Parmesan Crusted Chicken

For my internship I worked at a Reception center called White Willow, located in Provo, UT! It is a great place and I loved it there. This Parmesan crusted chicken was one of my favorite things that we made there. At White Willow we made it with roasted potatoes but I think it's wonderful with any side, especially pasta! I made this as one of the Entrees that I served at the Graduation party with Anniversary Bow-tie Pasta and my Easy Garlic Breadsticks.

Parmesan crusted chicken

Ingredients:

Chicken

1-2 bags of garlic croutons crushed in a food processor or blender

Shredded Parmesan cheese

Caesar dressing

Creamy Italian dressing

Instructions:Mix equal parts of the dressings together.

Mix bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese together.

Dredge chicken in dressings and then in crumb mixture.

 Bake at 350 degrees for 30-45 min

Anniversary Bow-tie Pasta

Anniversary Bow-tie pasta

Adapted from Favorite family Recipes

Ingredients:

1pkg. Bow tie pasta

1/2c. Butter

2-3 cloves of garlic, minced

3/4c grated Parmesan cheese

2 chicken bouillon cubes

1 pint heavy cream

Salt & pepper to taste

1/2lb bacon, crumbled

Toasted pine nuts to taste

Instructions:Boil pasta until al dante. Don't overcook. In a wok or heavy skillet melt butter. Sauté garlic for a min. or so and add Parmesan cheese and bouillon cubes. When bouillon cube is dissolved, slowly stir in cream and S&P. Add cooked pasta to cream sauce and toss until covered. Sprinkle with crumbled bacon,pine-nuts and Parmesan cheese. Toss together and serve.

Serve with Parmesan Crusted Chicken, and  Roasted Asparagus or Green beans.

Easy Garlic Breadsticks

These are so fantastic and easy if you don't want to make your own dough. My family always had Rhodes rolls so this was a easy way to have something different than just your basic roll!

Easy Garlic Bread sticks

Ingredients: 

Rhodes rolls

melted or room temp.butter

garlic powder

Italian spices

Parmesan cheese

 Instructions:

• Let rolls defrost/rise for 1-1 1/2hrs. stretch them out and then holding the ends of both sides twist in opposite directions 

• Mix butter,garlic,Italian spices, and Parmesan cheese to taste. Brush over the top of dough. Spray one side of Plastic wrap with Pam and cover dough and let rise until double in size.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 15 min or until desired brownness. 

I grew up in a family of ranch fanatics so we like to dip them in Ranch but they are delicious with any kind of Italian dipping sauce.