Grammy's Kitchen · Pesto Pasta · Kale Pesto Chicken Pasta
One of 155 pesto pasta recipes we measured
from www.delish.com
It ranks #1 of 155 for brightness among the pesto pasta recipes we compared. 1 cooks on www.delish.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 155.
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Adapts cleanly: egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| kosher salt | |
| 454 g | 1 lb. box dry pasta |
| 14 g | 1 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil |
| 454 g | 1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts |
| 2 c. chopped kale | |
| 100 g | 1 c. fresh basil, plus more for garnish |
| 58 g | 1/2 c. chopped walnuts |
| 108 g | 1/2 c. extra-virgin olive oil |
| 67 g | 2/3 c. freshly grated Parmesan, plus more for garnish |
| 9 g | 3 cloves garlic, minced |
| Juice of 1 lemon | |
| 242 g | 1 c. cherry tomatoes, halved |
| 112 g | 1 c. small fresh mozzarella balls |
Method: 5 steps, published by www.delish.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“<p>This recipe is soooo good! Make sure to pound the chicken breasts so they are uniform in thickness for easier cooking. The homemade pesto is awesome and can be used in other recipes that call for basil pesto. I use rotini or similar for the pasta. This reci” — a cook, 5★