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in Recipes, Dinner, Meal Keto chicken Alfredo pasta
Parmesan. Cream. Bacon. These three ingredients are just the beginning of the extraordinary flavors in this dish. This is creamy and cheesy keto decadence at its finest! So comforting and more-ish, we doubt you'll miss the traditional pasta — we didn't!
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Ingredients
Pasta
- 4 4 eggeggs
- 6 6 egg yolkegg yolks
- ¾ cup 180 ml water
- 2 tbsp 2 tbsp olive oil
- ½ cup (22⁄3 oz.) 120 ml (80 g) ground psyllium husk powder
- 4 tbsp 4 tbsp coconut flour
- 1½ tsp 1½ tsp salt
Chicken, bacon & veggies
- 8 oz. 230 g bacon
- 2 lbs 900 g chicken breastchicken breasts
- 1 tbsp 1 tbsp butter, for frying
- 5 oz. (2 cups) 140 g (475 ml) mushrooms, thinly sliced
- 1 (4 oz.) 1 (120 g) red bell pepper, thinly slicedred bell peppers, thinly sliced
- salt and ground black pepper
Alfredo sauce
- 1¼ cups 300 ml heavy whipping cream
- ¾ cup 180 ml whole milk
- ¾ cup (2 oz.) 180 ml (60 g) shredded Parmesan cheese
- 4 4 garlic clove, mincedgarlic cloves, minced
- 4 tbsp 4 tbsp green pesto
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
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Instructions
- Set the oven to 300°F (150°C). Start with the pasta: Whisk the eggs and egg yolks until fluffy, add water and olive oil.
- In another bowl, combine the dry ingredients then add to the egg batter. Whisk to combine and let sit for 7-8 minutes. Stir.
- Spread the batter onto two sheets of parchment paper. Place plastic wrap on top and roll out towards the edges of the sheets. Try to spread evenly and thinly.
- Remove the plastic foil before baking. Bake for about 10 minutes. Let it cool, then roll the pasta into a log and cut into thin strips with a sharp knife.
- Fry the bacon until crisp in a large dry frying pan over high heat. Set the bacon aside.
- Cut the chicken breasts lengthwise so that you get twice as many filets. Season with salt and pepper and fry in butter in the same frying pan over medium heat until the fillets turn golden or until chicken registers 165°F (72°C).
- Fry the peppers and mushrooms in the same frying pan for a couple of minutes until softened. Season with salt and pepper.
- Bring the cream and milk to a boil in a medium-sized saucepan. Stir in parmesan, garlic, and pesto, and season with salt and pepper. Simmer until creamy.
- Mix the pasta with the vegetables in the pan and pour the sauce on top. Toss until the creamy sauce covers all the pasta and vegetables.
- Divide the pasta mix onto plates. Top with the chicken and a couple of bacon strips and perhaps a little more parmesan cheese before serving.
Tips
Make it simple by skipping the pasta and replace it with butter-fried shredded cabbage or zoodles.
Save the egg whites that aren't used in this recipe by freezing them. Place one or two egg whites at a time into small resealable bags. Be sure to label how many egg whites are in each bag. When ready to use (great for adding to scrambled eggs and omelets) thaw by submerging the bag in room temperature water for 10 minutes.
About the author
We invited popular Swedish cookbook author and blogger Åse Falkman Fredrikson to share some of her great low-carb high-fat recipes. She is a nutritional counselor and runs the Swedish top blog 56kilo.se that inspires thousands of people to a better health and a happier life.
The true science is on our side, and every week we hear of more Healthcare Professionals agreeing with us. How anyone could argue against a whole fresh food lifestyle is beyond me, but we live in a crazy world, ignorance, greed and stupidity being the common denominator.
Keep up the great work, slowly we are changing world. People are getting the message.
I love the fact that I no longer crave bread or pasta. Because I don't eat them anymore, when I do eventually bite into them, they taste bland and out of place.
not appealing at all . needless to say,, I didn't finish and wasn't disappointed in the least . I can easily pass on that stuff anymore .
Thumbs up for the current results. We'll see what happens in the next month with weight loss and energy levels. I'll get back to you all.
I just started LCHF 5 days ago and am already down 7 pounds, without ever feeling like I'm starving or having intense cravings. Thank you so much for making it such a simple plan to follow.
Thanks so much for your feedback. We've listened, re-tested this recipe, and improved it. We hope once you try it again yourself, you'll notice the difference — and love it as much as we do.
Happy cooking!
/The recipe team
P.S. To keep the comments section up-to-date, we've gone ahead and removed any comments regarding the now-resolved issues. Thanks!
Creamy sauces like this are not always the best option for freezing as the cream sauce is likely to break when reheated. We do have a guide to freezer prep recipes where you may find better options!
https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/recipes/keto-meal-prepping-and-fr...
You're making me very tempted to try this one tonight!! Thanks for such a high recommendation!
This is 2 eggs + 3 egg yolks.