Olive Garden Chicken Scampi with Fresh Peppers is a delightful dish served in a savory white wine sauce with breaded chicken. It’s topped with a wonderful variety of fresh peppers and onions. This Chicken Scampi is one of the restaurants most requested menu items and now you can make it at home.
Why this Recipe Works
The Olive Garden has so many wonderful recipes that can be made at home. This Chicken Scampi works because it’s filled with wonderfully fresh ingredients and topped with a creamy white wine sauce. It can be made as a pasta dish or add shrimp instead of chicken. There are many ways to serve this dish. So many families have fond memories at the Olive Garden restaurant. Making a dish like this helps recreate those favorite memories that you have when you go out to eat.
How to Make Olive Garden Chicken Scampi
This Chicken Scampi recipe uses fresh ingredients bringing together the wonderful flavors of peppers and red onions. Here’s what else you will need:
- Chicken Tenders
- Flour
- Milk
- Salt & Pepper
- Red, Green & Orange Peppers
- Red Onion
- Garlic
- Pasta
- White Wine
- Heavy Cream
- Italian Seasonings
Prepare the chicken first. This will be coated in flour, milk and salt & pepper. Let rest while you are preparing the pasta. Next, saute the peppers, onions, and garlic in a large skillet. Remove the veggies and add the chicken. Once the chicken is ready, remove and use the same skillet to make the savory wine sauce. Add the pasta and veggies back into the sauce and mix. Serve with the chicken. Scroll down to see my video on creating this dish!
Notes
- If you do not drink wine, you may substitute it with low sodium chicken broth.
- When choosing wine for this recipe, I would choose an inexpensive Chardonnay or another dry white wine. Pick something that is drinkable.
- Another substitute idea would be to use dry sherry when a recipe calls for white wine. You don’t have to worry about sherry going bad, in a couple of days. This stays good for a couple of months.
- You can make this a meatless dish by leaving out the chicken and replacing with some mushrooms instead. Either way, this is going to be delicious.
Do you like the Olive Garden restaurant? Try this copy cat recipes from the Olive Garden.
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Olive Garden Chicken Scampi
Ingredients
- 1 pound chicken tenders
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 4 tablespoons olive oil - divided use
- 1/2 green bell pepper sliced thin
- 1/2 red bell pepper sliced thin
- 1/2 orange bell pepper sliced thin
- 1/2 red onion sliced thin
- 1 clove garlic sliced thin
- 1 pound pasta
- 3/4 cup white wine
- 3/4 cup heavy cream
- 1/4 teaspoon Italian seasonings
Instructions
- Place flour, salt, and pepper into a shallow dish and mix well with a fork. Place milk in a shallow dish. Dredge the chicken first in flour, then dip into milk, and then dredge again in the flour.
- Place breaded chicken on a rack and allow to rest 10 minutes before cooking. While the chicken is resting, cut peppers, onions, and garlic. Saute the peppers, onions, and garlic in a large heavy-bottomed skillet over medium heat with 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Season the peppers, onions, and garlic with a light sprinkling of salt. Saute until peppers begin to brown. Remove from skillet.
- Place the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a hot skillet. Place the chicken in skillet. Cook for 5 to 7 minutes on each side until the chicken has browned on both sides. Remove chicken from pan. Deglaze the pan by adding white wine to the pan and add Italian seasoning blend. Use a spoon to scrape the browned bits off the bottom of the pan. Add heavy cream and mix well. Return cooked vegetables to the pan and stir. Add cooked pasta to the skillet. Plate the pasta and sauce, placing a few pieces of cooked chicken with each plate.
Recipe Tips for the Cook
Notes
- If you do not drink wine, you may substitute it with low sodium chicken broth.
- When choosing wine for this recipe, I would choose an inexpensive Chardonnay or another dry white wine. Pick something that is drinkable.
- Another substitute idea would be to use dry sherry when a recipe calls for white wine. You don't have to worry about sherry going bad, in a couple of days. This stays good for a couple of months.
- You can make this a meatless dish by leaving out the chicken and replacing with some mushrooms instead. Either way, this is going to be delicious.
LisaParks says
I can tell you that nobody loved Olive Garden’s chicken scampi more than me. I would get it every time I would go there. Then the dreaded ok, this isn’t as good as it used to be, must be having a bad night. But after six more times of being bland, I made this and Olive Garden can’t compare to yours. Thank you..
Stephanie says
I hope that means you liked it 😉
Car Lover says
We loved this!
Amy says
May I use chicken broth instead of wine in this recipe?
Stephanie says
You can, but the results will be different than what is served.
Denise says
For the sauce can I use 2percent milk but add a little flour to thicken the sauce?
Stephanie says
I don’t think this will work well. 2% milk doesn’t do a great job at making a creamy sauce. Can you do it, yes. I personally want a thick and creamy sauce, and 2% milk just isn’t up to the job.
Alice says
How does the chicken stay hot before the last steps ?
Stephanie says
Yes it stays hot.
Mindy says
My daughter made me this yesterday for Mother’s Day, and it was wonderful! It tasted exactly like the Olive Garden meal. Great job with this Copy Cat recipe!
Stephanie says
Thank you! Happy Mother’s day, a couple of days late.
Janet says
another suggestioni for the wine besides the sherry and the chicken broth, if you want the white wine but don’t want to open a bottle and it go bad after a couple days, get those little individual wine bottles that usually come in a 4 pack..i have both the red and the white in my cabinet for cooking or for a long day..haha.
Stephanie says
Oh, that’s a great idea. I never think of those!
surveillancekart says
Love the recipe! i should try this myself. thank you for posting such good recipe.
Janet says
Your recipe looks fantastic!! I will try making this very soon!! Thank you!
Nate says
Love this recipe……. Family loves it!!!!!! I think it’s just like or 0perhaps better then OG.
Brady says
Stephanie, this was excellent! I’ve never had this dish from Olive Garden, but I’m so glad that I found this recipe! My husband and I are generally low carb, so I used almond flour for the chicken and red lentil/quinoa blend linguini. My husband is groaning on the sofa as I type this from eating too much….that my friend is a sincere compliment 😉
Rachel says
I actually had never had the Olive Garden version, but my fiance and his family loved it. So when I came across this recipe about a year ago, I had to try it. We have made it many times side and everyone loves it. I’ve now tried the Olive Garden version and I have to say, I like this recipe WAY better! I was actually really disappointed in comparison. So well done!
Stephanie says
I am so glad you liked this recipe. This recipe was very important to get this one right. I received a heart touching email about a request for this particular recipe.
Jackie says
The dish itself is good. We thoroughly enjoyed it. A copycat of Chicken Scampi at Olive Garden? Not close. This is a miss. Where is the garlic? Too much cream. Too much breading on the chicken for this particular dish. Like I said, in itself a good recipe. I will tweak it and make again.
Also, very well written, easy to follow. Kudos!
Stephanie says
I am sorry this copycat wasn’t up to your standards. I know there is some variation in the restaurants and how they prepare their food.
Kendra says
Lol. I love you. I tried this a while back. Making it again tonight! So good!
Stephanie says
I am so glad you enjoyed it.
Jackie says
The dish itself is good. We thoroughly enjoyed it. A copycat of Chicken Scampi at Olive Garden? Not close. This is a miss. Where is the garlic? Too much cream. Too much breading on the chicken for this particular dish. Like I said, in itself a good recipe. I will tweak it and make again.