Creamy Sun Dried Tomato Chicken Zoodles in this sauce. THIS SAUCE. Okay. Let me back up for a sec. Sun dried tomatoes and garlic and parmesan cheese infused in a cream based sauce, enveloping crispy, golden pan fried chicken strips and zoodles for the craziest low carb comfort food.
ZOODLES
You don’t need to spend your whole entire pay check on a Zoodle maker. However, if you don’t have one..or can’t find one, you can make fettuccini style ribbons with a normal vegetable peeler.
With minimal ingredients, a beautifully rich and creamy sauce is ready in less that 10 minutes with the extra addition of extra sun-dried tomatoes, a tonne of parmesan, red chilli flakes and dried basil.
Simply add your Zoodles for a healthy take on pasta (or add pre-cooked pasta if you like), and dinner is done!
Serve this, and you’re family and friends won’t miss pasta. They won’t even be mad at you.
Creamy Sundried Tomato + Parmesan Chicken Zoodles
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 ½ lb skinless chicken thigh fillets cut into strips
- 4 oz fresh semi-dried tomato strips in oil chopped *See Notes
- 3.5 oz jarred sun dried tomatoes in oil chopped
- 4 cloves garlic peeled and crushed
- 1 ¼ cup thickened cream reduced fat or full fat (or half and half)
- 1 cup shaved Parmesan cheese
- 1 pinch salt to taste
- 1 teaspoon Dried basil seasoning
- ½ teaspoon Red chilli flakes adjust to taste
- 2 large Zucchini made into zoodles or summer squash, use a vegetable grater if you don't have a Zoodle grater
Instructions
- Heat the butter in a pan/skillet over medium high heat. Add the chicken strips and sprinkle with salt. Pan fry until the chicken is golden browned on all sides and cooked through.
- Add both semi-dried and sun dried tomatoes with 1 tablespoon of the oil from the jar (optional but adds extra flavour), and add the garlic; sauté until fragrant. (While the chicken is browning, prepare your Zoodles with a Zoodle maker OR with a normal vegetable peeler.)
- Lower heat, add the cream and the Parmesan cheese; simmer while stirring until the cheese has melted through. Sprinkle over salt, basil and red chilli flakes to your taste.
- Stir through the Zoodles and continue to simmer until the zoodles have softened to your liking (about 5-8 minutes) and serve.
ZGremlin says
Love this recipe! Just made it for a second time but used Hearts of Palm pasta noodles. Works even better than the zoodles IMO. Fantastic recipe!
Kim says
I made this the other night and it was amazing. I added artichokes and sautéed mushrooms as well.
Carol B. says
My family loves this dish and we make it often. I like it better served over spiralized butternut squash. They have a firmer texture than the zucchini. Some capers also add some great flavor to this dish!
Kara Vasquez says
This is SUCH a fabulous, rich, flavorful dish! I love the taste of sun-dried tomatoes and cream together. Tastes like a dish you’d get at a nice restaurant. Definitely would be just as delicious with mushrooms added or substituted for the zoodles and over a chicken breast, but amazing just as written. Thank you!
Karen says
This was the bomb! I tasted the sauce, then added a little cayenne pepper and nutmeg, soooo delish! My husband and I both loved it! Love your website. I made the creamy garlic shrimp last night, which was also delish!!
Maria says
This was absolutely delicious made it for me and my grandma and we both loved it!! Only thing I changed was the cheese, I didn’t have Parmesan and home so I substituted it for Romano and it was great!!
This was the first recipe of yours that I tried and I can’t wait to try more!
Nils K. says
I just prepared this for lunch today.
The result was phenomenal!
One of the best Keto dishes I ever made, a new favorite for sure!
Since I couldn’t find “thickened cream” I substituted with 200g whipped cream (Schlagsahne) + 125g Creme Doublé.
Turned out perfect!
Although with a common potato peeler I just put the fettuccine style zoodles in the same pan, no simmering in water since they turned out too soft, straight in the pan is more like “al dente”… ?
Bodyfiitjo says
I came across your website yesterday whilst searching for low carb dinners and decided to make this dish. I wasn’t too sure about so many sun-dried tomatoes but WOW this dish is absolutely delicious!! I just used the sun dried tomatoes in oil from a jar as I couldn’t find the semi dried ones and I also substituted the cream for mascarpone cheese. This dish is super easy to make but is restaurant quality. Feeding a family of four is never easy but this was voted a real winner by all. If like my family you have a good appetite, add extra chicken!
Giliane says
I made this tonight and it’s delish! I also added mushrooms to it??