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Chicken & creamy pesto pasta
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Chicken & creamy pesto pasta

8 ingredients Serves 2 openrecipes

Fresh basil and creme fraiche make a mid-week pesto pasta dinner into a dish impressive enough for friends. This will become a firm favourite.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

614
Calories
42g
Protein
19g
Fat
70g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 6 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Pasta 1 cup cooked (140g) 220
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Cherry 1 cup (138g) 87
Tomato 1 medium (123g) 22
Basil 5 leaves fresh (2.5g) 1

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • Pasta - I use linguine but anything you have will do. Vary the amount depending on how hungry you are
  • 2 tbsp half-fat creme fraiche
  • 2 tbsp pesto
  • cherry tomatoes - as many as you like, halved
  • 1 courgette, chopped into slices
  • 6 x free range chicken strips - or a sliced chicken breast (2 if small)
  • olive oil
  • Fresh basil

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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