Lemon Pepper Chicken Fettuccine

Easy pasta dish that’s so full of flavors, you can’t stop eating it. Chicken breast cooked with lemon pepper spices and served on top of pasta that’s been tossed in lemon pepper sauce.

LEMON PEPPER CHICKEN FETTUCCINE

You ask for an easy dinner and I deliver! Well, I don’t actually deliver the meal but I “deliver” the recipe. It is very easy to make and SO tasty, you will have no trouble with this lemon pepper chicken at all.

It’s lemon pepper seasoned chicken on top of fettuccine that has been cooked in lemon pepper sauce. Lemon pepper seasoning is also homemade. Hubs thought it was so fancy that even the lemon pepper seasoning was homemade but what he didn’t know was that it was only homemade because I simply didn’t have any store-bought in the pantry.

Sometimes my family thinks that I’m all “Martha Stuart” and make homemade everything, but really, most times I just don’t feel like going to the store over one ingredient.

HOW TO MAKE LEMON PEPPER SEASONING

Next time you’re frantically looking for lemon pepper seasoning in your pantry, don’t panic. You can easily make homemade seasoning and there are only 3 ingredients. 

You will need lemons, whole peppercorns or ground black pepper, and coarse salt. 

First thing to do is zest 4 lemons and dry out the zest. Spread lemon zest in a baking sheet, on top of parchment paper. Preheat the oven to 170, which is the lowest setting most oven will go now. Place the baking sheet in the oven and let the lemon zest dry out completely. It takes  about 30 minutes. 

Once lemon zest has dried, combine it with peppercorns and coarse salt in an herb grinder and blend. (Psst, I actually use my coffee grinder as an herb grinder and it works perfectly well.)

Use what you need for the recipe and store the rest in an air-tight glass jar. 

SOME MORE RECIPES TO TRY:

Fettuccine with Bourbon Bacon Sauce

Tomato Basil Sausage Pasta Skillet

Pesto Alfredo Tortellini

One-Pan Fettuccine Alfredo from No. 2 Pencil

One-Pot Chicken Pot Pie Fettuccine from Whole and Heavenly Oven

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Lemon Pepper Chicken Fettuccine

Chicken breast cooked with lemon pepper spices and served on top of pasta that's been tossed in lemon pepper sauce.

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Course dinner, Main Course

Cuisine American, Italian

Keyword chicken, fettuccine, Lemon Pepper, pasta

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 25 minutes

Total Time 35 minutes

Servings 2 servings

Calories 667 kcal

Author Lyuba Brooke

Ingredients

• 1 large chicken breast
• 1 Tbsp lemon pepper seasoning
• Vegetable oil for cooking
• 6-8 oz fettuccine
• Save 3 Tbsp of water from cooking pasta
• 3 Tbsp butter
• 1 large leek
• Salt
• Water from cooking pasta
• 1/3 cup chicken stock
• 2 tsp lemon pepper seasoning
• 1 Tbsp lemon juice
• 2 tbsp Fresh grated Parmesan cheese for topping
• 1 tbsp Green onions for topping

Instructions

1. Cook pasta, drain and set side. Make sure to save a little bit of pasta water.
2. Cut off the dark green leaves off the leek and the very bottom by the roots, discard what you cut off or save it for making homemade vegetable stock. Wash the leeks and cut them length-wise in half. Thinly slice the leek halves into half circles. Set aside.
3. Preheat a medium cooking pan, over medium heat. Add some vegetable oil.
4. Cut chicken breast in half, width-wise, and season each side generously with lemon pepper seasoning.
5. Cook seasoned chicken breasts until done. Take them out of the pan and set aside.
6. In the same cooking pan, add butter and sliced leek and cook until golden, stirring often. Season with a little bit of salt.
7. Once leeks are cooked, add pasta water, chicken stock and lemon juice. Mix well.
8. Add lemon pepper seasoning, mix and taste if you need to add any more salt.
9. Stir in pasta into the sauce and cook for about 5 minutes.
10. Slice chicken and either mix it into the pasta or add it on top of pasta.
11. Grate some Parmesan cheese on top. Add some diced green onion on top as well. Serve immediately.

Recipe Notes

All images and text ©Lyubov Brooke for ©Will Cook For Smiles. Please do not use my images without prior permission. If using my posts in collections and features, please link back to this post for the recipe. Disclaimer: Nutrition information shown is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate as most ingredients and brands have a slight variation.

Nutrition Facts

Lemon Pepper Chicken Fettuccine

Amount Per Serving

Calories 667 Calories from Fat 225

% Daily Value*

Fat 25g38%

Saturated Fat 13g81%

Cholesterol 191mg64%

Sodium 363mg16%

Potassium 806mg23%

Carbohydrates 71g24%

Fiber 5g21%

Sugar 4g4%

Protein 39g78%

Vitamin A 1390IU28%

Vitamin C 10.1mg12%

Calcium 118mg12%

Iron 3.5mg19%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.