Healthy Chicken Tetrazzini Recipe - My Natural Family (2024)

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This is the best ever healthy chicken tetrazzini recipe with mushrooms, and herbs. It's a quick put together in a one-dish meal. This whole grain Clean Eating tetrazzini pasta is a simple dish for everyone to enjoy.

Anyone can make this recipe (as long as they have all the ingredients that it calls for). It calls for simple ingredients and you just cook the noodles and put it all together into one casserole dish and bake it for 25 to 30 minutes and you have a meal everyone can enjoy together!

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Everyone does meal prep differently, but I want to share a little about what we kind of do to make sure we are prepared for meals. Once a week we try to do all the shopping we need at various stores so hopefully (but doesn't always happen) we don't have to keep going back to the store. We decide what we want to eat each day for meals of the week and write it down and then make a grocery list based off of that.

We make sure to check what we have leftover in the fridge that we can use for meals as well. Then we go shopping for all the food we need for that week. When we get home we try to do any food prep we need to do, for example, portion sizing or cutting up veggies or fruit for snacks. This way the rest of the week goes so much smoother and we can enjoy more time in the week to relax and not stress about meal prepping so much.

If you really want to, you can leave the mushrooms out of this recipe. Seems like everyone I know either loves or hates mushrooms. Since my husband hates mushrooms, I usually make one small pan for him without the mushrooms and he likes it fine. Although, I do think he's missing out!

For this tetrazzini recipe, I love that I can make it the night before or in the morning and then throw it in the oven when we are ready to eat!

Everyone does something different. What do you do in your home to make mealtime simpler?

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Healthy Chicken Tetrazzini Recipe with Mushrooms and Herbs

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  • Author: Rebecca Baron
  • Prep Time: 20 minutes
  • Cook Time: 35 minutes
  • Total Time: 55 minutes
  • Yield: 8 1x
  • Category: Main Course
  • Cuisine: Clean Eating

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Description

This tetrazzini recipe with chicken is so cheesy and comforting. I love the mushroom, chicken, butter, onion, thyme and cheeses together. My kids love this!

Ingredients

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  • 1 pound Whole Grain Linguine Noodles (dry)
  • 4 Tbl Grass-fed Butter
  • 1 Large Sweet Onion (chopped)
  • 2 Cups Cremini Mushrooms (sliced)
  • 1 ½ Tbl Fresh Thyme (chopped)
  • 1 ½ tsp Sea Salt
  • Ground Pepper (to taste)
  • ⅓ Cup Whole Wheat Flour
  • 2 Cups Chicken Broth
  • 1 Cup Organic Whole Milk
  • ¾ Cup Organic or Natural Sour Cream
  • 2 Chicken Breasts (cooked and thinly sliced (keep warm)
  • 1 ½ Cups Monterey Jack Cheese (grated)
  • ½ Cup Parmesan Cheese (grated)

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease a 9x13 baking dish.
  2. Fill a large pot half way full with water.
  3. Season with 1 tablespoon of salt and bring to a boil.
  4. Add the linguine noodles, and give a quick stir. Cook according to package instructions, or until al dente.
  5. While the pasta is cooking, add the butter to a large saute pan and melt over medium/high heat. Once melted, add the onion, mushroom, thyme, pepper, and sea salt. Saute until the onions and mushrooms are lightly golden brown, about 5 minutes.
  6. Add the flour and stir into the vegetables. Cook for 1 minute.
  7. Pour in 1 cup of the chicken broth and stir until smooth and thickened.
  8. Add the remaining chicken broth and the milk. Stir until smooth. Once the sauce thickens, remove from heat.
  9. Taste the sauce and add more salt, if desired.
  10. Stir in the sour cream.
  11. Gently stir in the sliced chicken.
  12. When the pasta is finished cooking, drain the water and place pasta back in pot.
  13. Pour the sauce over the pasta and toss until the pasta is well coated in sauce.
  14. Place the noodle mixture in the prepared baking dish.
  15. Sprinkle both cheeses over the top of the noodles and place on the middle rack of the preheated oven.
  16. Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until the sauce is bubbling and cheese is melted.

