Recipe: Yummy Pesto Chicken and Rice

Pesto Chicken and Rice. Add rice and stir until all rice is fully saturated in liquid. Remove the chicken, cut it up into bite sized pieces, and return it to the pan, along with the peas and pesto. Sprinkle chicken with salt & pepper, to taste.

Add the rice and chicken stock. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a low simmer. Top each piece of chicken with a dollop of pesto and serve topped with Parmesan cheese if desired. You can have Pesto Chicken and Rice using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Pesto Chicken and Rice

1. Prepare 1/4 cup of pesto sauce.
2. You need 1/2 cup of pesto tomato sauce.
3. Prepare 2 of chicken breast.
4. You need 2 cup of uncle bens brown rice.
5. It's 1 tsp of lemon juice.
6. You need 1/4 cup of grated parmesean cheese.
7. Prepare 1 pinch of ground black pepper.
8. Prepare 1 pinch of parsley flakes.
9. Prepare 3/4 cup of mozza cheese.
10. You need 1 head of broccoli.
11. It's 2 tsp of butter or margarine.
12. It's 1 pinch of garlic salt.

COOK rice according to package directions. CUT chicken breast into cubes while rice is cooking; heat olive oil in a medium sauté pan and cook chicken until brown and cooked through. ADD tomatoes, pesto, salt and pepper to the same pan. Bring to simmer and add spinach and cooked chicken.

Pesto Chicken and Rice instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350c.
2. Cut chicken breasts into quarters.
3. Place chicken in bowl. Pour the pesto on top, followed by lemom juice and a bit of pepper. Let sit for 20 minutes. Reduce the oven to 300c and cook for 55 minutes, covered..
4. Combine rice, butter with water. Bring to a boil then reduce heat to medium..
5. In a separate pot, boil water and butter. Add broccoli and reduce heat to medium-high.
6. Drain any excess water from rice, add pesto tomato sauce and simmer. Stir occasionally..
7. Drain most of the water from the broccoli, leaving a little bit in the pot. Let sit on low-medium heat..
8. Remove chicken from oven. Place in a circle on the outside of the plate..
9. Place rice in middle of plate, topped with mozzarella cheese..
10. Place broccoli on top of rice, topped with parm cheese and black pepper..
11. (opt) Serve with garlic toast!.

Cook rice according to package directions. Scatter the chopped onions, mushrooms and rice in the dish and nestle the chicken in the mix. Mix the pesto in the boiling chicken stock and pour into the dish. Pesto Chicken Florentine "Delicious and quick. I will use much more spinach the next time I make it—and mushrooms and onions sound like good additions." - Janet Pesto Chicken.