Three Cheese Chicken Alfredo Bake – great make-ahead pasta dish. Elbow macaroni, alfredo sauce, sour cream, ricotta, garlic, chicken, eggs, parmesan and mozzarella cheese. SO good!! We make this at least once a month! Can freeze half for later. This is THE BEST pasta casserole we’ve ever eaten!!!
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Pin This RecipeEveryday Southern Living tweets a dinner idea. A few days ago they tweeted about a Three Cheese Pasta Bake for dinner. I checked out the recipe and thought it sounded fantastic! I decided to give it a try – with a few changes.
The original recipe used ziti. I didn’t have any ziti; I only had elbow macaroni. I went with the elbow macaroni and it was fine. I also added chicken to make this more of a meal than a side dish. This was SO good! It was even good reheated the next day for lunch. If you don’t like ricotta, try substituting cottage cheese. I halved the recipe below and it was enough for at least 4 or 5 people.
Three Cheese Chicken Alfredo Bake
Ingredients:
- 1 (16-oz) package penne or elbow macaroni
- 1 (22-oz) jar Alfredo sauce
- 1 (8-oz) container sour cream
- 1 (15-oz) container ricotta cheese
- 2 garlic clove, minced
- 3 cups chopped cooked chicken
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese
- ¼ cup chopped fresh parsley
- 2 cups mozzarella cheese
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Lightly spray 9×13-inch pan with cooking spray.
- Prepare pasta according to package directions; drain and return to pot.
- Stir together all ingredients except mozzarella cheese. Spread mixture into a lightly greased 13- x 9-inch baking dish. Sprinkle evenly with mozzarella cheese.
- Bake uncovered for 30 minutes or until bubbly.
Notes:
Steph
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I have family coming over tonight, and I think this with the broccoli added as someone else suggested might be perfect.
I'd love to make this!! Can you recommend a good jar of Alfredo sauce??
Bertolli is really good.
Made this tonight .. I didn't love the texture. I would've preferred more creamy, but mine chunked up. Leaving out the eggs might have helped?
I think that's true, since eggs are often used as a binder. I like creamy too.
Oh heavens. Seriously, I would stand hunched over the stove and eat this directly out of the casserole dish. My family LOVED it!
I just made this for dinner tonight and it is delicious and very east to make! I had some Hawaiian bread on the side to make the meal complete!
Can anyone recommend a good jar of Alfredo sauce?
I use to make my own, but my daughter said she uses Bertolli so I tried it. Now that's all I use.
I use to make my own, but my daughter said she uses Bertolli, now that's all I use. It is really good.
Jayson – Bacon? YUM! I'm going to try that next time!!
I made this with cottage cheese instead of the ricotta, halved the recipe, used chicken breast that I first seasoned and grilled, THEN cubed….and also added about 8-10 slices of bacon, crumbled up and added in….can you guess how amazing it was? ;-D Thanks!
Gotta try this looks fantastic!!!!
lacostello – absolutely!
Can I make 1 day ahead of time and refrigerate until I bake it?
what makes this even better is the lovely Cinnabar casserole dish from Willow House!!!
Meg – yes, I think you could add broccoli. Fresh or Frozen would work.
I've never frozen it, but I think it would be fine. I always just make half and it is still a ton of food.
Hi! This looks wonderful! I do have 2 questions…1) Do you think you can add broccoil? and if so would you think frozen or fresh and 2) do you think you could make this and just freeze half?
Sorry for the probably simple questions, I'm just pretty new to cooking! 🙂
I just pulled this out of the oven and I am super excited to try it! It made a crap load of food!
Ok, making this today. My cheese hating hubby is out of town…so my girls and I are cooking every cheese meal we can!
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It's true…the mice will play!