British

Pesto Chicken with Greens

Name: Pesto Chicken with Greens
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1.5 lb chicken breast; 1/3 cup basil pesto; 3 cups broccoli florets; 1 tbsp olive oil; 1/4 cup parmesan cheese; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Simon @simon_roasts

Pesto Chicken with Greens is British home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

25 min Easy Heart healthy Gluten free Halal

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1.5 lb chicken breast
1/3 cup basil pesto
3 cups broccoli florets
1 tbsp olive oil
1/4 cup parmesan cheese
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 400F.
Season the chicken with salt and pepper, place in a baking dish, and spread the pesto thickly over the top.
Bake until cooked through, about 25 minutes.
Meanwhile steam the broccoli until just tender, about 6 minutes, and toss with the olive oil and a pinch of salt.
Scatter the chicken with the parmesan and serve hot with the broccoli alongside.

Watch how to cook Pesto Chicken with Greens

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A British dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pesto Chicken with Greens, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Cauliflower Cheese
  
  40 min
What it is eaten with
- British Mashed Potatoes
  
  30 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Pesto Chicken with Greens carries tree nuts and dairy. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Pesto Chicken with Greens
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	Yes	Bacon and Egg Pie
Dairy	Yes	Chicken Salad with New Potatoes
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 460 kcal
Protein: 59 g
Carbs: 7 g
Fat: 22 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 400 mg
Saturated fat: 6 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Pesto Chicken with Greens takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.