Chicken Pesto Pasta
"CSA veggies to use up - leftover chicken to use up - good stuff!"
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 2 cups cooked chopped chicken
- 4 cups raw kale
- 4 cups raw spinach
- 4 ounces parmesan cheese
- 1⁄4 cup chopped walnuts
- 1⁄4 cup olive oil
- 1⁄2 cup garlic scape
- 8 ounces whole wheat pasta
directions
- Place parmesan, kale, spinach, walnuts, garlic scapes and olive oil in food processor - process til smooth.
- Cook whole wheat pasta in boiling water.
- Drain- reserving 1/4 c pasta water.
- Place chicken in pan pasta was cooked in - allow to warm slightly.
- Mix pasta, pasta water and 1/2 pesto in with chicken.
- Enjoy!
- Note - garlic scapes are the curly tops garlic plants sprout early spring. Use minced garlic to taste if not available.
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<br>2 furbabies - my wonderful wonderful labs - Morgan a 6yo choc male - the love and delight of my life and Harley, his 4 yo black sis, my only true blond!
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<br>Great SU - most supportive man I've ever known - Paul - who would like it best if I only fixed meat and potatoes, but is willing to eat anything.
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<br>If I can't be cooking I read cookbooks - and anyone who has the privledge of owning a copy of "Southern Cooking for Everyday Living" owns a great book written by my great aunt - now deceased - Billie Wilson.
