hear that!
Good. Very tasty. But be careful on the amount of ranch dressing. Start with 1/4 cup then add more to your taste. I only used 1/4 cup with great results.
Thank you! I am glad you liked this recipe! Thank you for your feedback about not adding too much Ranch dressing!
My oldest made it for dinner last night and omg so good.
So happy you enjoyed it! 🙂
Tried this tonight minus the parsley (I didn't have any), and it was fabulous. Thanks for sharing 🙂
So glad you liked it! 🙂
I made this for my husband and three boys tonight and I added about 4 more strips of bacon, a little more chicken, 12 oz of pasta and a whole cup of ranch dressing. I also added more spices. It was delicious!