Recipe: Perfect Simple Chicken Pesto Pasta

Simple Chicken Pesto Pasta. 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. This easy chicken with pesto pasta recipe can be made fast!

Top Tips for Making Chicken Pesto Pasta. I used grilled chicken breasts for this recipe but you can use any leftover cooked chicken in this recipe. Turkey or ham will also work well. You can cook Simple Chicken Pesto Pasta using 4 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Simple Chicken Pesto Pasta

You need 2 of chicken breasts.
It's 1 cup of vegetable pasta.
You need 1 tbsp of pesto.
You need 1/2 tbsp of butter.

Cook pasta in a large saucepan of boiling salted water according to packet directions. Return pasta to pan, then add pesto and reserved water and toss to combine. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, saute mushrooms and red pepper in oil until tender. Pesto is honestly one of my very favorite things in the whole world.

Simple Chicken Pesto Pasta step by step

Boil chicken breast.
Boil pasta.
Once chicken is a nice white color strain it and place in a pan with 1/2 the pesto and the butter for about 8 min on high heat or until light brown.
Once pasta is done strain and place back in pot with the rest of the pesto on ultra low heat..
Once chicken is done chop it up a bit. Then add both together, mix, and enjoy.

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