2059. Pesto Chicken Pasta

An easy and simple pesto chicken pasta that is a creamy 20-minute meal.

It combines pan-seared seasoned chicken breasts, creamy pesto, and pasta water.

Ingredients

500g penne past

500g sliced chicken breast

1 teaspoon poultry seasoning or Italian seasoning

3 crushed garlic

Handful sliced spring onion

2 small jars pesto paste 

1 cup chicken stock

2 cups cream

1/2 to 1 cup pasta water

1 cup freshly grated parmesan

Salt & pepper

Handful toasted pine nuts 

Method:

Start browning your chicken in some olive, add salt/pepper and poultry seasoning if using; set aside. 

While that’s happening cook pasta according to pack instructions. Reserve 1 cup of pasta water. 

In the same pan you cooked the chicken add a tablespoon of butter and the garlic/spring onions, cook for a minute before adding the pesto. Cook for another minute before adding the cream & chicken stock. 

Add the parmesan and stir. Add chicken. Taste for seasoning, add drained pasta along with some pasta water. Give it a gentle mix & serve with extra spring onion, pine nuts & parmesan.

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