If there is one thing that every Crazy Busy Mama needs, it is an easy 15 minute skillet meal! This Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta dish is perfect for those nights when you get home at dinner time and you need to have a meal ready stat. Let me tell you, skillet meals like this Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta are an absolute lifesaver for those nights.
Isn’t life so much easier for mamas when everything goes according to plan? Well if you are a crazy busy mama like me, I’ll bet you just laughed. Because let’s be real, once you have children, it feels like nothing quite goes according to plan. I know that is hard for some of the mamas that thrive with a detailed plan, but some of the most beautiful moments in life are those that you don’t plan. The moments that just fall perfectly together and you find your family genuinely enjoying each other and themselves! I mean that is a God thing for sure, I sometimes wonder if he just gives a knowing smile about our “plans.” But HE knows our life before we do, he makes plans to give us hope. We just have to walk with HIM and trust in his plans for us.
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11
Now that is not to say we don’t need to plan somethings, like the saying goes…. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. You have to plan things like sports and activity schedules, activities and so many more things as a mama. But sometimes no matter how hard we try, those plans change and you have to adapt.
That is when 15 minute skillet meals save the day! I always do my best to do a slow cooker meal if I know we will be out and about until dinnertime. That way when we walk through the door, dinner is ready. But sometimes even on days that we should have been home in time to make a casserole, that doesn’t happen. Such is life. That is when I throw together a skillet meal and dinner is on the table in 15 minutes!!
The first time I made this Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta skillet meal, Kale’s baseball game had gone into extra innings so we were much later than we had planned getting home. And yes, we could have gone through a drive thru but that isn’t an inexpensive meal when you have 6 mouths to feed! And I would always prefer a home cooked meal over fast food any day of the week!! And not just because of the fellowship around the dinner table while eating a home cooked meal (although I love that part too) but also because of the health benefits that come from eating food you have prepared rather than that from a drive thru.
Ingredients for Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta
How to make Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta: ingredients you need!
2 cups cooked chicken
1 package dry ranch seasoning
16 oz penne noodles, uncooked
3½ cups chicken broth
4 ounces cream cheese
4 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
1 tbsp fresh parsley
Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta Video Tutorial
For those of you who would love a visual step-by-step tutorial here is one for you!
How to Make Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta
How to make Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta : a step by step guide
Add 16 oz uncooked penne noodles, 2 cups cooked chicken, Chicken Broth & 1 package ranch seasoning in a skillet. And cook until broth is absorbed by the noodles.
Mix in 4 oz cream cheese, 4 slices of bacon cooked & crumbled, 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese, and 1 tbsp fresh parsley
Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta: SIDE IDEA
This Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta is so yummy served with green beans. You could also serve it along side these incredibly tasty GREEN BEANS WITH POTATOES here! They are so yummy alone and as a side dish.
Crazy Busy Mama Tip
Get yourself a Microwave Bacon Cooker! You won't regret it! And yes it's crispy too! My Bacon Wizard Wheel holds up to a pound of bacon at a time and I use it all the time. It's little kitchen gadgets like this one that help so much on those Crazy Busy Nights or Mornings! Not to mention, great for teens to use when they want to cook up a few pieces instead frying it up on the stove top.
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Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 cups cooked chicken
- 1 package dry ranch seasoning
- 16 oz penne noodles uncooked
- 3½ cups chicken broth
- 4 ounces cream cheese
- 4 slices bacon cooked and crumbled
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 tbsp fresh parsley
Instructions
- Add 16 oz uncooked penne noodles, 2 cups cooked chicken, Chicken Broth & 1 package ranch seasoning in a skillet.
- cook until broth is absorbed by the noodles.
- Mix in 4 oz cream cheese, 4 slices of bacon cooked & crumbled, 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese, and 1 tbsp fresh parsley
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So easy so quick & so delicious thank you for providing this recipe for my family 💕
This was so easy and very yummy. You know its good when they go back for seconds.
I used a rotisserie chicken I had in my fridge for the chicken in the meal and the chicken broth. I boiled down my rotisserie carcass and made my own chicken broth. I recommend this for an easy comfort meal.