Pesto Chicken and Rice
Pesto Chicken and Rice

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Pesto Chicken and Rice Recipe

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have 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. Prepare 1/2 cup pesto tomato sauce
  3. Prepare 2 chicken breast
  4. Get 2 cup uncle bens brown rice
  5. Make ready 1 tsp lemon juice
  6. Make ready 1/4 cup grated parmesean cheese
  7. Take 1 pinch ground black pepper
  8. Prepare 1 pinch parsley flakes
  9. Make ready 3/4 cup mozza cheese
  10. Prepare 1 head broccoli
  11. Take 2 tsp butter or margarine
  12. Make ready 1 pinch garlic salt

Instructions 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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