This is a guest article by Mannie Barling and Ashley Brooks

Total Cooking Time: 40 minutes (the first time will probably take longer). The chicken will take about 15 minutes to cook on the grill. The fettuccini takes 17 minutes to cook for organic pasta. We use organic ingredients only, including the pasta. Interestingly, pasta made from genetically modified wheat takes less cooking time – about 9 minutes.

Actual Work Time on Meal: 30 minutes including prep time.

Organic Ingredients:

5 Organic boneless and skinless chicken breasts
2 packages of organic Fettuccini
Frontier Organic White Pepper
½ pound of organic butter (to have on hand as needed)
1 loaf of sourdough rosemary garlic bread
3 large garlic bulbs
3 boxes of organic small white mushrooms or 5 large porcini mushrooms
1 ounce of organic garlic oil for cooking pasta
1 small package of Italian Sweet Basil leaves
4 rosemary branches
1 block of Parmesan Cheese from Italy (organic) (to have on hand for grating)
Organic curry powder
Handful of wood chips – pecan, cherry or alder.
If you have your own Rosemary bush, cut a few sprigs

Prep before Cooking: Take one large frying pan and two medium wide-mouth pans and set them on the stove – one to cook pasta and the other for the sauce. Open packages of chicken and rinse with water before cooking. Sprinkle organic white pepper and curry powder on the chicken breasts. Cut open the fettuccini packages and leave near pan.

Crush 3 whole garlic bulbs and put it into a small bowl over to the side.

Scrub the mushrooms with a mushroom brush. Cut these small white mushrooms into ¼ inch slices. If you use prefer porcini mushrooms, then cut them into ¾ squares. Do not cut the mushrooms too small or they get lost in the sauce.

Cooking: We suggest that you turn your grill on high while you are prepping the chicken. When the chicken is ready to go, throw a handful of wood chips and a few rosemary branches on the grill. Avoid burning or overcooking the chicken.
If the chips catch fire, dose the fire with water as it will create even more smoke. When the grill gets hot, shut off the flame under the chicken, but leave the flame on under the other burners. The object is to smoke the chicken, not overcook it. Cook for only 3 minutes on each side. The chicken will taste best if it smokes for another 4 minutes with no flame.

Tetrazzini Sauce: While the chicken is cooking, pour 2 pints of organic whole cream into one of the sauce pans. Turn heat on medium. Sprinkle white pepper evenly over the entire surface of the cream. Sprinkle curry evenly over half the surface of the cream while warming. Stir both spices into the cream until they dissolve. Stir to avoid boiling the cream. Cut Italian Sweet Basil into small pieces and throw into warm cream. Throw 1½ crushed garlic bulbs into sauce. When it is hot, turn stove down to warm or simmer and cover the pan so it stays hot and reduces (evaporates water) while you are preparing the other ingredients. Be careful cream is sensitive to heat. Don’t let the sauce boil under any circumstances

Heat frying pan and melt ¼ pound of butter in pan. Throw cut mushrooms into pan and saute mushrooms adding white pepper and curry to taste. Clean garlic bulb and add ½ crushed garlic bulbs after about two minutes. Shut off the flame and cover the mushrooms for 2 minutes. Then pour mushrooms and melted butter with spices and garlic into warm cream. Add more white pepper if sauce needs additional flavor. Don’t overcook the mushrooms because they will continue to cook in the sauce.

Pull chicken breasts off the grill and dice them into 1 inch squares. Don’t let them overcook. We pull them early so they can finish cooking in the sauce. You can cut them smaller but the meal tastes better when you can identify the chicken in the sauce. Put chicken breasts into warm pan of sauce and turn the fire to high until the sauce is on the edge of boiling and turn it off. Leave cover off to reduce the liquid in the sauce.

