How to Make Super Quick Homemade Pesto Chicken and Rice

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pesto chicken and rice. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Pesto Chicken and Rice is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Pesto Chicken and Rice is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook pesto chicken and rice using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Pesto Chicken and Rice:

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

Steps to make Pesto Chicken and Rice:

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!

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