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Recipe of Speedy Creamy Chicken Pesto Pasta

 ·  ☕ 3 min read  ·  ✍️ Gary Dunn
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Creamy Chicken Pesto Pasta

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, creamy chicken pesto pasta. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

While the pasta is cooking, heat the oil and fry the chicken. After a minute add the courgette. Mix the creme fraiche and pesto together. Just as the chicken and courgette seems done throw in your cherry tomatoes and cook for about a minute, or until the tomatoes begin to soften.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook creamy chicken pesto pasta using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Creamy Chicken Pesto Pasta:
  1. Make ready 1 cup Basil
  2. Take 2 tbsp Pine nuts
  3. Get 1 clove Finely chopped garlic
  4. Take 1/4 cup Grated Parmesan Cheese
  5. Get 1/3 cup Olive oil
  6. Get 1 pinch Salt and pepper
  7. Get 1 Chicken Breast
  8. Make ready 1/3 cup Heavy cream
  9. Get 1/2 lb Pasta of choice

Drain and reserve a few tbsps of the cooking water. Meanwhile, heat olive oil in a large frying pan. Add the shredded chicken in the pan and heat through. Pop pasta and beans in with the chicken mix and stir to coat, adding a little.

Steps to make Creamy Chicken Pesto Pasta:
  1. Add basil leaves into a food processor and process until coarsely blended. Then add the pine nuts, chopped garlic, Parmesan cheese, olive oil, salt, and pepper and process until coarsely blended.
  2. Add pasta in generous amount of salted boiling water and cook until al dente according to the package directions.
  3. Meanwhile in a pan on medium heat with a little bit of olive oil cook chicken breasts. When the chicken is almost done cooking rub some pesto sauce on the chicken and put it into the oven at 350?F Fahrenheit (I used a toaster oven). Turning it over after couple minutes. Cook the chicken for 10-15 minutes or until crisp and golden.
  4. I'm another pan heat heavy cream on medium until simmering. Then add a little bit of Parmesan cheese and mix until the sauce thickens.
  5. Back to pasta. Drain and immediately add to the cream sauce. Save some pasta water to loosen up the pasta if needed. The. Add the pesto sauce and combine. Toast the pasta in the pan for 3 minutes or until well combined. Then add the chicken breast and serve.

Add the shredded chicken in the pan and heat through. Pop pasta and beans in with the chicken mix and stir to coat, adding a little. This creamy Chicken Pesto Pasta recipe is made with tasty chicken and tender pasta smothered in a luscious cream and basil pesto sauce. A handful of cherry tomatoes - chopped in half. A handful of fresh basil - chopped.

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