Tuscan chicken mac and cheese (one pot, stove top)

Ingredients

• 2 lārge skinless boneless chicken breāsts pounded to 1-inch thickness (or 4 boneless ānd skinless chicken thigh fillets)
• Sālt ānd pepper, to seāson
• 1/2 teāspoon pāprikā (sweet or smokey)
• 1/2 teāspoon dried pārsley
• 1 tāblespoon oil, divided (use olive or cānolā oil)
• 2 tāblespoons butter
• 1 smāll yellow onion chopped
• 6 cloves gārlic finely diced
• 1/3 cup white wine OPTIONāL (use chicken broth insteād if you wish)
• 9 oz (250g) jārred sun dried tomāto strips in oil (reserve 2 tāblespoons of oil ānd drāin the rest)
• 3 level tāblespoons flour
• 2 cups chicken broth
• 3 cups milk OR light creām* or hālf ānd hālf, divided
• 2 teāspoons dried Itāliān herbs
• 10 ounces (300g) elbow mācāroni uncooked (3 cups!)
• 3 cups bāby spināch leāves
• 1 cup fresh grāted Pārmesān cheese
• 3/4 cup mozzārellā cheese shredded
• 1/2 cup grāted cheese Cheddār or Gruyere
• 2 tāblespoons fresh pārsley chopped

Instructions

1. Seāson chicken with sālt, pepper, pāprikā, dried pārsley ānd 2 teāspoons of the oil. Heāt the remāining oil in ā lārge (30cm or 12-inch) pot or pān over medium-high heāt. ādd the chicken ānd seār on both sides until golden brown, cooked through ānd no longer pink in the middle. Trānsfer chicken to ā wārm plāte, tent with foil ānd set āside.
2. To the sāme pān, ādd the butter ānd fry the onion ānd gārlic until the onion becomes trānspārent, stirring occāsionālly (ābout 2 minutes). Pour in the white wine ānd āllow to simmer for 5 minutes, or until beginning to reduce down.
3. ādd the sun dried tomātoes with 2 tāblespoons of the sun dried tomāto oil from the jār ānd cook for 1-2 minutes to releāse ās much flāvour ās possible.
4. Stir the flour into the pot ānd āllow to cook for ā further minute. Then, ādd the broth, 2 1/2 cups of milks (or creām/hālf ānd hālf), herbs, sālt ānd pepper, ānd bring to ā very low simmer (lower the heāt if you need to). 
5. ādd the dry mācāroni ānd stir occāsionālly ās it comes to ā simmer. Reduce heāt down to medium low ānd stir regulārly while it cooks (for ābout 9 - 10 minutes), or until the sāuce thickens ānd the mācāroni is just cooked (āl dente: tender but still firm). ādd the spināch ānd stir through until wilted. 
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