What’s tetrazini? It’s my absolute favorite pasta dish, and it’s the perfect recipe to make when you have company over for dinner. The best part about this recipe is that it serves about more than 5 people, so you can enjoy some yourself without eating too much of your own cooking. Just don’t forget to try out this simple tetrazini recipe at home!

Packed with protein, fiber, and healthy fats, this simple tetrazini recipe makes for a filling meal, or even an appetizer when prepared in smaller portions. It’s also very versatile, allowing you to mix and match your favorite pasta shapes and vegetables to create your own customized version! Use the following tetrazini recipe as your guide, then create your own unique version by swapping out ingredients you don’t like or don’t have on hand, or by adding some of your own favorites to make the dish even more personalized and special.

What is Tetrazini?

The American cuisine tetrazini or tetrazinni is created with chopped fish or poultry and mushrooms in a butter, cream, and cheese sauce with wine or sherry flavoring.

It is commonly accepted that Ernest Arbogast, the chef at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California, where Tetrazzini made her American debut on January 11, 1905 at the Tivoli as Gilda in Rigoletto, devised it somewhere between 1908 and 1910.

The Knickerbocker Hotel in New York City, according to various versions, is where the phrase first appeared. The earliest mention of turkey tetrazini appeared in an October 1908 publication of Good Housekeeping, which informed readers where to find the cooked turkey in a cream sauce with spaghetti, grated cheese, sliced mushrooms, and bread crumbs on top, at “the restaurant on Forty-second Street.”

It is served hot over linguine, spaghetti, egg noodles, or other pasta varieties. Parsley is added as a garnish, and cheese, breadcrumbs, almonds, or canned fried onions may also be added (or a combination). The dish has Luisa Tetrazzini’s name, an opera singer from Italy.

Tetrazini can be made as a baked noodle dish, occasionally with the addition of stages to give the crust a browned appearance. Sometimes canned cream of mushroom soup or other cream soups are used in shortcut recipes for home cooking.

Chef Louis Paquet popularized the chicken tetrazzini as opposed to the turkey tetrazini.

Tetrazini Ingredients

• 1 package spagetti noodles
• 2 c chicken broth
• 2 c milk
• 1/4 c Butter
• 4 tbls cream cheese
• 2 tbsp parmesan cheese (optional)
• 1/2 c mozzarella or monteray cheese
• 2 c chicken or Turkey, diced
• 1 c black olives, diced
• 1 small onion, diced
• 1 can mushrooms, diced
• 1/2 c Flour
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 1 tsp pepper
• 2 tsp garlic powder

How to Make Tetrazini Step by Step

1. As usual, prepare pasta.
2. Bring to a boil the mixture of broth, milk, butter, cream cheese, and spices. Add the flour gradually, bring to a boil, and then add the meat, olives, onion, and mushroom. Simmer for a while.
3. Noodles should be placed in a 13 x 9-inch pan, followed by the sauce. Combine everything, then sprinkle cheese shavings on top. Add more garlic powder on top.
4. Bake till bubbling for about 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

Useful Tips

1. The fresh white mushrooms and onion can be sautéed first, then the remaining ingredients can be added.
2. Additionally, a cup of the chicken broth can be changed for a can of cream of mushroom soup.
3. Half and half can be used in place of some of the milk. In addition to chopping fresh parsley, you can add it to the cheese you’ll be topping with.
4. For this meal, rotisserie chicken was utilized.

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Tetrazini Endnote

The best part about tetrazini (or its Italian name, tetrazzini) is that it has almost no competition in the pasta category! This creamy dish has the richness of chicken parmesan and cheese ravioli, but with fewer calories and less fat. It’s easy to make a large batch, so it’s perfect if you have company coming over or if you need to bring something to a potluck dinner.

Not only does tetrazini taste delicious, but it’s also easy to make and is the perfect dish for large crowds and potlucks. It’s also surprisingly customizable, so you can add your favorite ingredients to suit your personal taste preferences. Here’s how to make tetrazinni the right way—just be sure to serve it immediately after you cook it, because like most dishes with long ingredient lists, it tends to suffer from lack of flavor when reheated.

Just follow this simple recipe, and be sure to take notes on how you made the dish so you can easily repeat it in the future!