Recipe: Yummy Creamy Chicken Pesto & Bowtie Pasta from Philadelphia Cooking Creme

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Creamy Chicken Pesto & Bowtie Pasta from Philadelphia Cooking Creme. All the flavors of Italian pesto (fresh basil, pine nuts, Parmesan, and garlic) in a simple creamy sauce. Also works well with thinly sliced pork tenderloin. Add a splash of milk or cream for a slightly thinner sauce.

Creamy Chicken Pesto & Bowtie Pasta
from Philadelphia Cooking Creme Season chicken with salt and pepper, and rub chicken with the basil pesto. Heat olive oil in a large nonstick skillet. Creamy Pesto Chicken is easy to make and SO DELICIOUS. You can cook Creamy Chicken Pesto & Bowtie Pasta from Philadelphia Cooking Creme using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Creamy Chicken Pesto & Bowtie Pasta from Philadelphia Cooking Creme

  1. It's of boneless, skinless chicken breasts cut into bite sized pieces. I used chicken thighs.
  2. It's of frozen peas. I used a can instead of frozen..
  3. You need of red pepper strips.
  4. Prepare of Philadelphia Creamy Pesto Cooking Creme. (10 oz). These come in containers..
  5. You need of hot cooked bowtie pasta. I used 1/2 box..
  6. You need of Kraft Shredded Mozarella Cheese. I used parm. on top when plated..

It's made with a cashew butter cream sauce so it's completely dairy-free. It's so rich and creamy that you'd never guess this is a healthy recipe! Chicken: In this recipe, I use boneless and skinless chicken breast cut into bite sized pieces. Chicken thighs can also be used.

Creamy Chicken Pesto & Bowtie Pasta from Philadelphia Cooking Creme instructions

  1. Cook and stir chicken in large skillet on meduum heat 5-7 min or until done. Add peas & pepper strips; cook 2-3 min, or until heated through, stirring ocassionally. ( I boiled my skinless thighs in onion, carrots so I could have the broth. Boul for 1 hr. for thighs or until done. debone and cut into pieces. add to skillet with no broth)..
  2. Cook your pasta. I cooked mine in broth from thighs..
  3. added my peas & peppers at this point..
  4. add Phil. Creamy Pesto Cooking Creme and drained, cooked pasta..
  5. Simmer, stirring ocassionally, until cooking creme is hot. We like ours thinner so I usually add 3/4 C of milk to thin sauce. While it's hot it may seem then but thickens when cooled..
  6. Top with cheese..

Pesto Sauce: On really busy days, when my time is limited, using store-bought pesto makes this dish even quicker and easier. Get a good quality pesto sauce. My favorite is Costco's Kirkland brand. Creamy Pesto Chicken Pasta- To make this into a pasta dish, just add al dente pasta to the pesto cream sauce and toss. Then add the chicken back in and serve together.