Creamy Pesto Chicken & Pasta Quick Hack
Creamy Pesto Chicken & Pasta Quick Hack

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, creamy pesto chicken & pasta quick hack. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Add chicken and season with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Cook until the chicken is no longer pink, then Return the chicken to the pot. Stir in the pesto and Parmesan.

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

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

This creamy chicken and pesto pasta is one of those easy weeknight meals that tastes amazing yet doesn't take a ton of time to pull together. Summer or Winter - this Creamy Pesto Chicken is quick, easy & CRAZY delicious! Perfect for easy entertaining or a mid-week meal. This Creamy Pesto Chicken blog post is sponsored by Imagine® Foods, although the content represents my own personal opinion/experience.

Instructions 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.

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