How to Make Perfect Creamy chicken tagliatelle with tenderstem broccoli

Creamy chicken tagliatelle with tenderstem broccoli.

You can cook Creamy chicken tagliatelle with tenderstem broccoli using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Creamy chicken tagliatelle with tenderstem broccoli

1. You need 35 g of plain flour.
2. Prepare 35 g of butter.
3. Prepare 350 ml of milk warmed but not mandatory just helps blend better.
4. It's 100-125 g of cheese, grated (Cheddar, Gouda or Gruyere).
5. Prepare 1 tsp of English mustard (optional but brings out cheese flavour and colour).
6. It's 200 g of tagliatelle.
7. You need 1 of chicken breast, diced 2cm sq (approx 170g).
8. Prepare 200 g of Tenderstem broccoli, 3-4cm pieces.
9. It's 5-6 of sun-dried tomatoes, sliced.
10. It's of Salt and pepper.
11. You need of Chilli flakes (optional).

Creamy chicken tagliatelle with tenderstem broccoli instructions

1. Make the cheese sauce (can be done ahead of time or whilst the pasta is cooking). Melt the butter in a medium pan. Add the flour and stir together for a few minutes to cook out the flour..
2. With whisk at the ready, add all the milk and whisk like crazy for a minute until all smooth. Stir with a spoon, and cook for a few minutes. Add the mustard if using, and cheese. When the cheese has melted season with salt and pepper and set aside..
3. Prepare the Tenderstem in a basket ready for steaming over the pasta as it cooks. Add the pasta to a pan of boiling water, and cook according to the packet instructions. Pop the basket over the pasta pan to steam broccoli for 7-9 mins, depending on the thickness of the stalks (just nibble a bit to see when done!).
4. Whilst this is cooking, get a frying pan with a little oil in it ready to fry the chicken. (Make sure it is all a similar thickness: See below) Season and fry for 7-8 mins, so that it is still tender and juicy, but not pink in the middle..
5. When the pasta is cooked drain it and retain 2 tbsps of cooking water in the pan. Add 2-3 ladles of the cheese sauce over the pasta and coat the pasta with the sauce..
6. Then add the Tenderstem, the cooked chicken and sun-dried tomatoes. Stir and serve. Sprinkle with chilli flakes if desired..
7. Troubleshoot: No Tenderstem? Purple sprouting would work or even wilt in some spinach instead. Pour boiling water over spinach in a colander, and then throw it in after you have coated the pasta in cheese sauce..
8. Troubleshoot: No steamer? Pop in the pan with the pasta for the last 5 minutes of cooking time.
9. Troubleshoot: If the chicken breast is fat at one end and thin at the other, cover with foil and hit with a rolling pin to it to make it more even!.