While you are cooking the mushrooms, turn flame up to high below the second pan with sufficient water to cook 2 packages of fettuccini. Pour 1 ounce of garlic oil into the pasta pan to avoid the pasta sticking together. When the water starts boiling, pour pasta into pan. Wait until the water starts boiling again and turn the timer on to 17 minutes for organic pasta. Stir every two or three minutes to prevent pasta from sticking together.

When the pasta is ready, pour the pasta into a colander and strain off all of the water. Take a large cooking knife and cut the pasta in the same manner as you would cut a pie but only in 4 cuts. Pour the pasta back into the pan and then pour the hot Tetrazzini sauce over the fettuccini and stir. Cover the pan and let it steep until you are ready to serve it.

Toast Four Slices of Bread: But no more than light to medium. Melt a quarter pound of butter in a bowl in the microwave with 1 clove of crushed garlic. Spread the warm garlic butter on the toast and sprinkle Parmesan cheese over the toast and you have cheese garlic bread. Cut each slice into 3 or 4 pieces so they are finger size. If there is any garlic butter left, you can either save it for later or pour it into the sauce and stir.

The meal is ready to serve. Chicken Tetrazzini can be served for lunch, brunch or dinner. We find it tastes better after it sets up for a while and even better the next day. Unless you have two active teenage boys, there will be leftovers for multiple lunches, dinners or side dishes afterward. The Chicken Tetrazzini will last up to a week in the refrigerator without spoiling.

© 2010 – Mannie’s Diet and Enzyme Formula and the upcoming Mannie & Ashley’s Organic Cook Book.
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We decided to go shopping for an Alfredo pasta sauce and Parmesan cheese for a non-organic version of our Chicken Tetrazzini. After searching high and low, we picked the sauce with the least amount of synthetic ingredients and salt instead of the worst.

Trader Giottos’ Alfredo Pasta Sauce (from Trader Joe’s) contains 90 calories, 320 mg of salt and 1 gram of sugar per 2 ounce serving. The recipe requires three bottles which contain 2,160 calories, 7,680 grams of salt, 600 mg of cholesterol and 24 grams of sugar. We use no sugar or salt in our recipe.

Trader Giottos’ Alfredo Pasta Sauce contains cream, Parmesan and Romano cheeses, milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, , butter, dried egg yolks, phospholipase, modified corn starch, natural cheddar flavor, ethyl alcohol, Xanthium Gum, roasted garlic, black pepper, onion powder, lactic acid and nutmeg. Salt is mentioned in 4 different ingredients and 24 ingredients containing MSG and other chemicals.

We selected KRAFT 100% Grated PARMESAN Cheese which contains 20 calories, 85 mg of salt and 0 grams of sugar per 2 teaspoons. The average person will use 4 to 6 teaspoons of cheese on their meal which contain 40 to 60 calories and 170 to 185 grams of salt. Natural Parmesan Cheese from Italy contains no artificial ingredients, GMO products or salt.

Collectively, a 16 ounce serving of non-organic Chicken Alfredo or Tetrazzini contains approximately 1,145 mg of salt. This does not include the MSG and salt contained in factory farmed chicken (up to 15% in Tyson Chickens). We did not include the pasta because the contents differ only slightly between organic and non-organic pasta. The dangers of non-organic pasta are in the GMO wheat and high gluten content. Each loaf of bread is different, but commercial bread is too high in wheat gluten, high fructose corn syrup, MSG, sugar and other chemicals to be healthy for anyone.

Emanuel Barling, Jr., Esq. and Ashley F. Brooks, R.N. authors of Arthritis, Inflammation, Gout, Crohn’s, IBD and IBS – How to Eliminate Pain and Extend your Life and Mannie’s Diet and Enzyme Formula – A Change of Lifestyle Diet Designed for Everyone available at HowToEliminatePain.com, Amazon, Barnes&Noble, and other booksellers around the world. The authors’ latest book, It’s Not Your Fault! Weight Gain, Obesity and Food Addiction will be available for the 2010 holidays.