🍝 Pesto Chicken Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes

Pasta with golden strips of chicken, basil pesto and cherry tomatoes. A weeknight dinner ready in 20 minutes.
⏱️ 20 min🍽️ 2 servings👩🍳 Easy🔥 666 kcal per serving💪 41 g protein per serving
Ingredients
- 200 g dried pasta
- 250 g chicken breast
- 70 g green pesto
- 150 g cherry tomatoes
- 1 tsp olive oil
- to taste salt
Method, step by step
- Cook the pasta in salted water according to the packet.
- Cut the chicken into strips, season and brown in a frying pan with the oil for 6-7 minutes.
- Add the halved cherry tomatoes and cook for 2 more minutes.
- Drain the pasta, keeping a cup of the cooking water, and toss it with the chicken, pesto and a splash of the reserved water.
- Serve straight away.
Nutritional information (per serving)
666
kcal
41 g
protein
76 g
carbs
22 g
fat
Values are approximate.
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