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Readers are placing their bets for how much the BJ’s recipe below for lemon-chicken bowtie pasta costs. I’ve shared one clue – it’s less than $12.
Whoever comes closest to guessing without going over (like the Price is Right) wins a one-year membership to BJs, a warehouse club with 187 locations in 15 states. Membership to BJ’s costs $45. If multiple readers guess correctly the prize goes to whoever answered first.
So far readers have guessed as low as $2.73 and as high as $9.73. Your guess should be for the cost of the entire recipe, which makes four servings, not the price per serving.
The contest ends Monday at 11:59 p.m. PST and the winner will be announced Tuesday. Leave your answer as a comment on this post, on my Facebook page, or on Twitter. One guess per email, please.
Lemon-Chicken Bowtie Pasta, serves 4 at ??? price
8 oz. Barilla® Farfalle
4 Perdue® Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts (1¼ lb.)
5 Green Onions, sliced
1 clove Garlic, minced
2 Tbsp. Wesson® Canola Oil
1/ 8 tsp. McCormick® Cayenne Pepper
1½ cups Progresso® Chicken Broth
2 tsp. Grey Poupon® Dijon Mustard
¼ cup fresh Lemon Juice
White Sauce (see below)
1. Cook pasta until al dente. Drain and set aside. 2. Cut chicken into ¾” pieces. Set aside. Heat oil in large skillet over medium high heat. Add green onions and garlic and sauté one minute. 3. Add chicken and sauté, turning chicken occasionally until cooked through, about 12 to 15 minutes. 4. Add pasta, toss and set aside. 5. Adapt Basic White Sauce recipe (see previous page): mix cayenne pepper into flour before adding. Reduce milk by 1½ cups, substituting same amount of chicken broth. Add chicken broth-milk mix to fl our mix per recipe instructions. 6. While sauce is still hot, whisk in mustard and lemon juice, then immediately pour over chicken-pasta mixture; lightly toss to mix. 7. Garnish with sliced lemon and serve immediately.
BASIC WHITE SAUCE Makes 2 cups. Your microwave’s cooking times may vary. Please watch carefully.
4 Tbsp. Land O’Lakes® Sweet Butter
4 Tbsp. Gold Medal® All-Purpose Flour
2 cups Milk
Salt and Black Pepper to taste
1. Melt butter on high in 1-qt., microwave-safe
bowl, about 20 to 30 seconds. 2. Stir in flour, using spoon to break up lumps, until smoothly blended. 3. Add milk, salt and pepper and stir until completely blended. 4. Microwave on high, pausing to stir every 30 seconds or so, until sauce is thick and bubbly, about 1 to 2 minutes. Variation: Add 2 cups of shredded Cracker Barrel® Sharp Cheddar Cheese and toss with cooked elbow macaroni for mac and cheese.
Welcome to Bargain Babe! I’m Mara, and I’m so glad you’re here. I am an obsessive bargain hunter and penny pincher, and I am determined to live a full life without EVER paying full price. 
I’m going to go with $11.49 – recipe sounds good so I’ll have to give it a try! Thanks!
Ginni
$5.23
$7.76
$11.01
$10.88
I believe it is about $10.25
$2 pasta
$4 chicken
$4 misc.
$9.90
$8.27
7.99
$8.32
$9.49
$11.25
I’m going with $11.29.
ill go with 11.98
my guess is $10.59
$9.60
$10.49
$6.59
$7.32
Wild guess with estimating comes to about $6.50. Since flour, spices, etc., are always on hand in my pantry/fridge, costs for those in the recipe are negligible. Besides, I have a lemon tree in my front yard! Basic costs are for chicken, canned broth, milk and pasta.
I’ll guess $8.33–does sound yummy!
$8.43
$7.50
$7.74
37 cents!
I’m going with 4.95
every thing was on sale….I’m sure of that. OK,,,,$2.23….
I figured $4.46 total. The chicken was on sale $4.99 for 4 pounds at Safeway, so about 1.70 for 1 & 1/4 lb., The pasta is .99 with .75 coupon=.24, broth @2/1.00, about .69 for 2 cups of milk, and .33 for green onions. Butter, flour, spices, oil for about .50 (since I always have it on hand, but still had to pay for it a some point.) So, that’s my guess. And I’m thinking, this sounds like a great recipe for me to make this coming week!
7.67
I’ll say $4.99 for the meal
I’m going to say 8.78
$30.39 is my guess for lemon chicken pasta
10.50
$11.58 i wasn’t sure if i should count each and every single item in the recipe or to just assume everyone already has the basic ingredients such as oil
I will go with 10.79.
Thanks!
$6.67
6.69$
I would say $5.85 at the most. That is assuming you buy on sale and have a good pantry (It would be cheaper if you don’t buy the name brands!)
$9.79
I’ll go with $5.28
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6.72
Im going to guess 6.53.
$15.00
11.78