Chicken And Broccoli Alfredo

Episode 1

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well hello and welcome to our first show my name is Polly be and today we’ll be tackling chicken and broccoli alfredo now I’ve had many a family gathering and they’ve all requested this meal and that works out just wonderfully because it’s good as for two people as it is for 20 people the basic rule that you’re going to want to follow is you’re going to want anywhere from a quarter to a half pound of chicken per person as well as anywhere from a half or two a quarter of a pound of broccoli / guests some of the other ingredients that we will be dealing with today are a can to tend and a half of parmesan Romano cheese now you can pick that up anywhere you can pick that up at your family grow sure now my secret ingredient which I don’t tell too many people about ours the asiago cheese that’s a deli section anywhere you shop will need some light cream anywhere from a court to a quart and a half you’re going to need about a quarter to a half cup of pasta per person and you’ll need some olive oil extra virgin preferably to brown the chicken up as well as get the broccoli ready to go many people’s mistake is that they’ll let the sauce do their talking but I find that to be kind of bland so what we’re going to want to do is once we Brown our chicken with our broccoli we’re going to want to get that seasoned up now I have a proprietary blend of seasonings that I like to use and that’s a garlic pepper some celery salt and some chili powder it’s going to give it a nice kick and it’s going to bring that saltiness that you’re going to need to the dish you might notice that I’m wearing rubber gloves a lot of people don’t like to deal with chicken it’s kind of gross kind of slimy I like to wear gloves keeps everything nice and clean and simple so we’re going to want to take our chicken tenderloin and I’ve simply opened up the package put it on to my cutting board and we’re just going to want to cut it into approximately one inch sections very important that you get a very sharp fillet knife and just simply cut away get this ready to go now you can use chicken breast you probably want to get it filleted you’ll get it nice and thin what we have here is chicken tenderloin ultimately you’re going to want to come up with about one by one by about a half inch chunk of chicken and that will allow it to properly cook in the pan in the time allotted now we bring you Ali’s tip of the day and always remember never dish wash your sharp knives they should always be done in the sink with some mild dish detergent and nice sponge all right looks like everything’s up to par we’re going to get on over to the stove and we’re going to get this meal going all right here we are as mentioned earlier we’re going to need approximately one-quarter cup of olive oil extra virgin preferably you’re going to want to get your pan nice and hot we have our chicken here it is approximately a quarter of an inch by one by one it’s ready to get in there as mentioned earlier if the pieces aren’t all pretty much the same size they’re not going to cook it evenly you’re going to be able to tell as this is cooking that the pink spots become white once your chicken is white through and through you’re going to know that it’s ready to go if you notice a couple of pieces are a little larger than that one by one you can simply take your spatula and just work it on out my proprietary blend of seasoning tends to normally include some garlic pepper seasoning as well as some garlic so we don’t want some garlic powder you’re going to want some celery seed you don’t want some chili powder now that’s just going to kick it up because people like when they’re sauce does the talking for them but we’re going to want the chicken and the broccoli to make it happen as we’ve discussed before we’re going to want about anywhere from a quarter to a half pound of chicken / gas and we’re also going to win about a quarter to a half cup of broccoli / guest let’s get this we’re going to add this in here again if you think you’ve over seasoned it a little too much don’t worry about it you’ve still got a little more to go sorry right so let’s get this mix it nice and good as we’ve mentioned before we’d like to use mostly the floor let’s of the broccoli but you feel they’ve come a little bit large in this instance you could just simply take your spatula just chapel there this is yours basket now if that spatula is giving you some trouble don’t hesitate to grab a knife and just shut those little bad asses off alrighty now we have that chicken and broccoli under control let’s take a look at our sauce pot it’s about a medium sized sauce pot it’s about halfway full it’s nice and boiling let’s see what we can put in that bad Larry now my favorite pasta for this type of meal is a campanile it’s kind of broad a little bit like a lasagna shell picks up a lot of sauce let’s see how it does with the water all right we’ll give this guy a nice stir and again don’t forget to salt your water more times than not I’m going to get the sauce going before I even start this and before I even go there the most important part of that is that you’re going to want to bring this light cream and one can of evaporated milk you’re going to want to bring that to a slow boil or a nice simmer now as you can see we have a nice simmer let’s go on over to our cheese as we talked about earlier you can use anywhere from a can to two cans of a good parmesan Romano cheese and you can get that again at any groceries market my secret ingredient is on the top it’s asiago now this is the important part it’s usually good when you have a helper now helper would you hold this shoes for me we gotta slowly incorporate it into our sauce thank you a message this is going to allow for the proper incorporation of the cheese the key is very slow and whisk a lot once you’ve got this nice and whisked in and it is drippy then you are ready to go my friend what we’re going to do we’re going to grab this butter we’re going to let that float on the top now once your broccoli is tender and your butter is melted then you are good to go all right then we get the pasta nice in al dente nice and dry how you doing there chicken and broccoli just toss it on right in there our butter is melted too let’s get this on in there toss it on up and I’ll meet you in the dining room and thank you for joining us on our very first show we’re going to try to make this very exciting for you so we can see you back next time thanks for watching episode 1 of 4 cube for recipe information check out our website at 4 cube TV that’s fo u RK the letter U dot TV stay tuned for more shows coming soon and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and be our friend on Facebook until next time for Q