Steps to Make Creamy Pesto Chicken & Pasta Quick Hack

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Season chicken with salt and pepper, and rub chicken with the basil pesto. Heat olive oil in a large nonstick skillet. All the flavors of Italian pesto (fresh basil, pine nuts, Parmesan, and garlic) in a simple creamy sauce.

How to Make Creamy Pesto Chicken & Pasta Quick Hack

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have creamy pesto chicken & pasta quick hack using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Creamy Pesto Chicken & Pasta Quick Hack:

1. Make ready Your favorite Chicken part/s
2. Take Bottled or ready-made Pesto sauce
3. Take 3-4 garlic cloves, smashed
4. Prepare 1/2 red onion, sliced coarsely
5. Make ready 1 large or 2 small dry bay/laurel leaves
6. Take 1 c or more water
7. Prepare 1/2 cube chicken bullion or broth cube
8. Make ready Cooked pasta
9. Make ready 150 ml all purpose cream (nestle or other)
10. Make ready pinch peppercorns (huge pinch)
11. Take to taste Salt
12. Get Sprinkle of Parmesan (optional)

It's made with a cashew butter cream sauce so it's completely dairy-free. It's so rich and creamy that you'd never guess this is a healthy recipe! Maybe a pint of ice cream, but my Creamy Skillet Pesto Chicken is a close second! Chicken: In this recipe, I use boneless and skinless chicken breast cut into bite sized pieces.

Instructions

Steps to make Creamy Pesto Chicken & Pasta Quick Hack:

1. In a pot heat your water and add the bay leaves, garlic, onions, peppercorns and 1/4 of a chicken bullion cube. Add your chicken (salted lightly), thawed or 1/2 frozen. How much chicken? Depends how many are eating. How much water? Enough to submerge the chicken. Cover, turn, check until chicken is cooked (about 15-20 mins for 2 pcs of quarter chicken). Set aside when cooked.
2. Meanwhile while boiling chicken, cook your pasta according to package instructions. Don't forget to add salt and oil or butter in the water. Set aside when cooked.
3. Pesto sauce- to make it quick and easy, buy a pre-made or ready made pesto sauce from the supermarket. Normally they are in small bottles good for 2-3 servings. You can use the whole thing depending on how many are eating. If there's excess oil in the bottle, separate and pour it in a container (if u want to use it later on), no need to strain or to be exact. We need to remove the excess oil since this is a creamy sauce.
4. In very low heat, pour the oil-drained pesto in a pan. Add your nestle or all purpose cream and 1/4 of the remaining chicken bullion cube. Stir in the flavors. Add a few tablespoons of the chicken broth from the boiled chicken to enhance the flavor, but not too much to make it soupy. To thicken, you can add more cream. Taste and season accordingly.
5. Plating- plate your chicken and pasta then scoop your pesto sauce on top. OR toss it in a big bowl but ensure that your pasta is well drained as the excess water will make it soupy. Sprinkle on Parmesan cheese (the Kraft kind or cheese block kind). Enjoy!
6. Note: the chicken broth tastes good too, you can serve it as a side soup with a sprinkle of scallions. Or freeze and use it for a chicken noodle soup dish.

Chicken thighs can also be used. Pesto Sauce: On really busy days, when my time is limited, using store-bought pesto makes this dish even quicker and easier. Get a good quality pesto sauce. My favorite is Costco's Kirkland brand. This Creamy Chicken Pesto Pasta Recipe has the perfect amount of creamy, tangy and yummy!

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