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This lemon parmesan chicken Alfredo recipe is a delicious and decadent way to enjoy pasta! The sauce is irresistibly creamy with plenty of lemon and garlic! Ready in less than half an hour.
Try my Creamy Chicken Lasagna next for more irresistible comfort food.
This chicken fettuccine Alfredo recipe has been updated since it was originally published – I made some modifications to make it simpler.
This is your classic chicken Alfredo recipe with a touch of lemon! I love how lemon adds some brightness to this dish.
It’s still rich, but the lemon adds some much-needed freshness in my opinion.
I don’t know about you, but after the clocks changed, I started really craving sleep and carb-loaded foods. And by 6 pm it felt like midnight last week. Ugh.
Happens every year. There’s already been snow here for a few weeks (yes really), and that’s when I go through a bit of a phase.
Thus, meals like this lemon garlic parmesan chicken recipe were born!! And not a moment too soon.
I’m attempting to get back to my usual healthier habits, but just let me have this lemon parmesan chicken pasta, ok? 😉
This recipe will help take your winter blues away. Mind you, this would be good any time of year.
Looking for other easy lemon chicken recipes? Try my creamy lemon stuffed shells recipe, my creamy lemon chicken, or my lemon chicken orzo soup.
I’m quite picky when it comes to the consistency of creamy pasta sauces. I don’t like watery cream sauces. Those make me sad. The chicken in this recipe is coated with flour, which helps to thicken up the sauce fast, so you don’t have to worry about overcooking the chicken.
I went fairly conservative on the lemon in this sauce, so feel free to add more. I occasionally get comments that a sauce of mine has too much lemon, so I am trying to err on the side of suggesting to readers that they can add more if needed.
Love Alfredo sauce? Try these recipes:
- Easy Shrimp Alfredo
- Chicken Tortellini Alfredo
- 15 Minute Creamy Alfredo Gnocchi
- Quick & Easy Alfredo Sauce
- Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo
Hope you decide to make this garlic chicken Alfredo recipe! Let me know in the comments below if you did or if you have any questions. 🙂
Do you crave more carbs when the weather gets cooler, or is it just me?
Lemon Parmesan Chicken Alfredo Recipe
Ingredients
- 8 ounces uncooked fettuccine pasta
- 2 chicken breasts cut into bite-size pieces
- Salt & pepper to taste
- Flour for dredging
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/4 cup chicken broth (or use dry white wine)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 3 large cloves garlic minced
- 2 dashes Italian seasoning
- 1 cup heavy/whipping cream
- 1/2 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
- Fresh parsley chopped, to taste
Instructions
- Boil a large, salted pot of water for the pasta, and cook according to package directions.
- Prep your chicken and sprinkle it with salt & pepper. Dredge each piece in the flour.
- Add the butter to a skillet over medium-high heat.
- Once the butter is melted and hot, add the chicken to the pan. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove chicken from pan.
- Add the chicken broth, lemon juice, Dijon mustard, garlic, and Italian seasoning to the pan. Give it a good stir.
- Add the cream and parmesan cheese to the pan. Let it bubble for a minute or so.
- Add the chicken back into the pan and let it simmer for 4-5 minutes or until the chicken has cooked and the sauce has further reduced. You may need to turn the heat down if it's bubbling furiously.
- Give the sauce a taste, and if it doesn't have enough lemon juice, add a bit more in. Season with salt & pepper as needed and sprinkle fresh parsley on top.
- Drain pasta and toss with the chicken Alfredo sauce (add in some pasta water prior to draining the pasta if the sauce needs to be thinned a bit).
Notes
- I don't recommend using half-and-half or milk instead of the heavy cream; the lemon juice is likely to break the sauce.
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Awesoooooome!!! Tasty, juicy, filling and some, you name it. I tripled the recipe so we can have it for a few days. Everybody in my family loved it. Thank you.
I’m so happy you all liked it! 🙂 Thanks for leaving me a review!
Fed it to my group of 5 adults, and there was plenty, and a few had second helpings. We all thought it delightful. I followed the instructions exactly, though used rotini noodles. Added a little more lemon juice and some pasta water, as it thickened up quickly. It’s a pleasant mild flavor overall, I think kids would enjoy it.
I’m so happy that it was a hit! Thanks for letting me know! XO
The recipe is awesome but the order of doing things is exceedingly dumb. I wish I had made the chicken separately and never added it to the sauce bc it ruined the chicken crust obtained through dredging. Btw dredging means coating in flower (I had to look it up). Additionally the chicken soaked up.all the sauce for the pasta.
In short, delicious recipe, poorly thought out execution.
Perfection! I’m typing this as I stuff my face with this! Thank you!
Haha that’s what I like to hear! 🙂
Loved this recipe but found it needed a bit more thickening and more liquid in general. I upped the chicken stock and cream and added some more white wine. If I had put all the garlic in I think it would have been overpowering. Will definitely be having this recipe again.
So glad you enjoyed it, Jill!
Made this for supper tonight and it was awesome!! This will be my new go to sauce recipe it is so easy. Yum 😊
I’m so happy to hear that!! Thanks for letting me know!
OMG….. this recipe absolutely SO GOOD. I can’t wait make it again sometime for dinner…. This Alfredo recipe is so tasty that my little cousin whose picky eater ate it and she loves it.
I really like this recipe I might try with shrimp…
I’m so happy that you liked it, Annie! Thanks so much for leaving me a comment!
Is there a video for this recipe
Sorry – not for this one!
I can’t wait to make this! My family loves every recipe I have made of your’s, and this will elevate my Alfredo big time!!!!
Aww that’s so nice to hear! Hope you like it, Beth 🙂
What’s pasta water?
The boiling water that the pasta is cooked in.
Holy moly!!! I stumbled on this and your blog last night, and I couldn’t wait!! I made this for dinner tonight, and wow! It was so easy, so flavorful, and all around amazing!!!
I think this is going into my regular rotation, I’m never using jarred again!!
Thank you!!
Yay!! I’m so pleased you liked it, Sarah!! Thanks for letting me know.
This absolutely looks like my kind of meal. Comforting, cheese, and tasty are all words that describe how I feel about how this looks.
Aw thanks!