Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Chicken Pasta Pesto

This was dinner last night.
Chicken pasta pesto
or
Pasta chicken pesto
or
Chicken pesto pasta
or
Pesto chicken pasta
or.......
It was delicious!
Here is the recipe:
Ingredients:
2 whole skinless chicken breasts roasted and shredded
2 ribs of celery-diced
1 box cooked penne pasta
one can of olives or fresh kalamata olives
1 bunch fresh basil- chopped
6-10 cherry tomatoes halved
1 can drained Garbanzo beans or White beans
2 cups of packed fresh spinach
salt and pepper
Sauce:
-1 cup of fresh pesto
(or Besto Pesto-this is a local pesto available at the farmer's market)
-juice and zest of one lemon
- 1/4 cup sour cream
-1/4 cup mayo
How To Make:
Combine sauce ingredients and set aside. Drizzle cooked pasta with a little olive oil,
add sauce, chicken and rest of ingredients, mix well. The hot pasta thins the sauce.
If the sauce is too thick you can thin it with a bit of pasta water.
Serve warm or cold.
Or make it Vegetarian to suit your taste.
Serving size: a big honkin bowl.

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