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Arugula pesto made with fresh arugula leaves, garlic, olive oil, walnuts, and Parmesan cheese. A great way to use it up is by making an arugula pesto. By the way, gardeners out there, if you ever plant arugula, be warned, it grows like a weed!
Bacon-Arugula Pesto Chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Bacon-Arugula Pesto Chicken is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook bacon-arugula pesto chicken using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Bacon-Arugula Pesto Chicken:
- Take 4 boneless chicken breasts
- Get 3/4 oz fresh basil
- Make ready 4 handfuls arugula
- Get 1 packages unflavored bacon
- Take 6 clove garlic; peeled
- Prepare 3 oz pine nuts
- Take 3 oz parmesan; grated
- Take 1/2 cup red wine vinegar
- Make ready 1 pinch sugar
- Prepare 1 salt and pepper
- Take 1 extra virgin olive oil; as needed
This chicken thigh recipe is a take on healthy comfort food, when you want something warm and delicious but also won't make you fall asleep after lunch. Bacon Chicken and Arugula Sandwich - the perfect sandwich for a snack or a healthy lunch. So just to clarify, it's not chicken bacon, it's real pork bacon and chicken in this sandwich. Not that you couldn't use chicken bacon, but this sandwich here is the real thing.
Steps to make Bacon-Arugula Pesto Chicken:
- Place bacon on a baking tray. Bake at 350° for approximately 25-30 minutes or until bacon is crispy and has rendered all the fat. Remove bacon and pat dry. Save bacon fat.
- Place pine nuts in large, dry saute pan. Turn heat to medium. Toss pine nuts around often to avoid burning. Once golden brown, remove from heat and place in food processor.
- Add cheese, basil, garlic, sugar, salt, pepper, and one handful of arugula to the food processor.
- Turn processor on and slowly pour the bacon fat into the processor. Add olive oil until arugula is incorporated. Stop the processor and add another handful of arugula. Turn the processor back on and slowly pour olive oil until arugula is incorporated. Repeat until arugala is gone. Adjust salt, pepper, and vinegar to taste.
- Toss chicken breasts with olive oil in a mixing bowl. Place on the same sheet tray that you used to cook the bacon. Season with dried spices. Roast at 350° for approximately 45-50 minutes or until chicken reaches 165°. Baste sauce atop chicken during last 5 minutes of cooking.
- Garnish with extra sauce and chopped bacon.
- Variations; Cilantro, parsley, tarragon, spinach, watercress, kale, other vinegar, mustard, wine, roasted tomatoes or bell peppers
I added some grilled chicken, tomatoes, chopped bacon, and a sprinkling of asiago. I highly suggest trying the pesto with bacon. Pesto Pasta With Chicken, Asparagus & Arugula. Of course, being the carb-loving girl that I am, I'm never one to turn down pasta — especially when pesto is involved. To most people, pesto means one thing: pesto Genovese, the famous and fabulous basil paste from the Italian Riviera But there are sauces made with copious amounts of Ingredients.
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