Pesto Chicken


	Pesto Chicken All you need is five ingredients to make this delicious Pesto Chicken recipe. The wonderful flavors of pesto and parmesan cheese blend together with the chicken to create a great tasting meal that you can make in 30 minutes. Panko is a Japanese style bread crumb that gives the chicken a crispy coating and the mayonnaise adds a creamy texture and helps to glue the bread crumbs to the chicken breasts. Most of the packaged boneless skinless chicken breasts you buy today come with three or four pieces that vary in thickness. You can pound the thick ones down to 1/2 thickness or you can cut the chicken breasts horizontally. Check this link on Cutting Chicken Breasts. Chicken Pesto Recipe Ingredients: 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts (1/2 inch thick) 1 tablespoon basil pesto 4 tablespoons mayonnaise 1/2 cup Panko bread crumbs 1/2 cup finely shredded Parmesan cheese Preparation: Heat oven to 400°F. Line baking sheet with foil and spray with cooking spray. Put chicken pieces one at a time in between plastic wrap or waxed paper and gently pound with flat side of meat mallet or rolling pin until 1/2-inch thick. Mix pesto and mayonnaise together and put in a dish. Mix together bread crumbs and cheese and put on a plate. Dip chicken into pesto mixture then dip in Bread Crumb mixture. Place on baking sheet. Bake 15 to 20 minutes, turning once, until juice of chicken is clear when center of thickest part is cut (165°F) and coating is golden brown. Return from Pesto Chicken to Quick Easy Chicken Recipes Or go to Easy Chicken Recipes Home Page	Basic Chicken Salad Recipe Chicken Stir Fry Recipe Spicy Fried Chicken Answers To Raising Chickens
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