Chicken Pesto "Pasta"
Chicken Pesto "Pasta"

Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chicken pesto "pasta". One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Easy and delicious pasta with chicken. Serve with crusty bread and salad for a quick dinner. Chicken Pesto Pasta is chicken and penne in a basil pesto sauce.

Chicken Pesto "Pasta" is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Chicken Pesto "Pasta" is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have chicken pesto "pasta" using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Pesto "Pasta":
  1. Prepare Pesto
  2. Make ready 1 cup Almonds
  3. Take 1 1/2 cup Fresh Basil
  4. Take 1/2 cup Olive oil
  5. Get 3 clove Fresh Garlic
  6. Make ready 1/2 Juiced Lemon
  7. Prepare 1 Salt and Pepper
  8. Take Pasta
  9. Prepare 1 lb Organic Chicken Thighs or Breasts
  10. Take 2 Zucchini
  11. Prepare 1 Yellow Squash
  12. Take 1 Tarragon

Creamy homemade pesto sauce, garlic and juicy chicken breasts are served over pasta. Chicken Pesto Pasta is a healthy and easy chicken pasta dish that you can cook for dinner. This dish makes use of Penne pasta along with basil pesto and grilled chicken. Here's what you need: canola oil, chicken breasts, garlic, kosher salt, black pepper, heavy cream, grated parmesan cheese, pesto, penne pasta, cherry tomato, parmesan cheese, fresh basil.

Instructions to make Chicken Pesto "Pasta":
  1. Cook the chicken however you would like. Boil it, grill it, pan cook it. Whatever you like best. I cooked mine in a pan with some olive oil.
  2. Thinly slice your zucchini and squash length wise into thin strips with a mandoline. Then use a knife to cut them into noodles. Kind of like fettuccine noodle size.
  3. Now to make your pesto use a food processor. Add all your pesto ingredients to your food process and mix away! Taste it to see if you need more salt and pepper or even more lemon, olive oil, or basil in it. Your pesto, your flavor.
  4. Add a tablespoon or two of olive oil to a large pot or skillet. Then add in your zucchini and squash along with your pesto and mix well. Let that cook down a bit, stirring occasionally, while you cut up your chicken into bite size cubes.
  5. Throw in the chicken and mix everything together. Let simmer on low for 5 minutes or so or until the zucchini and squash are tender and ?al dente? or however you like your pasta. Serve with a bit of tarragon on top.

This chicken pesto pasta salad is quick, easy, and a great way to use up leftover chicken. To make this pesto pasta salad really simple, I used rotisserie chicken. You can use any pre-cooked chicken. Pesto is easy to make from scratch with just a handful of ingredients. Its fresh flavor is the highlight of this super-fast pasta dish, packed with cherry tomatoes and chicken.

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