Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chicken pesto rolls up. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
To serve, remove toothpicks then plate chicken pesto roll-ups, spooning pan juices and roasted tomatoes over the top and garnish with freshly chopped basil. Serve with mashed potatoes and asparagus for a fancy (but simple) dinner! Spread pesto evenly over chicken breasts, followed by cheese and sliced tomatoes.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken pesto rolls up using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken pesto rolls up:
- Prepare large med Chicken breast
- Make ready Garlic salt
- Make ready Black pepper
- Prepare cup(8tbsp)pesto sauce
- Take shredded mozzarella cheese(reserve 2 Oz for topping)
- Make ready large or 2 medium tomatos,thinly slice into 12 rings
- Make ready cherry tomatoes,optional
- Take Fresh basil leaves, shredded,optional garnish or parsley
- Get olive oil
- Make ready butter
Place in a lightly greased baking dish. Season each chicken breast and cover with clingfilm. Lay them all in a rectangle on another sheet of clingfilm (no gaps) and cover with two sheets height of mozzarella, then spread with pesto and carefully roll up. Spread the pesto on the chicken, and roll up tightly, securing the rolls closed with toothpicks.
Steps to make Chicken pesto rolls up:
- Cut each the chicken breast in half lengthwise to make 8 thin cutlets, pound each cutlet to an eighth of an inch thickness. The easiest and cleanest way to do this is using Ziploc bag
- Arrange all of your cutlets on a large cutting board or u using baking sheet and seasons both sides with garlic salt and black pepper
- Place a tbsp of pesto sauce each cutlet and spread it evenly in the center
- Very thinly slice one large tomato into 12 rings and u need 2 slices for each chicken cutlet
- Sprinkle the top with 2 or 3 tbsp of shredded mozzarella cheese
- Tightly roll up each cutlet and secure the end with a toothpick
- Preheat oven to 425° and place a large oven safe skillet over medium-high heat with 1tbsp of olive oil and 1 tbsp of butter. Once the butter is done sizzling add the chicken roll ups with the toothpick side up. Dear the roll ups 4 minutes per side or 8 Mon of total cooking time on the stove
- Turn of the stove and sprinkle the tops with Ur remaining mozzarella cheese and 1 cup cherry tomatoes. Transfer to the oven and bake at 425° for 13 to 15 minutes until the chicken is fully cooked through
- Add garnish fresh basil
Spread some flour on a plate, and lightly dredge the rolls in flour, tapping off the excess. A spicy chicken and pesto pasta dish that's easy to adjust to any heat level. I created it after eating a similar dish at a Santa Monica restaurant, and it's one of my favorites. Serve with additional grated Parmesan, if desired. Cooking the chicken breasts in advance saves time in recipe preparation.
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