Macaroni grill pasta milano could be made right in the comfort of your home. Within a few minutes and with some simple ingredients, your family will sit down to a creamy garlic pasta dish everyone will love in your family.

With a mixture of Alfredo and pesto in the pasta sauce loaded with spinach, mushrooms, and tomatoes this macaroni grill pasta milano recipe makes it an easy and tasty dinner.

Pasta Milano Macaroni Grill Recipe

The Pasta Milano macaroni grill recipe is a rich and tasty pasta meal with so many flavors that blend, is the type of meal that we can enjoy when going out to eat. This Pasta Milano Macaroni Grill-inspired recipe is an enjoyable treat.

Whenever mushrooms and pasta are involved, we are drawn to trying that dish. The tomatoes and spinach are veggies that aid in filling out the dish.

One-skillet meal is made in a minutes like and will satisfy your craving for a restaurant-quality meal at home. You can equally add baked cheesy bread or another fresh bread and butter for a complete meal with pasta.

Tips for Making Pasta Milano

• Farfalle pasta is also known as bowtie pasta

• Shells can be added to farfalle pasta

• It is good to use the fresher refrigerated alfredo and pesto

• Prepare spinach well and if there’s enough liquid in the tomatoes then you can drain some before adding to the skillet in other to avoid a soupy texture

• Importantly, use fresh spinach mushrooms, garlic, and tomatoes for the best flavor profile possible in this meal

• Homemade Italian Sausage can also be added to this meal if desired, as big meat eaters we still really enjoyed this as a vegetarian meal that is very filling.

Basic Ingredients Needed

• Butter
• Farfalle or bowtie pasta
• Fresh garlic
• Fresh mushrooms
• Fresh spinach or baby spinach
• Garlic roasted alfredo sauce
• Pesto
• Red onion
• Roma tomatoes
• Shredded parmesan cheese

Ingredients for Chicken Pasta Milano

• Pasta: A bow tie is preferable here, for this dish but any short noodles can also do.

• Chicken: We are simply cooking this chicken up in the same pan as you will use for the sauce but you could also cook it on the grill, use precooked grilled chicken, or to make things even easier you can use rotisserie chicken. 

• Mushrooms: This gives them an amazing flavor. White or baby Bella work. These are also first sauteed in butter.

• Butter: It is one of the essentials needed for cooking the mushrooms. Olive oil can be used instead.

• Sun Dried Tomatoes: I hereby, approve using the kind packed in oil and draining off as much of the oil as possible.

• Garlic: It is good when using garlic in pasta.

• Half-and-Half Cream: This can also help in creating a light creamy sauce. If you’d like a thicker sauce, use heavy cream.

How to Make Macaroni Grill Pasta Milano

Prepare all of the condiments and permit the spinach to dry and the tomatoes to drain just a bit before starting to cook. I’ve tried to wash and chop condiments as expected in this recipe and I can not keep up.

Fill the pot with water and boil as you cook the veggies, but wait to cook pasta.

Liquefy butter in a skillet using average heat temperature and add diced onions, sliced mushrooms and minced garlic. Cover the skillet and cook until tender. I preferred using a garlic mincer, it is the easiest way to prepare the garlic. 

The moment these condiments are all tender mix tomatoes and cook for some minutes until they are warm. Once these condiments are all tender you can add tomatoes and cook for a couple minutes until they are ready.

You can continue stirring up everything together and then mix the spinach. Since then the spinach wilts using large quantity of leaves of regular spinach is fine. 

Spending a bit more to get young spinach may not be super perceivable in this recipe. However, if there is enough liquid in the skillet you can free it to drain. Notwithstanding, add pasta to the pot and cook to al dente according to the directions on the package.

Finishing the Sauce

Reduce heat to average low then add Alfredo sauce to the skillet and blend everything. Add pesto and blend it well again.

Shave fresh parmesan cheese on the top. Replace the lid with the skillet to expedite the steaming process if desired. Heat through thouroughly.

Cooked and drained pasta may be stirred into this skillet for serving is space allows in your skillet. 

Spoon the sauce over the pasta as the adults crave more sauce and the kids tend to like more pasta with a little sauce.

Freeze any leftovers in an airtight container for about 2  to 4 days. Residue freezes well in an airtight container for up to 3 months. I prefer to freeze individual portions to defrost for a quick lunch as needed.

Bottom Line

Put cream, roasted garlic, pepper, salt, and parmesan cheese in food processor and puree. Place cream mixture in a sauce pan and bring to a boil.

Turn down heat and simmer for some minutes until sauce has thickened. Mix in mushrooms and tomatoes and add to the cooked pasta.