When you need a quick lunch or dinner, a chicken pesto pasta salad is super easy to throw together and can be enjoyed hot or cold. Pasta salad is a great make ahead lunch too. Prepare a big batch on ...

Both work fine. Once the pasta is cooked, strain and stir in the pesto. Add the peas and cooked chicken. Serve immediately. If you want to enjoy this as a cold salad, allow the meal to cool ...

Chicken, shrimp, and marinated tofu also fit right into a pesto pasta salad and help give it some main-course heft. Top it up with some roasted nuts, ideally pine but walnuts, almonds, or cashews ...

tomato halves and pesto chicken. Season with salt and pepper. (If assembling ahead, do not add salt until just before serving.) Scatter over the toasted pine nuts, micro salad and basil leaves to ...

About Pesto Penne Pasta with Smoked Chicken Recipe: Nothing like fresh pesto sauce! Toss it up with penne and throw in some smoked chicken and plump cherry tomatoes, and you have an immensely ...

Enter nutritionist Zoe Bingley-Pullin's buckwheat pasta salad with pea pesto and leftover chicken. This fresh and vibrant dish is gluten-free, dairy-free and ready in just 25 minutes, making it ...

2. Add the basil, lemon juice and hot chicken stock to the slow cooker and blitz using a hand-held stick blender. 3. Add your pasta, stir, then place the lid back on and cook on high for 40 ...

Place the chicken breast in the bowl and cover. Refrigerate 15 minutes. Step 2: Meanwhile, make the pesto: Combine macadamia nuts, arugula, and garlic in a food processor. Pulse until the mixture ...

Fresh pesto in tubs ... into freshly cooked pasta, spooned on to thick soups, spread on bruschetta, fillets of fish or chicken before grilling, or added to mayonnaise and salad dressings.

2. Add the basil, lemon juice and hot chicken stock to the slow cooker and blitz using a hand-held stick blender. 3. Add your pasta, stir, then place the lid back on and cook on high for 40 ...