Baked Pasta With Chicken and Pepper Jack

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This crockery isn't for dieters, but it is simply a assemblage pleaser that tin beryllium prepared successful the greeting and baked astatine night. The look calls for cooked chicken, truthful you tin dine virtuously the nighttime earlier connected grilled, roasted oregon broiled chickenhearted and splurge the adjacent nighttime connected this.

If the adults successful the location find mac and food bland, this volition alteration their minds. The capsicum Jack is spicy and full-flavored -- truthful spicy, successful fact, that it's champion to usage fractional Jack and fractional mild cheddar. If you similar your nutrient truly hot, usage each capsicum Jack.

Refrigerate for up to 3 days.

The crockery tin beryllium prepared up to 12 hours successful beforehand and refrigerated earlier baking. Place the refrigerated pan, covered with foil, successful a acold oven, acceptable the oven to 350 degrees and statesman baking. After 30 minutes, region the foil and cook for 15 to 20 minutes, until the crockery is bubbly astir the edges and starting to brown.

From Nourish columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Ingredients

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Servings: 6-8

  • Nonstick cooking spray
  • 8 ounces dried fusilli oregon rotelle (corkscrew) pasta
  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 4 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 2 cups to 2 1/2 cups low-fat milk, warmed and divided
  • 1/8 spoon good salt
  • 4 ounces capsicum jack cheese, grated (1 cup)
  • 4 ounces mild cheddar, grated (1 cup)
  • 8 ounces cooked white-meat chicken, chopped into stubby matchsticks 1 inch long, 1/2 inch heavy (2 cups)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 8)

  • Calories

    350

  • Fat

    16 g

  • Saturated Fat

    9 g

  • Carbohydrates

    28 g

  • Sodium

    270 mg

  • Cholesterol

    70 mg

  • Protein

    22 g

  • Fiber

    1 g

  • Sugar

    1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Nourish columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Tested by Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Published August 31, 2010

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Updated March 13, 2026

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