Creamy pasta pesto with chicken
Preparation time
1 min
Cooking time
10min
Dietary preference
Meat
Difficulty
Easy
Region
Liguria
Servings
4
In this recipe
Preparation
- Cook the pasta in salted water according to the instructions on the packet and drain. Save 100 ml of the cooking water.
- Meanwhile, cut the chicken breast into equally sized pieces and season with salt and pepper. Crush the garlic.
- Heat a frying pan with Bertolli extra virgin olive oil and fry the chicken breast pieces until brown all over. Then add the garlic and mix well.
- Briefly fry the pesto and add cream to the chicken and stir well. Taste and season with salt and pepper.
- Let simmer together with 100 ml cooking water from the pasta. Meanwhile, halve the cherry tomatoes.
- Add the cooked pasta and spoon through together with the cherry tomatoes.
- Divide among 4 plates and serve with grated Parmesan cheese and some basil. Buon apetito!
Variation tip: also tasty with rocket.
Ingredients
- 4 tbs Bertolli Pesto alla Genovese
- 1 bag Bertolli Penne Rigate pasta (400g)
- 300 gr chicken breast
- 1 tbs Bertolli extra virgin olive oil
- 1 big clove of garlic
- 100 ml cream
- 100 ml cooking liquid from the pasta
- Salt & pepper
- Handfull of cherry tomatoes
- Basil
- Parmesan cheese
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