Get the App

Recipes

Find a Recipe Blue Ribbon Recipes Pinch It!™ Feed Browse All Recipes

Editorial

Food Bites & Articles Videos What is a Blue Ribbon? Meet the Test Kitchen

Community

Member Recipes Groups Sweepstakes Contests Shopping

basil walnut pesto pasta and chicken

(1 rating)
Adashofloverecipepage avatar
Recipe by
Nor Mac
@Adashofloverecipepage
Northern, MA

I tried a reduced fat Pesto sauce recipe a while back. I didn't care for it. It lacked flavor. I decided to make one by reducing the fat. This is not a very low fat recipe. It has olive oil in it. It is a reduced fat version I made up. My family liked it. My husband being a fussy Italian ate almost 3 plates of pasta with this sauce. That says a lot. Pesto is strong alone as you know. Pesto is tough to judge unless you pair it with pasta, or bread, or in a cream sauce. I paired it in a creamy sauce stirred in to Pasta.served with garlic chicken and Broccoli. I hope you all like it.

(1 rating)
yield 6 serving(s)
prep time 10 Min
method No-Cook or Other

Ingredients For basil walnut pesto pasta and chicken

  • 1 c
    basil leaves,or more depending on what you like
  • 2 clove
    garlic
  • 1/4 c
    virgin olive oil
  • 1/4 c
    parmesan cheese
  • 2-3
    slices of bread
  • 1/2 c
    walnuts
  • 1/2-3/4 c
    sour cream
  • 1 pinch
    garlic salt
  • 1 pinch
    black pepper

How To Make basil walnut pesto pasta and chicken

  • 1
    Put basil.walnuts,and parmesan cheese in food processor. Blend well. add remaining ingredients starting with olive oil,and sour cream. You can adapt ingredients to get the flavor you are looking for.
  • 2
    Chill
  • 3
    Keep in fridge and stir in to warm pasta before serving. I do a serving at a time.
  • 4
    Cut chicken breast up. I use chicken tenders. cook in olive oil add a clove of garlic minced when chicken is almost done. Don't want to burn garlic. add garlic salt and pepper to taste. I transfer my chicken to grill to give it that grilled flavor.
  • 5
    steam broccoli.Serve brocooli and chicken on top of pasta with sauce
  • 6
    note: you may use lite sour cream and reduced calorie bread in this recipe. Originally I came up with this to reduce the calories.The bread gives it a texture as if there is more cheese in it than there really is.
  • Last Step: Don't forget to share! Make all your friends drool by posting a picture of your finished recipe on your favorite social network. And don't forget to tag Just A Pinch and include #justapinchrecipes so we can see it too!
ADVERTISEMENT