Recipe

Ziti With Chicken In Creamy Pesto Sauce Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Juels / All my dishes 1 year, 1 month ago Add a little cream and veggies to your trditional pesto sauce, and you got a nice meal. Prep:5m Cook:25m Servings:4	Juels
	creamy pesto sauce with chicken

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Ingredients

1 lb ziti, or any tube pasta

1 pkge frozen peas and carrots, defrosted

2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts

2 cups basil leaves

2 cloves garlic

1/3 cup pinenuts OR walnuts

1/3 cup parmesan and romano grated cheese mix

1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil

1 tsp salt

1 cup heavy cream

Directions

Bring a pot of water to boil, add ziti and cook according to package directions for about 10 min, or until just done. Add peas and carrots during the last 2 minutes of cooking. Hint: make sure that peas and carrots are well defrosted, otherwise they may not cook all the way and be crunchy.

Meanwhile, brown chicken breasts on both sides in a skillet with some oil until no longer pink inside. Cut in strips and set aside. Hint: if you cover skillet with a lid, the chicken won't stick to pan and cook through faster.

For pesto sauce: Combine 2 cups basil leaves, garlic, nuts, parmesan and romano cheese and salt in a food processor. Turn on and blend while streaming in olive oil. Make the pesto kind of thick, since you'll be adding cream to it. If too loose, add more nuts and cheese.

Spoon the sauce into a bowl and stir in the heavy cream.

Drain pasta and veggies; add chicken strips and pesto sauce. Toss to combine.

To serve, sprinkle with chopped walnuts and grated parmesan.

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Comments

chefelaine 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Sounds good to this kid! FIVE :+D

jimrug1 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Nice fast and easy recipe.. Thanks for sharing... Jim

mountainmama 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Pasta omg YUM....HIGH 10..nope only a 5 sorry! ha ha :)

pinkpasta 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Love it! My family will thank you... :D
So glad you shared...
^5
Deb~

binky67 1 year, 1 month ago said:
I like this one :-)

trigger 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Julia this sounds really good, are you sure your not Italian.
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krumkake 10 months, 3 weeks ago said:
I have everything I need for this, and it sounds like a very easy dish to throw together...will make it this week - was going to just do plain old pesto chicken, but this sounds like a MUCH better version! Thank you~

conner909 10 months, 1 week ago said:
Ah....pasta...my 'red light' food! Love it!

michellem 9 months, 1 week ago said:
This sounds so good..thank you for the great easy recipe!

momto5 9 months ago said:
This sounds really good! I have my own little group of picky critics here and I think they would even like it. Thanks so much!

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