Garlic Pesto Chicken With Tomato Creme Penne

I made this dish last night and I have to say I wasn't very crazy about the chicken. I thought it was way too salty. My husband liked it though and my kids ate it without complaining. However, I really enjoyed the pasta. My baby ended up eating 3 helpings of this meal.

 Garlic Pesto Chicken With Tomato Creme Penne

1/2 bottle of lawrys Herb and Garlic Marinade
2 large spoonfuls of Pesto
2 boneless chicken breasts.

 

Cut chicken into one inch strips. Using same knife make slits into chicken. Pour lawrys marinade and pesto over chicken. Marinate over night (I did mine Sunday morning and cooked mine Monday evening so it marinated a while!!)

 

Sauce:
8 ounces of your choice of pasta (I used whole wheat penne)
2 tablespoons of olive oil
3 cloves of garlic
2 spoonfuls of pesto
1/2 cup of water with 1/4 t. of Shirley J's Chicken Bouillon
8 ounces of tomato sauce
1/4 c. Whisk bliss and 1 c. water (prepare in a sauce pan then add)

 

Boil water and start on noodles.

Pour entire batch of chicken, marinade and all, into skillet and cook chicken fully (the marinade will evaporate/cook down)

Heat olive oil, cook garlic. Add pesto. Simmer in chicken broth until half has cooked down. Add tomato sauce. Then add whisk bliss sauce. Simmer for 5 minutes. Toss pasta in. Add more Whisk Bliss (dry) if it needs to be thickened. Place chicken on top.

 

I found this recipe here.

This is the pasta.

This is the way the sauce, for the pasta, looked before I added the Whisk Bliss to it.