Tortellini with Chicken

Our very own HeyDave submitted this tasty dinner recipe.  Pairing chicken breasts with tortellini is a brilliant combination of two favorite and fast dinner ingredients.  Plus, it's nice to have guys hanging around the blog now and then, especially the cooking kind.  I just wish I knew what on earth swarm of mothra olives are.  I have never seen that kind.

Tortellini with Chicken Recipe

• 1 pkg of cheese tortellini (such as
  DiGiorno)


• 1 chicken breast, trimmed of fat and cut
  into large (1”) cubes


• 1 cup sliced portabella mushrooms (Baby
  Bellas preferred)


• ½ cup sliced green olives (use largest you
  find, be they colossal, giant, swarm of Mothra or whatever)


• ½ cup chicken broth


• Olive oil


• Italian seasoning (dried blend of oregano,
  thyme, basil, rosemary and sage)


• Salt


• Prepared pesto sauce (optional but
  recommended)


• Grated Parmesan cheese (optional)

Begin the water for
the tortellini.  Be sure to add generous
salt to the water; heat until boiling.

Meanwhile, brown
the cubed chicken chunks in a large frying pan over medium heat.  When meat is browned on all sides, add olive
oil (about 2 tablespoons or suitable “glug”) to pan, add sliced mushrooms.  Stir mixture around, cleaning bottom of pan
into mix; sauté mushrooms well.  Add
chicken broth and sliced green olives; add sprinkling of Italian seasoning mix
to desired amount, but not excessively. 
Mix thoroughly, reduce heat to simmer and cover.

Prepare the tortellini per package instructions,
drain.  Place serving in pasta bowl, add
either generous dollop of pesto sauce or olive oil; mix well.  Spoon some chicken mixture onto the
pasta.  The mix should be moist but not
very liquid; use slotted spoon if too much liquid is present.  If using just olive oil, add some grated
Parmesan cheese, but using pesto sauce makes it cheesy enough.

Comments

[Heather]

Dave,Good one -- I esp. like the addition of green olives. Brilliant!Heather

[trevy thomas]

We only allow brilliance here. That and olive lovers.

[heydave]

I was really pleased with the tang that the green olives added. And though it may be a bit of a no-brainer/lazy-ass to use the Italian Seasoning, I like the flavor it adds so easily.

Did I mention easy?