Cheesy Spinach Dip Chicken Pasta – your new favorite dinner! Spinach dip and pasta get together to create one cheesy and creamy dish! You need to make it!
Serves: serves 4 to 6
Ingredients- 2 and ½ cups uncooked penne rigate
- 2 chicken breasts
- salt
- pepper
- 2 Tablespoons all-purpose flour
- ½ cup sour cream (or Greek yogurt)
- 4 oz. cream cheese, softened
- ¼ cup half and half or whole milk
- 1 pkg dry Ranch mix
- 5 oz. frozen spinach or half of a batch of fresh
- 1 and ¼ cup shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Butter a 2 quart baking dish. Set aside.
- Cook pasta according to the instructions on the packaging. Drain and keep warm.
- Dice chicken, season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle flour over chicken and toss to coat.
- Heat olive oil in a large skillet. Add chicken and cook until no longer pink.
- Meanwhile, in a large mixing bowl, mix together sour cream, cream cheese, Ranch mix, half and half and spinach.
- Add cooked pasta and chicken to the spinach mixture and stir all together. Transfer the mixture into the prepared dish.
- At this point, you can cover the dish with saran wrap and refrigerate until ready to serve.
- If serving right away, top the dish with cheese and bake for 10 minutes at 375 degree F oven. The cheese should be melted. You can then turn the oven to broiler (on low setting) and broil for 2 to 3 minutes or until the cheese bubbles up and gets golden brown spots.
Let stand in room temperature for 10 minutes before serving.
