Easy Pesto Chicken
Ingredients
- 6-8 boneless skinless chicken breasts (I like them fairly thin for this recipe and I buy them locally, where I know the chickens are given no hormones, and they're out on pasture.)
- 1 cup basil pesto – here's a recipe for super easy pesto
- Thick slices of mozzarella cheese – one for each piece of chicken I'll use shredded sometimes, too
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350* F/175* C. Then butter a baking pan and lay out chicken pieces. Put 2-3 tablespoons of pesto onto each chicken breast.
- Bake uncovered 35-40 minutes, place a piece of cheese onto each piece of chicken, then back into the oven for another 5-10 minutes to melt the cheese (I just made it again and put the cheese on before it went into the oven and in 35 minutes the chicken was done and the cheese was golden brown. The timing will depend on how thick your chicken is.) Adjust the times as needed for your oven to make sure your chicken is done, but not over-done and dried out.