Pesto Roasted Chicken
Pesto Roasted Chicken

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Pesto lovers will delight in this Italian-inspired roasted chicken recipe. The homemade pesto rub is fragrant and tasty and adds incredible flavor to the meat as it roasts. This is a quick and flavorful pesto roasted chicken to prepare for any meal.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have pesto roasted chicken using 3 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Pesto Roasted Chicken:
  1. Prepare pesto
  2. Get 1 purple pesto recipe below. You may use regular basil in the recipe.
  3. Get 1 whole chicken, average weight, 5 pounds

This baked chicken pesto recipe is a satisfying and healthy dish, that can be served alongside pasta, zucchini noodles or crispy roasted potatoes. The recipe makes a generous amount of basil pesto sauce that can be saved and added to others meals for an extra bump of flavor! Place chicken on large rimmed baking sheet. Lay the chicken on the lined baking sheet, skin side down.

Steps to make Pesto Roasted Chicken:
  1. Wash with cool water your chicken inside and out. Pat dry with paper towels.
  2. Rub pesto all over the chicken, inside and out. You will need about 3/4 cup of pesto. - - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/357141-pesto-sauce
  3. Roast chicken in a preheated 425°F fahrenheit oven for 30 minutes. Lower oven to 350°F. Roast chicken for 20 minutes per pound. Chicken should reach 165°F. Let rest 20 minutes outside of oven.
  4. Carve and serve.
  5. Recipe by taylor68too.

Place chicken and pesto in medium bowl; toss to coat. Place chicken on prepared baking sheet. Remove from oven; top with tomatoes and cheese. Pesto Chicken GRILLED OR OVEN BAKED, smothered in a creamy, homemade Basil Pesto! Spoon pesto over chicken; top with mushrooms and olives.

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