This is an easy and delicious dinner. Only missing is some greenery (like a nice salad with Italian dressing) and maybe some garlic bread.
Cook your pasta (I chose penne), and saute some minced garlic and onion or shallot, in butter with a spot of olive oil, for 3-5 minutes (don't brown it).
Add a good dose of vodka and reduce it down, almost in half.
Add some diced or crushed tomatoes and around the same volume of chicken broth (these were microwave thawed from the freezer).
I microwave thawed (on lowest setting) a frozen chicken breast, then cut it up and breaded it.To bread, salt & pepper the chicken then dust to lightly coat it in flour. Dip in a beaten egg then dip it in bread crumbs (I used Panko with grated parmesan).
Fry over medium high heat, in olive oil (to coat the bottom of the pan) and a tablespoon or so of butter. Flip them with tongs once the first side gets brown like this (4 min?). The second side cooks quickly (maybe 2 min) so keep an eye on them. Remove them to some paper towels to absorb excess oil.
Once your sauce has reduced down to the consistency you like, and it's almost time to eat, remove from heat and add a spot (2 Tb) of heavy cream and mix in. Taste and add more if you'd like.
Taster approved! Topped with kalamata olives.
