Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, easy chicken pesto. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Easy Chicken Pesto is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Easy Chicken Pesto is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
A spicy chicken and pesto pasta dish that's easy to adjust to any heat level. I created it after eating a similar dish at a Santa Monica restaurant, and it's one of my favorites. Serve with additional grated Parmesan, if desired.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy chicken pesto using 8 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Chicken Pesto:
- Take Chicken pesto
- Make ready 2 chicken breasts
- Take 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese
- Prepare 1 tomato, sliced
- Prepare 1 pre-made pesto
- Get Taste
- Take 1 salt and pepper
- Take 2 tsp parmesan cheese
From Crack Chicken to MIYM Chicken I have chicken breast recipes on this site aplenty! And this Pesto Chicken is so hyper simple it's almost not a recipe. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine chicken, rice and pesto. When cool enough to handle, fill peppers with chicken mixture; return to baking sheet.
Instructions to make Easy Chicken Pesto:
- Go buy pesto (skinny pesto if you like).
- Preheat over to 400°F
- Butterfly cut the chicken breasts to create 4 thinner cutlets.
- Season lightly with salt and pepper.
- Put chicken in a 9x13 Pyrex (or line baking sheet with foil for easy clean up).
- Put chicken in the Pyrex and spread "easy pesto" on top of each.
- Bake for 15 mins.
- Now add sliced tomatoes, mozzarella and parmesan cheese.
- Bake another 3 to 5 mins.
- (Chicken can be grilled too :-).
These thin pieces of chicken are also the key to packing in the most flavor per bite and ensuring an optimal pesto-tomato-cheese-chicken ratio. This chicken pesto pasta is so easy to make and so delicious! I love easy dinners, and this chicken pesto pasta is one of my favorites in my 'lazy dinner' rotation. Just toss the cooked pasta with pesto and chopped cooked chicken, and your mouthwatering Italian pasta dinner is ready! Season chicken with salt and pepper, and rub chicken with the basil pesto.
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