How to Cook Perfect Pesto Chicken and Rice

Pesto Chicken and Rice.

You can cook Pesto Chicken and Rice using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Pesto Chicken and Rice

1. It's 1/4 cup of pesto sauce.
2. Prepare 1/2 cup of pesto tomato sauce.
3. Prepare 2 of chicken breast.
4. It's 2 cup of uncle bens brown rice.
5. You need 1 tsp of lemon juice.
6. You need 1/4 cup of grated parmesean cheese.
7. Prepare 1 pinch of ground black pepper.
8. You need 1 pinch of parsley flakes.
9. You need 3/4 cup of mozza cheese.
10. Prepare 1 head of broccoli.
11. Prepare 2 tsp of butter or margarine.
12. It's 1 pinch of garlic salt.

Pesto Chicken and Rice step by step

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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