A creamy, cheesy oven-baked pasta loaded with juicy chicken, tender broccoli, and a silky Alfredo sauce, baked under a golden Parmesan-mozzarella crust. It’s indulgent yet simple — the ultimate family-style tray bake.

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Ingredients
For the pasta bake:
• Penne pasta – 300 g / 10½ oz
• Cooked chicken breast – 350 g / 12 oz or more
• Broccoli florets – 250 g / 9 oz
• Olive oil – 1 tbsp / 15 ml
• Salt – ½ tsp / 3 g
• Black pepper – ¼ tsp / 0.8 g
For the Alfredo sauce:
• Butter – 3 tbsp / 45 g
• Garlic – 3 cloves, minced
• Plain (all-purpose) flour – 2 tbsp / 16 g
• Whole milk – 1 cup / 240 ml
• Double cream – ¾ cup / 180 ml
• Grated Parmesan cheese – ½ cup / 50 g
• Salt – ½ tsp / 3 g
• Black pepper – ¼ tsp / 0.8 g
• Nutmeg (optional) – pinch
For the topping:
• Mozzarella cheese, shredded – 1 cup / 100 g
• Grated Parmesan – 2 tbsp / 15 g
• Fresh parsley – 1 tbsp chopped (≈ 3 g)

Oven to 190 °C (375 °F).
Bake for 25–30 minutes

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on there. There you go. That’s our chicken Alfredo bake with our broccoli and pen. Oh, yes, please. Hi everyone. Welcome to Backyard Chef. I’m Rick. Today we’re doing an easy bake. Okay, we start off here in a pan. We throw it in a dish. Throw it in the oven. Put it on the table. We are doing a chicken Alfredo and broccoli bake. Come on. Boiling water. Now we’re going to use pen pasta. That’s a ton of salt. You need salt in there with the pasta. Little one of those. We’re going to bring that up to the boil. We’ll boil for 8 minutes. And then we’re going to chuck the broccoli in there to blanch in there. Little stir. Come on. Get it up to the boil. Now, it’s a simple recipe. This I’ve actually, as you can see, I’ve baked the chicken already. Okay, I’ve cooked the chicken in the oven. But you want cooked chicken. Shred it up. Shred it up the best you can. Big chunks, small chunks, entirely up to you. Depends what you want to eat. Um, or just get it from the rotissery or anywhere. You want cooked chicken. Let’s make this bake easy. So, it’s good for leftovers. [Applause] Okay. When you’ve had your 8 minutes, broccoli florates that we’ve prepared here in there. We need to be blanching those for about 2 minutes. Get them under there. Come on. Okay, when you’ve had a couple of minutes, you get the flame off, you grab yourself a bowl, and we put that in there. Oh, we chuck one away there. Look, straight in there. A lot of steam here. So there we go. We got a good mixture there of our broccoli and our pen pasta to one side. Grab yourself a pan. Chunk of butter in the pan. Get your flame on. In there your garlic. Let’s have that cooked off in there. Take the rawness out. in there. Couple of tablespoons of flour. Cook out the rawness of the flour. [Applause] Only takes about a minute to cook the rawness out. Look, you can see it’s bubbling away nice and steady in there. Just give it a little turn over. Little bit of pepper going in there. Salt and pepper to taste. Milk, cream. Chuck it all in together and give it a whisk up. None of this. Add a little bit. Add a little bit. Add a little bit. It’s going to thicken anyway. Come on. It’s flour. It has to. That’s the science of flour. Amazing that. Look, it’s thickened. Turn your flame off. And there were your parmesan. Give it a little stir in. Now, if it’s too thick, add a little bit more milk or water. Oh, it’s a bit gloopy that look. Give me a splash more milk in there. Look. Don’t stress. Give it a stir up. It’ll go in. Try not to splash everywhere. There you go. Look at that. Beautiful. [Applause] No hassle, no problem. [Applause] Grab the bowl with your pasta and your broccoli in in there with your chicken. Give it a little one of those. We want to turn over on there. Get it in. Right. We want all that sauce in there. Oh, I tell you what we want to do. We want to stir in a little pinch of nutmeg. Of course we do. Come on. A little bit of nutmeg in there. That’s going to give us some super flavor. In we go. Oh yeah, there you go. That was easy enough, wasn’t it? Okay, all that in there. And then we’re going to give it a good stir up. Good stir in. Come on. [Applause] Oh yeah. Look at that thing. Sensational. That is incredible. Okay, bring in the dish that you’re going to use. Now, I got this thing and I’m going to put a little bit of olive oil in there. You don’t have to. You don’t have to oil anything out. It’s just old school. We just tend to do it for some reason. You know, you can use butter, anything like that. Right, we want that lot in there. [Applause] Someone’s going to ask this is about a 9 by. All we got to do is get some mozzarella on there. Now, this is mozzarella, but it’s not white. It’s yellow. I have no idea. Okay. A little bit of parmesan on there. It actually looks like cheddar. Anyway, not to worry. Right. A little bit of pepper over the top for me. And that goes in the oven about 30 minutes. Come on. Until it’s all melted and golden. Okay. When you’ve had your time. Oh, come on. Look at that beautiful dish. Oh, yeah. On there. That smells absolutely amazing. There you go. That’s our chicken Alfredo bake with our broccoli and pen. Oh, yes. Please give it five and we’re going to serve it up. Come on. We are in. Oh yeah. Oh boiling in there. [Applause] on there. Oh, yes, please. And on there with a little bit of crusty, buttered crusty. Look at that. That is an absolutely awesome meal. That’s our chicken Alfredo bake with broccoli and pen. There you go. Now, I was going to push it up with a little bit of parsley. So we will. There you go. Oh, this is absolutely superb in there. That’s a bit warm, is it? Look at that. It’s steaming away. Might not shove that all in my gobbit. One go. Nice bit of broccoli. Oh. Oh, that is delightful. Come on in here for a bit of pasta and our sauce. Oh, you’ve got that hint of garlic in there. It’s creamy. Bit of cheese. You got that underlying u nutmeg. That is delicious. That is red hot. Well, there you go. That is absolutely superb. That’s an easy tree bait using cooked chicken. It’s absolutely delightful. But, you know, it’s a little bit plain jame for me to be honest. You got that flavor through there, you know, but this is crying out for a good heap teaspoon of English mustard stirred in the sauce. Oh, delicious. [Applause] You know, even Djon will actually do it. Well, you can see it’s it is absolutely delicious. Wants a bit more flavor for me. It wants the mustard. There you go. If you like what we’re doing, that is a fantastic easy bake to do in the oven. Tell all your friends how easy that is. If you do like what we’re doing, big thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, ring that bell, and we’ll catch you in the next video. M. That is gorgeous.

