20-minute Chicken & Broccoli Macaroni

20-minute Chicken & Broccoli Macaroni

Ingredients
  

  • 12 oz macaroni or other small pasta about 2 ½ cups
  • 1 bunch broccoli
  • 1 lb boneless skinless chicken
  • 3 tbsp all purpose flour
  • 2 1/2 cups milk
  • 1 tub flavoured Canadian cream cheese light or regular (sun-dried tomato, roasted red pepper, vegetable), 8 oz
  • 2 tbsp red or white wine vinegar
  • salt and pepper

Instructions
 

  • In large pot of boiling, salted water, cook pasta for about 8 min.
  • Meanwhile, cut broccoli into small florets. Trim stems and cut into slices.
  • Cut chicken into 2” chucks; set aside.
  • Stir broccoli into pasta in pot and cook for 1 minute. Drain and set aside.
  • Whisk flour into Milk and pour into same pot stirring constantly for about 5 minutes or until sauce is thickened and chicken is just slightly pink inside.
  • Reduce heat to low, add cream cheese and return pasta and broccoli to pot.
  • Stir gently until chicken is no longer pink inside, cream cheese is melted and pasta is heated.
  • Stir in vinegar and season to taste with salt and pepper.
Keyword Chicken