Zucchini Noodles with Pesto Chicken and Garlic Alfredo sauce.
Zucchini Noodles with Pesto & Chicken. Once the spiralized zucchini has time to soak up the herby pesto sauce, this chicken and pesto pasta makes Maybe add some garlic salt but so easy. Ready so quick and very tasty.
Everyone loves a good creamy garlic alfredo sauce, but sure, it's decadent and sometimes we want to eat it more often!
There's a way to enjoy chicken alfredo with less guilt and it's by using zucchini noodles!
This video is for Zucchini Noodle Chicken Alfredo Recipe.
You can have Zucchini Noodles with Pesto Chicken and Garlic Alfredo sauce using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Zucchini Noodles with Pesto Chicken and Garlic Alfredo sauce
- It's 2 of stems of kale (use just the leaves).
- You need 2 leaves of fresh cilantro.
- You need 1/8 cup of sunflower seeds.
- Prepare 1/2 Tbs of minced garlic.
- Prepare 1 Tbs of Salt.
- Prepare 1 Tbs of Black Pepper.
- You need 2 of Zucchini (spiralized).
- It's 1 cup of grated parmesan cheese.
- Prepare 1 Tbs of extra virgin olive oil.
- Prepare 6 of chicken strips or 3 pc boneless breast.
- You need 1/2 jar of garlic alfredo sauce.
Lightened Up Chicken Alfredo gets a healthier make-over with zucchini noodles, a light Alfredo sauce, and plenty of herbs and spices.
Chicken Alfredo is always one of my favorite comfort food fixes.
It always reminds me of when I worked as a Pastry Chef for an Italian restaurant in San Diego.
Quick and easy, sautéed zucchini noodles tossed with pesto, chicken and tomatoes.
Zucchini Noodles with Pesto Chicken and Garlic Alfredo sauce instructions
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Making the Pesto:
•Add the leaves of kale, chopped if desired, into the blender or food processor. Add cilantro, 1/3 cup of parmesan cheese, pinch of salt, pinch of pepper, and 1/4 Tbs of minced garlic. Blend on low, it should still be coarse.
•Add 1/8 cup Sunflower seeds, continue to blend.
• Add 2/3 Tbs extra virgin olive oil periodically as it blends completely.(The last 1/3 Tbs is for the pan.).
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Chop chicken into cubes.
• Add 1/3 Tbs of olive oil to the pan on medium heat.
•Add the rest of your minced garlic to pan and simmer for 1 minute.
•Add pesto, chicken and cook through.
•Add salt and pepper to taste.
• After the pesto chicken is cooked, set aside..
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Peal the 2 Zucchini or dont, and spiralize it.
• 1/4 Tbs of minced garlic to medium heated pan and simmer for a few minutes.
• Add Zucchini noodles and cooked chicken to medium heated pan with garlic and cook for 3 minutes.
• Add 1/2 jar of garlic alfredo sauce to Zucchini noodles and simmer for 3 minutes.
• Add 1/3 cup of parmesan cheese. Toss noodles and chicken.
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Total cook time for noodles in sauce should be 5-7 minutes total..
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Finish dish with the rest of parmesan cheese. Plate and enjoy!.
Add the zucchini noodles and the sliced garlic and sauté, stirring often, until the noodles begin to wilt.
Try my chicken zucchini noodles with pesto, chicken zucchini with garlic and corn, or one of the most popular recipes, zucchini bake with garlic I did a quick sauce which was soy mixed with apple cider vinegar and oil to replace the lime juice and chili peppers and wow!
Thank you for the inspo. Zoodles & Other Noodles.
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