39 Comments

  1. Looks delish. I’m intimidated by the addition of nutmeg, but, I’ll try it & I’d add some sliced mushrooms. I’m inspired to try this 😃

  2. A nice simple quick dish even for the fussy ones too. I add parsley and corn as well and a little of breadcrumbs on top to make crusty.
    I havent made this for a while so THANKYOU for adding this. 🇦🇺

  3. Nothing like a dollop of English Mustard in a cheesy sauce😋💖😋. That's tomorrow's dinner sorted 😅. Thanks Rik❤😊❤.

  4. That looks great, Chef Rik! I might make it soon, and add cauliflower along with the broccoli! Two of my favorite veggies – how could it go wrong?!

  5. I'll never forget the time I took my girlfriend home to meet the family. My wife got really upset and angry🙂. Fantastic dish Rikmeister! just when I thought you'd done every chicken dish imaginable😋

  6. I'm medically retired and you would be surprised how many of your recipes I prepare for my wife and other family members Rik.

    You do such a great job in constructing your masterpiece recipes. Thank you so much for the upload and of course your time. You're incredible

    and have such a giving and caring heart. Blessings ! 👍🏼

  7. A splash more milk 🙈😂 I don't like pasta very much, but that looks so good, you are making me feel hungry. You can't beat some mustard in a sauce when cheese is involved 😁 I will give it a try, thanks Rik 😊

  8. Whole grain mustard really brings out the flavour of cheese. I nearly always put it in cheese sauce. Pasta bakes are perfect for this time of year. xx

  9. A bit of Stilton cheese in the sauce would perk it up a bit too, looks delicious Rik, thanks for your great recipes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  10. Thank you for using a big bowl instead of trying to mix it all in the dish that drives me crazy. I love nutmeg in alfredo!

  11. Looks delicious! I'd bet a creamy mushroom sauce would work too, if one likes mushrooms.

  12. I've bought the oven so I can cook larger amounts for the family Rik. I've set myself on another job but it won't be long before they are finding time too, to make meals 'your way'. Thank you so much. ❤

  13. I just gained 10 lbs by watching this video lol… Worth it!! Love your content, Rik. Many thanks, please keep it coming. "Look at that!" 😊❤

  14. 👁️🫶🏼👁️
    Something new Chef …
    Sounds like a plan for the future … Thanksgiving turkey leftovers…?
    Thanks again…

  15. Thank you Rik for a great video. I just came back to the store with all the ingredients for this, and now this is 1 of my 2 chicken dishes for the week (got a giant bag of broccoli for $6, good for at least 3 meals). Have a good chunk of Parmesan for months waiting for a good dish to make!
    God Bless!

  16. I've seen a few of Rik's videos now. Most of them he goes through a load of superlatives – fantastic, beautiful, delightful. But in the last 2-3 he's told us how they could be improved and what he'd do differently. As one who experiments a lot with cooking, I really appreciate this. As a guy I once worked with said: A man who never made mistakes, never made anything..

  17. Just so many dishes to make,I need more days in the week. I shared a cooking top with the prep cooks at work,they watched me make bechamel the same way as you do in a few minutes,but still they stood there for 20 mins drizzling in drops of milk,never understood that! I watched people doing things more efficiently than I did,and you better believe I started doing the same thing immediately. I think Dijon would be more to my taste,never liked Colmans,but as you say we are all different.😊