Grilled Pesto Chicken
From Cook's Country
To make our pesto chicken actually taste like pesto, it took a three-pronged approach. Starting with a batch of homemade pesto, we thicken a portion with extra Parmesan cheese to make a stuffing for bone-in, skin-on chicken breasts that wouldn’t leak out. A cheese-less portion of the pesto functions as a marinade, flavoring the outside of the meat. Finally, cheesy pesto, thinned out to sauce consistency, is served with the chicken for one last hit of fresh basil flavor.
Serves 4
Note that the pesto base is divided into three separate mixtures for marinating, stuffing, and saucing the grilled chicken.
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