Pesto Lemon Chicken With Crispy Kale
Recipe Ingredients
(Serves 2)
- 2 chicken breasts
Pesto: - 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 handful basil
- 1 garlic clove
- 1/2 tsp chilli flakes
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- 25g pine nuts + 25g pine nuts to top
- 200g kale
- Frylight spray
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Optional – 2 tbsp lemon water
Pesto Lemon Chicken with Crispy Kale
- Preheat your oven to 200°C
- With a rolling pin flatten the chicken and place in tin foil along with a little lemon juice, making a parcel and putting it on a tray for the oven, cook for 20 minutes
- Meanwhile make the pesto by adding to a blender the basil, pine nuts, garlic, chilli flakes, lemon juice and olive oil
- Blitz until smooth adding some lemon water to loosen the mixture if needed, taste and season accordingly
- After 13 minutes of the chicken being in the oven place the kale onto another tray and into oven with a few sprays of Frylight and salt and pepper to taste
- Once cooked remove from the oven, chop the chicken and mix with the pesto
- Serve with the kale and an extra sprinkle of pine nuts
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