Flaky Pastry Pesto Chicken
Flaky Pastry Pesto Chicken

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, flaky pastry pesto chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have flaky pastry pesto chicken using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Flaky Pastry Pesto Chicken:
  1. Get 320 g puff pastry
  2. Get 4 skinless chicken breasts
  3. Make ready 4 heaped tsp green pesto
  4. Prepare 400 g cherry tomatoes on the vine
  5. Make ready 400 g green beans

I was thinking the exact same thing! Add the pesto sauce and tomatoes to the chicken and stir to mix. Spoon equal amounts of the chicken mixture onto the pastry sheets, covering half of each sheet but leaving a gap at the edge to seal the pastry. Top the chicken mixture with the grated mozzarella cheese.

Instructions to make Flaky Pastry Pesto Chicken:
  1. Preheat the oven to 220C
  2. Unroll the pastry, cut it in half lengthways, then cut each half widthways into 8 equal strips.
  3. Flatten the chicken breasts by pounding with you fists until the fat ends are the same thickness as the skinny ends.
  4. Place them in a roasting tray, season, spread over the pesto, then lay 4 overlapping strips of pastry over each breast, tucking them under the edges. Brush with a little olive oil.
  5. Lightly dress the tomato vines in olive oil, season and put into a second tray. place the chicken tray on the top shelf of the oven with the tomatoes below, and cook for 20 minutes, or until the pastry is golden and the chicken is cooked through.
  6. Meanwhile, line up the beans, trim off just the stalk ends, the cook in a pan of boiling salted water for 7 minutes, or until tender.
  7. Remove the chicken to a board with half of the tomatoes, squashing the rest in the tray and discarding the vines.
  8. Drain and toss in the beans, taste and season to perfection. Slice the chicken at an angle and serve on top of the beans, with the whole tomatoes

Spoon equal amounts of the chicken mixture onto the pastry sheets, covering half of each sheet but leaving a gap at the edge to seal the pastry. Top the chicken mixture with the grated mozzarella cheese. Fold pastry sheet around chicken, using fingers or fork to seal pastry seam. Place chicken seam side down on baking sheet. Flatten chicken breasts by pounding with your fist until the fat ends are the same thickness as the skinny ends.

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