Chicken Pesto Pasta Recipe

🧂 Ingredients

• 4 chicken breasts

  skinless and boneless
• 2 cloves garlic

  crushed
• 2 Tbsp butter
• 1 lb penne pasta

  uncooked
• 1 cup whole milk
• ½ cup cream cheese
• ½ cup Parmesan cheese
• 2 cups chicken stock
• ½ cup basil pesto
• ½ cup sundried tomatoes

  chopped
• salt and pepper

Instructions

• 1 Use a sharp knife to cut the chicken into cubes. Then, in a large pot, melt the
  butter and brown the cubes of chicken on all sides. Cook for 5-8 minutes.
• 2 Add the garlic and sauté with the chicken for 2 minutes, then pour in the penne
  pasta and the chicken stock. Cover and cook on low for 8 minutes. Stir the pot
  occasionally to make sure the pasta doesn’t stick to the bottom.
• 3 Once the pasta is partly cooked, add in the whole milk, cream cheese, half the
  Parmesan cheese, pesto, sundried tomatoes, and salt and pepper. Give it a good
  stir to mix the cream cheese throughout the dish, then cover and simmer for
  another 5 minutes.
• 4 When the sauce has thickened, and the pasta is cooked to your liking, sprinkle
  on the rest of the parmesan and serve.

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