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Chicken, pesto and tomato penne

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Chicken, Dinner, Italian, Pasta

Ingredients:

• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 BBQ chicken breast, roughly chopped
• 300g penne pasta
• 1 punnet cherry tomatoes, halved
• ¼ cup white wine
• 1/3 cup basil pesto
• ¼ cup cream
• parmesan cheese, to serve

Method:

Fill a large saucepan with water and bring to the boil. Add penne pasta and cook according to packet instructions.

Meanwhile, heat olive oil in a frying pan. Add chicken and cook for one minute.

Add the white wine and stir through. Turn down to a simmer.

Add the pesto, tomatoes and the cream and stir through.

Drain the cooked pasta and add to the sauce in the frying pan. Toss through the sauce and serve with a grating of parmesan cheese on top.

Notes:

• This is such a delicious dinner – it’s hard to believe you can have it on the table in 15 minutes!
• The addition of the cream and white wine turns the pesto into a sauce that has a lot of extra body.
• I think that it’s important to grate fresh parmesan cheese on top of pasta – don’t even consider the supermarket grated variety!
• This recipe makes the most of leftover BBQ chicken.

More pasta recipes:

• Chorizo pasta
• Bacon and bean fettuccine
• Curtis Stone’s fettuccine bolognaise
• Speedy pasta boscaiola
• Ear pasta with bacon and peas
• Sage butter ravioli

This recipe was created by Ella Walsh for Kidspot, New Zealand’s best recipe finder.

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