Olive garden chicken broccoli fettuccine alfredo recipe

Q: What is Olive Garden alfredo sauce made of?

Olive Gardens Alfredo Sauce recipe is made with Parmesan and Romano Cheeses, however you can also incorporate Mozzarella, Gruyere, Gouda, or Asiago. You can also just use Parmesan. You can use half and half instead of half heavy cream/half milk.

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"My mother is a lover of Italian food,she really wanted this recipe after seeing the olive garden commercial.I finally found it online,printed it and attempted to try it.It is a great recipe,but unfortunatly,the steps did not include some important steps.So I dediced to pass along the easiest way to prepare this.I must say,this was a huge success.This serves 4 people,so you may double it to feed more of course 8) Good luck and enjoy it!"

Ready In:

1hr

Ingredients:

ingredients

1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast
2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
4 1⁄2 ounces fettuccine pasta
1 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons butter
2 teaspoons garlic, minced
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1 cup broccoli floret
2 tablespoons parmesan cheese
black pepper
salt

directions

First, cook the Broccoli.
In a medium saucepan, cook the chicken in the olive oil, letting each side brown.
Leave remaining oil drippings in pan, setting the chicken aside for now.
In salted walter, boil the pasta, not quite all the way, (it will be simmered later).
Drain the pasta, and place it back into pot.
In the remaining olive oil from chicken, over medium, brown the garlic.
When caremelized, add the heavy cream & cornstarch and stir well.
Stir once in a while, allowing the sauce to thicken.
When prepared, add the sauce to the pasta combining fettuccini pasta.
Chop the chicken into cubes, toss in into pasta, add broccoi.
Combine well, add in salt and pepper and the cheese.
Enjoy!
Remember, this is 4 servings, you may double.

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I appreciate the effort put forth to post this recipe. I typically like to start with something positive prior to any negative feedback. I apologize in advance if my review comes across harsh, it isn't my intent. Unfortunately I was really dissapointed in this recipe. :( My husband and I order Chicken Con Broccoli every time we go to the Olive Garden. I do not feel like this was even remotely close to it. :( I feel the instructions should of elaborated more then "cook the broccoli". I boiled my fresh broccoli and feel that steaming would of been a better choice for appearance and texture. Secondly, the cooking of the chicken....if my memory serves me right the chicken is thinly slice chicken and has a light breading of sorts on it. In the directions it suggested chopping it up after being cooked and tossed with everything else :(.The selling points for me and this dish has always been the orrcheta pasta and lightly breaded chicken. This had neither of them. :( I do not recommend this recipe if you are looking for a copycat recipe.
Having worked at OG and practically living off this stuff, i didnt feel it was close at all. I was more of an alfredo sauce than a con broccoli. I did think it was very yummy just not what i wanted.
We tried this for dinner and found it quite bland, even doing as other reviewers suggested and using the chilli flakes. It was just ok. Sorry.
I just made this and it is really really close to the original! You do have to put in the red pepper flakes to give it an authentic taste because it is in the original. I also used shell pasta because I was trying to get as close as possible to the orriechiete pasta that is in the original dish and that was the closest pasta I had. The instructions did not say when to put in the butter, so I put it in with the simmering garlic. Very good, worth a try for sure! I really enjoyed this dish! Thanks for sharing!

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What is Olive Garden alfredo sauce made of?

Olive Garden's Alfredo Sauce recipe is made with Parmesan and Romano Cheeses, however you can also incorporate Mozzarella, Gruyere, Gouda, or Asiago. You can also just use Parmesan. You can use half and half instead of half heavy cream/half milk.

Does Olive Garden use real chicken?

"All across the board, they changed their chicken about six years ago from good chicken to chicken that's not so great," Newsweek reported the former employee said. "It's not 100 percent chicken, and the chicken that comes on the never-ending pasta bowl is actually canned chicken.