One-Pan Pesto Chicken and Veggies – boneless, skinless chicken thighs cooked with sun-dried tomatoes, asparagus, cherry tomatoes in a delicious basil pesto sauce. Everything is done in one pan, 30 minutes recipe from start to finish!
Chicken deliciously smothered with basil pesto sauce and served along delicious vegetables. Healthy, gluten free, Mediterranean style recipe, packed with fiber (vegetables) and protein (chicken).
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- To make this Summer Basil Pesto Tomato Mozzarella Chicken Bake all you do is just pile all the ingredients on top of the chicken breasts in a baking dish and then bake everything in the oven.
- Use that tortellini you see in the store all the time. Combine tortellini with chicken, basil pesto, and veggies in this easy Pesto Tortellini with Chicken and Veggies recipe.
This pesto chicken is a perfect meal for the hot days of the Summer – light, packed with veggies, full of bright colors, and so delicious! I love serving this pesto chicken with a fresh Summer salad, and my absolute current favorite is avocado salad with mozzarella and basil pesto. I also highly recommend this amazing beet salad with spinach, goat cheese, and cashews, and a beautiful strawberry spinach salad.
Ingredients you’ll need for this Pesto Chicken and Veggies:
olive oil
chicken thighs, boneless and skinless
sun-dried tomatoes
asparagus
basil pesto
cherry tomatoes
Yes, you’ll only need 6 ingredients for this recipe!
Look at all the colorful veggies that go into this dinner:
How to cook pesto chicken:
First, cook boneless, skinless chicken thighs (sliced into thinner strips) with sun-dried tomatoes until the chicken is completely cooked, and coat the chicken with basil pesto:
Add cherry tomatoes to the chicken in the skillet:
Cook the asparagus and combine all the ingredients together:
Delicious Pesto Chicken and Veggies. Sun-dried tomatoes, asparagus, cherry tomatoes in a delicious basil pesto sauce. 30 minutes from start to finish, everything is cooked in one pan. Gluten free, healthy, Mediterranean style recipe.
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 pound chicken thighs boneless and skinless, sliced into strips
- 1/3 cup sun-dried tomatoes drained of oil, chopped
- 1 pound asparagus ends trimmed, cut in half, if large
- 1/4 cup basil pesto
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes yellow and red, halved
- Heat a large skillet on medium heat, add 2 tablespoons olive oil, add sliced chicken thighs, season chicken generously with salt, add half of chopped sun-dried tomatoes - and cook everything on medium heat for 5-10 minutes, flipping a couple of times, until the chicken is completely cooked through. Remove the chicken and sun-dried from the skillet, leaving oil in.
- Add asparagus (ends trimmed), seasoned generously with salt, remaining half of sun-dried tomatoes, and cook on medium heat for 5-10 minutes until the asparagus cooked through. Remove asparagus to serving plate.
- Add chicken back to the skillet, add pesto, stir to coat on low-medium heat until chicken is reheated, 1 or 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Add halved cherry tomatoes, mix with the pesto and the chicken. Add chicken and tomatoes to the serving plate with asparagus.
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5 Years Ago: Spinach and Ricotta Cheese Stuffed Manicotti
Yeah this took way longer than 20 minutes of cook time. I had to cook on higher heat for longer to make sure all the chicken cooked through all the way. It was boneless and skinless as well. Dont get me wrong still delicious dish but if you do it on medium heat it’s going to take twice as long. It’s my favorite dish though now. Add a little bit of minced garlic as well for little extra taste and it was nice.
Made this for dinner tonight! So tasty. My family doesn’t like raw tomatoes so I cooked them with the asparagus. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
Christie, you are so welcome! So glad you enjoyed the recipe! 🙂
What would be the serving size of this dish? Making it for dinner tonight, looks delicious!!
made this tonight – delicious! but I think the nut. facts are incorrect ( I hope!) 32g of fat per SERVING?
Can you please confirm, or not.
Just checked the recipe, and here is the break-down of fat for the whole recipe: 28 g of fat from 2 tablespoons of olive oil, 75 g of fat from 1 pound of chicken thighs, and 23 g of fat from 1/4 cup of basil pesto. So total 126 g of fat for the whole recipe. Divided by 4 that makes about 32 g of fat per serving.
Made this tonight and it was so good! I skipped the roasted tomatoes as I’m not a fan of the texture. I did add about 3/4 of an onion and some zucchini I had left over. I also added 1/4 C of heavy cream with the pesto to make a creamer sauce. Will definitely make again!
Thank you, Melissa! So glad you liked this recipe! 🙂 Your additions of onion, zucchini and some heavy cream sound delicious!