Chicken Manicotti With Chive Cream Sauce
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 12 packaged dry manicotti
- 1 (8 ounce) container soft cream cheese, with chives and onion (this is like the spreadable bagel cheese)
- 2⁄3 cup milk
- 1⁄4 cup grated romano cheese or 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
- 2 cups chopped, cooked chicken
- 1 (10 ounce) package frozen chopped broccoli, thawed and drained
- 1 ounces jars roasted red sweet peppers, drained and sliced or (4 ounce) jar diced pimentos, drained
- 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper
- paprika, to taste
directions
- Cook manicotti according to package directions and also cool manicotti shells according to package directions.
- Drain shells; rinse with cold water.
- Drain again.
- Meanwhile, for sauce, in small heavy saucepan melt cream cheese over medium-low heat, stirring constantly.
- Slowly add milk, stirring until smooth.
- Stir in romano or parmesan cheese.
- Remove from heat.
- For filling, in a medium mixing bowl stir together 3/4 cup of sauce, the chicken, broccoli, red sweet peppers or pimento and pepper.
- Using a small spoon, carefully fill each manicotti shell with about 1/3 cup of filling.
- Arrange the filled shells in a 3-quart rectangular baking dish.
- Pour the remaining sauce over shells.
- Sprinkle with paprika.
- Cover with foil.
- Bake in a 350 degree oven for 25 to 30 minutes or until heated through.
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Reviews
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Loved the cream cheese chive sauce in this dish! It was easy and sooo good! I can think of all sorts of variations on this dish. Manicotti noodles can be a challenge to work with. I think I'd use lasagna noodles and layer the ingredients or I could put this over egg noodles or over rice. I tried this dish on two guys painting the outside of our cottage. They sincerely said that they would be guinea pigs for me any time I wanted to cook. DH enjoyed this one too. We're not pimento or bell pepper fans, so I carmelized some onion to use in the place of these ingredients. Make sure your chicken and brocolli are chopped fairly small.
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I have never ate nor cooked manicotti before, so this was a first for me the whole way around. I love the idea of the cream cheese, which seemed like a simple additive. My husband absolutely loved it, but to me seemed a little dry (remember, i've never had it before) He assured me that is what the texture is supposed to me. But either way, the taste was delicious. Will be making again! Thanks for the great recipe!
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Gingerbear
United States
Me and my boyfriend have been together for 11 years now. We live on 40 acres and have 6 dogs and 4 Tennessee Walkers. We both work a lot of hours so there is never enough time in a day to get everything done. I absolutely love the outdoors. I also enjoy lifting weights, reading and playing with all of my beautiful animals. I absolutely love, love and love to cook. I like to cook a variety of things and also like love to bake. I like to just get in the kitchen and experiment with different things. If something does not turn out for me such as pie crust or gravy I will keep trying until I can make it work. Only problem is, when I finally make it work it may not work again the time after that. It is fun though and I do consider myself a pretty good cook for the most part. I also love slow cooker recipes. Those are my most favorite in the winter months.