Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, cilantro pesto pasta with grilled chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Heat a grill pan over medium-high heat. Add chicken, pasta, and tomatoes to pesto; toss to combine. Cook chicken tenders quickly on the grill and top with pesto made with cilantro and sesame seeds for a zesty, speedy dinner.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook cilantro pesto pasta with grilled chicken using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Cilantro Pesto Pasta with Grilled Chicken:

1. Make ready Cilantro Pesto
2. Make ready 2 cup cilantro leaves
3. Get 1/2 cup olive oil
4. Make ready 3 clove garlic, minced
5. Get 1/4 cup pine nuts, toasted
6. Get 1/4 cup romano (or parmesan) cheese, grated
7. Prepare 1/2 tsp salt & pepper
8. Take 1 tsp lime zest
9. Get 1 tbsp lime juice
10. Take 1 lb mini farfalle (bow tie) pasta
11. Prepare 4 -6 chicken breasts
12. Make ready 1 envelope McCormick lime mojito marinade (Thanks Ray Ray, now I'm hooked! lol)

Remove the skin from the chicken drumsticks*. Place drumsticks on a platter and coat both sides with fresh lime juice, lime zest, brown sugar and spices. Season the chicken at least an hour before it goes on the grill to allow the flavours to develop. Cilantro lovers will love this pasta and chicken dish coated with fresh cilantro pesto.

Steps to make Cilantro Pesto Pasta with Grilled Chicken:

1. Mix McCormick marinade according to package directions and marinate chicken for 15-30 minutes.
2. Grill chicken on the grill outdoors or indoors on a stove top cast iron grill pan.
3. Let chicken rest for 5 to 6 minutes then cut chicken breasts into bite size pieces. Set aside.
4. Toast pine nuts in a non stick dry skillet over medium high heat until slighty toasted and golden brown stirring constantly.
5. To a blender or a food processor add all ingredients for pesto except olive oil.
6. Slowly drizzle in olive oil from the top of the blender on low speed to form a thick sauce. Set aside.
7. Cook pasta according to package directions, rinse and set aside.
8. Add pasta back to pasta pot. Mix in pesto and stir to combine thoroughly over low heat to warm. Add 3 cut up chicken breasts to pasta and pesto stirring again to incorporate well.
9. Use remaining cut up chicken breasts to garnish on top of the pasta. Can top with freshly grated romano or parmesan cheese and fresh cilantro leaves if desired.

I wasn't even sure if I would be able to post a recipe today. I have several done, and photos on my computer, but then when I sat down last night, I realized that I have no idea where my recipe notebooks are! Make cilantro pesto: combine all ingredients except oil in food processor, grind together, adding oil slowly through processor feed until a soft paste forms. I often buy fresh cilantro to use a small amount for a recipe and it's frustrating trying to find a way to use up the rest. This is a tasty and easy way to use it up.

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