Pasta: Chicken, Mushrooms And Pesto

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 8 ounces penne pasta
• 8 ounces button mushrooms, sliced
• 1/4 cup pine nuts
• 1 skinless chicken breast half
• salt
• pepper
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1/4 cup prepared pesto sauce (use pesto (food processor))
• 1 roma tomato, seeded and diced

Recipe

• 1 cook the pasta according to package directions in plenty of boiling, salted water. drain and return to pot.
• 2 meanwhile, cook the mushrooms over medium high heat in a dry skillet, until they have given off liquid, and it evaporates.
• 3 add the pine nuts and cook until they are toasted.
• 4 cut the chicken into small cubes (this works better if it is just slightly frozen. season lightly with salt and pepper.
• 5 add the olive oil to the skillet, and then cooking the chicken until no longer pink.
• 6 add the mixture from the skillet, and the pesto, to the pasta in the pot, and toss well.
• 7 add the diced tomato just before serving.