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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cilantro pesto pasta with grilled chicken using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Cilantro Pesto Pasta with Grilled Chicken:
- Get Cilantro Pesto
- Prepare cilantro leaves
- Make ready olive oil
- Get garlic, minced
- Prepare pine nuts, toasted
- Make ready romano (or parmesan) cheese, grated
- Get salt & pepper
- Prepare lime zest
- Make ready lime juice
- Get mini farfalle (bow tie) pasta
- Prepare -6 chicken breasts
- Get McCormick lime mojito marinade (Thanks Ray Ray, now I'm hooked! lol)
Steps to make Cilantro Pesto Pasta with Grilled Chicken:
- Mix McCormick marinade according to package directions and marinate chicken for 15-30 minutes.
- Grill chicken on the grill outdoors or indoors on a stove top cast iron grill pan.
- Let chicken rest for 5 to 6 minutes then cut chicken breasts into bite size pieces. Set aside.
- Toast pine nuts in a non stick dry skillet over medium high heat until slighty toasted and golden brown stirring constantly.
- To a blender or a food processor add all ingredients for pesto except olive oil.
- Slowly drizzle in olive oil from the top of the blender on low speed to form a thick sauce. Set aside.
- Cook pasta according to package directions, rinse and set aside.
- Add pasta back to pasta pot. Mix in pesto and stir to combine thoroughly over low heat to warm. Add 3 cut up chicken breasts to pasta and pesto stirring again to incorporate well.
- Use remaining cut up chicken breasts to garnish on top of the pasta. Can top with freshly grated romano or parmesan cheese and fresh cilantro leaves if desired.
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