Keywords: healthy, cheesy, comforting

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  1. Jill

    I want to try this. All that cheese looks really good.

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Healthy Chicken Tetrazzini Recipe - My Natural Family (2024)

FAQs

What is chicken Tetrazzini sauce made of? ›

What you need for creamy Chicken Tetrazzini Sauce. Here's what you need to make the cream sauce for Chicken Tetrazzini: butter, flour, chicken broth/stock, milk, cream and cheese. The basis of Tetrazzini sauce is a béchamel sauce.

How do you reheat chicken Tetrazzini in the oven? ›

Oven Reheating for Optimal Results

The oven should be preheated to 350°F. Cover the casserole with aluminum foil to prevent the top from browning too quickly and to retain moisture. Heat the Chicken Tetrazzini for about 20-30 minutes, or until the internal temperature reaches 165°F.

How do you thicken Tetrazzini sauce? ›

Pro tips for this recipe

You can leave out the chicken and use vegetable stock to make this vegetarian. When making the sauce add the liquids (stock, milk, and cream) in gradually allowing the mixture to thicken each time. The sauce thickens much quicker this way.

What is this pink sauce stuff? ›

Ingredients disclosed on the Pink Sauce website include water, sunflower seed oil, raw honey, distilled vinegar, garlic, pitaya or dragon fruit, pink Himalayan sea salt, dried spices, lemon juice, milk, and citric acid.

Why is it called Chicken Tetrazzini? ›

We love a dish with a good back story and the reason for why is it called chicken Tetrazzini tops the charts. It is supposedly named for Italian opera singer Luisa Tetrazzini, and was made by the chef at her hotel in the early 1900s.

Why is it called tetrazzini? ›

The dish is named after the Italian opera star Luisa Tetrazzini. The origins of tetrazzini are widely disputed. Some accounts ascribe tetrazzini as a creation of Auguste Escoffier.

Why is tetrazzini called that? ›

It is indeed an American dish named for an Italian opera star, Luisa Tettrazini, famous at the beginning of the 20th century. It was widely believed to have been created by Louis Abargast in 1908 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Other sources claim it came from the Knickerbocker Hotel in New York in 1908.

What happens if you don't reheat chicken properly? ›

Chicken is fine to reheat as long as you get it piping hot The Food Safety Information Council told SBS that it's okay to reheat chicken, as long as you get it up to 80º. If you don't get it as hot as that, the bacteria that gives you food poisoning won't be killed.

Is it safe to reheat a casserole twice? ›

If food has been hygienically prepared, cooled quickly after cooking (or reheating) and stored cold, reheating more than once should not increase the risk of illness. However, prolonged storage and repeated reheating will affect the taste, texture, and sometimes the nutritional quality of foods.

How do you crisp soggy fried chicken? ›

To reheat fried chicken in the oven, the best method is to turn the oven on high and bake it fast. Preheat the oven to 400°F, and place room-temperature leftovers on a wire rack set on a baking sheet. The wire rack helps hot air circulate to crisp up the underside of the chicken.

Why is it called chicken Tetrazzini? ›

We love a dish with a good back story and the reason for why is it called chicken Tetrazzini tops the charts. It is supposedly named for Italian opera singer Luisa Tetrazzini, and was made by the chef at her hotel in the early 1900s.

Why is it called Tetrazzini? ›

The dish is named after the Italian opera star Luisa Tetrazzini. The origins of tetrazzini are widely disputed. Some accounts ascribe tetrazzini as a creation of Auguste Escoffier.

What is creamy pasta sauce called? ›

While bechamel sauce is made with milk and flour, alfredo sauce is mainly made with heavy cream and cheese. Both have a creamy texture that thoroughly coats pasta noodles, but bechamel tends to be thicker than alfredo sauce.

What is cream pasta sauce called? ›

Types of pasta sauce with cream and butter
  • Alfredo. A good alfredo sauce starts with generous amounts of both cream and butter to create a thick, wholesome sauce that pairs well with a long noodle such as linguine. ...
  • Brown butter sauce. ...
  • Burro. ...
  • Cacio e pepe. ...
  • Carbonara.
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