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Showing posts with label Pesto Feta Chicken. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pesto Feta Chicken. Show all posts

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Pesto Feta Chicken

My neighbor told me about this chicken that is delicious!! She actually found it in a weight watcher cookbook, but you would never really know it (*hint - your husbands/boyfriends won't notice) 
Ingredients

Mix the feta and pesto together

Slit the chicken down the middle and stuff it with the pesto mix - I used toothpicks to keep them closed

I served it with new roasted potatoes and it was so good! 
A really good salad also went great with it...
Ingredients:
  • 1/2 cup crumbled fat-free feta cheese
  • 2 tbsp pesto sauce
  • 3-4 skinless, boneless organic chicken breasts
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • basil, black pepper
To make the stuffing, you’ll want to mix the feta and pesto in a bowl. I mixed mine fairly thoroughly so that the stuffing was mushy and not too clumpy. Then, I slit pockets in the sides of the chicken breasts. You’ll want to make sure that you don’t cut all the way through– just enough to make a little pita-like pocket. Then, evenly divide the stuffing between the chicken breasts.
The recipe directions were to heat up the olive oil in a large, nonstick skillet. Cook the chicken until browned and cooked through, which should take roughly 6-8 minutes. Once cooked, sprinkle the breasts with black pepper and basil to taste. I decided to bake my chicken in the oven for about 30 minutes and it turned out wonderful!

enjoy... :)