Chicken and spinach pesto linguine. This fresh and flavorful spinach pesto sauce makes an attractive sauce for linguine or spaghetti. Serve the pasta with a salad and pass the Parmesan. Serve the pasta as a meat-free main dish or add some diced cooked chicken or ham.

Toss with linguine and lemon zest for a refreshing dinner. Combine the spinach, pine nuts, lemon juice, and lemon peel in a processor. Linguine with spinach-herb pesto has a thick emerald sauce that beautifully coats the flat noodles and provides big flavor in every forkful. You can cook Chicken and spinach pesto linguine using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chicken and spinach pesto linguine

It's 2 of chicken breasts.
You need 400 g of cooked linguine.
You need 500 g of baby leaf spinach.
It's 50 g of toasted cashews.
You need 4 of garlic cloves.
It's 50 g of grated Parmesan.
Prepare 3 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil.
You need of Salt and pepper.

Here is a lovely twist on beloved pesto for spring. Baby spinach takes the place of most of the basil to give the sauce an earthy flavor. This spinach pesto comes together in just minutes while the pasta cooks. It's quick, easy, and delicious — what more could you ask for out of a weeknight-friendly dinner recipe?

Chicken and spinach pesto linguine instructions

Blitz together your spinach, cashews, garlic, Parmesan and olive oil in a nutri bullet or similar blender until you get a smooth pesto..
Dice up your chicken breasts and cook through. Set aside..
Cook your pasta and combine the chicken and pesto sauce..
Enjoy !!!.

In blender or food processor, combine spinach, oil, Parmesan cheese, parsley, garlic, salt and basil. Blend at medium speed or process until finely chopped. My daughter created this dish with an added desi twist! The full recipe is actually on the vlog, admittedly the dish was extremely nice and flavourful. Refrigerated pasta, pesto and chicken—plus frozen peas—help get dinner on the table fast!