Grammy's Kitchen · Pesto Pasta · Spicy Chicken Pesto Pasta
One of 155 pesto pasta recipes we measured
from www.chilipeppermadness.com
It ranks #1 of 155 for brightness among the pesto pasta recipes we compared.
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.
| 3600 g | 2 medium chicken breasts |
| 6 g | 1 tablespoon dried basil |
| 1 g | 1 teaspoon dried oregano |
| 3 g | 1 teaspoon chili powder |
| 3 g | 1 teaspoon garlic powder |
| Salt and pepper to taste | |
| 6 g | 2 cloves garlic |
| 8 g | 1/4 cup spinach |
| 25 g | 1/4 cup basil |
| 15 g | 1 roasted jalapeno pepper + extras for serving (if desired) |
| 54 g | 1/4 cup olive oil (+ a bit more for cooking) |
| 27 g | 1/4 cup pecans |
| 28 g | 1/4 cup shredded manchego cheese |
| 1 bit of pasta water (for the pesto) | |
| Cooked pasta to serve | |
| Seared asparagus spears for topping |
Method: 7 steps, published by www.chilipeppermadness.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.