Recipe: Perfect Pesto baked chicken thighs

Pesto baked chicken thighs. Pesto Baked Chicken Thighs. © Todd Porter & Diane Cu. Paired with crusty bread and a simple salad, these easy chicken thighs are perfect for a weeknight dinner. Bone-in chicken thighs are budget friendly and well suited to roasting.

Deliciously seasoned chicken thighs are added to an oiled hot cast iron skillet and cooked until just browned on both sides. This Easy Baked Pesto Chicken is a tasty dinner that you can make with purchased pesto if you don't have any in the freezer. When I first made Easy Baked Pesto Chicken, I loved what a great low-carb dinner it was but I'm not sure I ever imagined it would become one of the most popular recipes on the. You can have Pesto baked chicken thighs using 5 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Pesto baked chicken thighs

1. Prepare 1/4 cup of prepared pesto.
2. You need 3 of tbls. olive oil.
3. You need of salt.
4. Prepare of pepper.
5. You need 2 of lbs. boneless skinless chicken thighs.

This easy Baked Pesto Chicken is a fast dish made with chicken breasts, pesto, tomatoes, mozzarella and Parmesan cheese. What To Serve with Baked Pesto Chicken. I like to serve this with salad or zucchini noodles to keep it low-carb but you can also serve it over pasta. Place chicken breast in a baking dish.

Pesto baked chicken thighs instructions

1. Preheat over to 375. Stir pesto oil salt pepper together and add chicken. Stir until all chicken has pasto all over.let set 15 mins on counter..
2. Place on tin foil lined baking sheet. Spread whatever pesto is left in bowl smear all over chicken. Bake for 20min..
3. Flip chicken bake for another 10 mins or until done..

Season chicken with salt and pepper, to taste. Spread pesto on each chicken breast. Layer tomatoes on top of the chicken. Fast easy meal to put together with prepackaged pesto! Place chicken and pesto in medium bowl; toss to coat.

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