Pasta with Pesto Sauce
 
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Recipe type: Main Dish
Cuisine: Italian
Serves: 4 - 6
Ingredients
  • ¾ - 1 cup of basil pesto
  • 7 - 9 tablespoons of water
  • ½ cup of Parmesan cheese plus ¼ to dust on top of pasta
  • 8 oz. of chicken breast cut into cubes
  • 2 medium size potatoes
  • 1 lb. of boxed pasta (spaghetti, farfalle, linguini)
  • 2 bay leaves
  • salt
  • pepper
Instructions
  1. Prepare a large pot of salted boiling water.
  2. Cut the potatoes and wash under running water.
  3. Season the chicken with salt and pepper.
  4. Grill chicken on the stove or using a George Foreman.
  5. Cut the chicken in one inch cubes.
  6. Cook the pasta together with the potato (and green beans if you chose to use them) until the pasta is al dente. By the time the pasta is cooked the potato will also be cooked.
  7. Before draining the pasta reserve 7 -9 tablespoons of this water. Later it will be mixed with the pesto.
  8. In a bowl mix the pesto and the reserved hot water. The pesto sauce should have a creamy consistency, not too thick and not too thin.
  9. Drain the pasta, remove the bay leaves and set the pasta aside.
  10. In a ceramic bowl mix the pasta, potatoes, chicken and pesto (the green beans if using them.
  11. Add grated Parmesan cheese and mix again.
  12. Arrange the pasta in bowls and dust with extra Parmesan cheese.
Recipe by Belmondo Foods at https://www.belmondofoods.com/creamy-pesto-pasta-with-chicken-potatoes/