Pasta Pesto Chicken. Browse Our Collection Of Simple Pasta Recipes and Prepare Yummy Meals! Easy and delicious bowtie pasta with chicken, sun-dried tomatoes and pesto sauce. Using homemade pesto will taste even better, but it adds to prep time.

In short this recipe is horrible. Add the mozzarella cheese over the pasta. Slice the chicken breasts in half and serve with the tomatoes and chilli spooned over the top. You can cook Pasta Pesto Chicken using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Pasta Pesto Chicken

It's 200 grams of Penne pasta.
Prepare 1 small of Red onion.
Prepare 1 packages of Pesto.
You need 200 ml of Water.
You need 2 clove of garlic.
You need 200 grams of chicken breasts.
It's 2 tsp of Salt and Pepper.

Finely grate a little extra Parmesan over the pasta, then sprinkle everything with basil leaves. Take the pan of the heat, then stir in the creme fraiche. Return the pan to the heat and stir in the pesto. Once cooked, drain the pasta well and add it to the pan.

Pasta Pesto Chicken step by step

In a large pot start boiling water for the pasta..
While water is boiling, cut up chicken breasts into bite size pieces and season with salt and pepper. Cut up onion and garlic..
In a small bowl add the pesto and add about 100-200ml of water and stir until combined and the mixture is watery..
Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil into a frying pan. Add the onion and saute for 3 minutes. Add the chicken and garlic and stir for 5 minutes..
Add pesto mixture and let the chicken marinate in it while the pasta cooked..
When pasta is cooked, drain well and add to skillet with chicken and pesto. Stir well and serve..

Mix well so the sauce coats the pasta. A spicy chicken and pesto pasta dish that's easy to adjust to any heat level. I created it after eating a similar dish at a Santa Monica restaurant, and it's one of my favorites. Serve with additional grated Parmesan, if desired. As an option, it's delicious with creamy goat cheese stirred in at the end.