# Chipotle Chicken Linguini

This is a creamy, smoky, and ridiculously good chipotle chicken linguini dish.

- Cuisine: Mexican
- Category: Dinner
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 2 lbs chicken breast cutlets
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp pepper
- salt
- 0.25 cup blended chipotle peppers in adobo
- 2 tbsp honey
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 5 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1 pint heavy cream
- 16 oz dry linguini, boiled
- Parmesan cheese
- oil
- greens

## Instructions

1. Season chicken breast with salt, pepper, garlic, and paprika.
2. Blend chipotle peppers in adobo with honey.
3. Massage the chicken pieces with the chipotle and honey mixture.
4. Heat a stainless steel pan until nice and hot.
5. Add oil to the pan when you see a light shimmer.
6. Drop in the chicken and get a nice crust.
7. Transfer the chicken to the oven at 350 degrees to finish cooking.
8. Add chopped onion to the pan to release moisture and scrape the bottom of the pan to deglaze.
9. Once the onions have sweat, add minced garlic.
10. Add grass-fed butter to the pan.
11. Add the same blended chipotle peppers used on the chicken to the pan.
12. Once the mixture looks like a paste, add heavy cream.
13. (Optional) Blitz the sauce to make it nice and creamy.
14. When the sauce lightly bubbles, kill the heat and add Italian snow (Parmesan cheese).
15. Add al dente linguini pasta to the sauce.
16. Slice the cooked chicken and slide it onto the pasta.
17. Finish with a little more Parmesan cheese.
18. Add greens.

## Equipment

- pan
- oven

## Tips

- For the chicken, get a nice crust on the outside and then finish cooking it in the oven.
- The blended chipotle peppers in adobo and honey are used both for seasoning the chicken and for the sauce.
- You can blitz the sauce to make it extra creamy.
- Timing is key so the chicken and pasta finish cooking around the same time.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/p/DVgVGZ7Dpm8/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/18c0c71b-b913-4e53-8683-e284756fca21
- Extracted: 2026-03-25

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