Cheesy Pesto Rice 'n Chicken Bake
photo by Lavender Lynn
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 1 cup panko breadcrumbs
- 1 tablespoon melted butter
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 1 1⁄2 cups milk
- 1 cup sour cream
- 6 ounces shredded english sharp cheddar cheese
- 3 ounces crumbled blue cheese
- 1⁄4 cup prepared pesto sauce
- 1⁄4 cup diced sun-dried tomato
- 4 cups cooked brown rice
- 2 lbs boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut in to chunks or 3 chicken breasts
- freshly grated romano cheese or parmesan cheese
directions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Toss Panko crumbs in the one tablespoon of melted butter, Set aside.
- In large saucepan, melt 3 tablespoons butter over medium-high heat. Add Flour and whisk together until it starts to turn golden brown. Add milk and then sour cream.
- A little at a time, add shredded cheddar, making sure it gets completely incorporated. Add blue cheese, again making sure it gets stirred in and melted completely.
- Remove from heat and stir in Pesto, followed by remaining ingredients(except for bread crumbs and Romano cheese).
- Pour in to buttered Casserole dish. Top with Romano cheese and bread crumbs. Bake for 30 minutes, or until golden brown on top.
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Reviews
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This has many ingredients that my family loves. I was excited to try it. The directions are very well written now. For my family they loved this. For me the taste of blue cheese overwhelmed the other flavors I was wanting to taste like the pesto, tomato, cheddar cheese. If you are making this recipe and aren't sure if you want a lot of blue cheese flavor, I would cut the bleu cheese in half. Made for PRMR
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You must have re-written the recipe, because I didn't find the directions at all confusing. I do not care for blue cheese (although I'm sure it would have had a bolder flavour) so subbed some feta instead. I also admit increasing the bake time to 40 min., as I wasn't all that convinced the raw chicken would have been cooked all the way through in 30 min. We enjoyed this immensely. :)
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Although the end result was extremely tasty, largely due to the pesto and sour cream, the instructions were so confusing that I'm struggling to even remember all the adjustments I made while making this. Many instructions were split between several steps which made them confusing to understand, and I found I had to keep re-reading them. Milk didn't feature in the ingredients list but appeared in the directions and since I didn't have any on hand I decided to use some yoghurt. There was mention of 3 tablespoons of butter divided, then the directions specified melting 3 tablespoons of butter. Sorry to rate this so low, wicked cook, but this recipe really needs some re-writing so that it's easier to follow. It's certainly potentially a really good recipe. Made for Newest Zaar Tag.
Tweaks
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You must have re-written the recipe, because I didn't find the directions at all confusing. I do not care for blue cheese (although I'm sure it would have had a bolder flavour) so subbed some feta instead. I also admit increasing the bake time to 40 min., as I wasn't all that convinced the raw chicken would have been cooked all the way through in 30 min. We enjoyed this immensely. :)