This Healthy Baked Chicken Pesto recipe is packed with protein, perfect for meal prep, low in carbs, smells AND tastes delicious, and only takes around 30 minutes to make!
Tips:
- If you can’t find basil pesto, make your own by processing or blending 2 Cups Basil, 4 Tablespoons (20g) Grated Parmesan Cheese, 1/4 Cup Pine Nuts, 1 Teaspoon Minced Garlic (or 2 Cloves Garlic), 2 Tablespoons Olive Oil, and 1/4 Teaspoon Salt!
- Double or triple the recipe to last you the whole week!
Baked Chicken Pesto
This Healthy Baked Chicken Pesto recipe is packed with protein, low in carbs, smells AND tastes delicious, and only takes around 30 minutes to make!
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Calories: 359kcal
Cost: $8
What We Used
- Oven
Ingredients
- 3 Pounds Chicken Breast – 48 Ounces
- ½ Cup Pesto – 124g Basil
- ½ Cup Marinara Sauce – 126g
- 2 Sliced Tomato – Plum
- 6 Tablespoons Parmesan Cheese – 30g Grated
- ½ Cup Mozzarella Cheese – 56g Reduced Fat
Instructions
- Trim the fat off your Chicken Breast and cut them in half the long way
- Take out a baking dish and add your Chicken Breast into it (make sure to use a dish that allows everything to fit snug)
- Evenly distribute your Basil Pesto, Marinara, and Sliced Plum Tomatoes on top
- Cover your dish with aluminum foil
- Bake on 375F/190C for 25 minutes
- Take your chicken out and uncover it
- Top it with your Parmesan and Mozzarella Cheese
- Bake uncovered for another 10 minutes on 375F/190C
Video
Notes
Calories in the WHOLE recipe:
- Calories: 2154
- Fat: 90g
- Saturated Fat: 19g
- Sodium: 1420mg
- Carbs: 26g
- Fiber: 3g
- Sugar: 17g
- Protein: 310g
- Calories: 359
- Fat: 15g
- Saturated Fat: 3.1g
- Sodium: 236.6mg
- Carbs: 4.3g
- Fiber: .5g
- Sugar: 2.8g
- Protein: 51.6g
Nutrition
Calories: 359kcal | Carbohydrates: 4.3g | Protein: 51.6g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 3.1g | Sodium: 236.6mg | Fiber: 0.5g | Sugar: 2.8g
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just made this for dinner tonight smells and tastes amazing
Hello Derek! I really appreciate you making videos and creating recipes for us. I hope you get to hear that you are appreciated every day from your fans and people from the community. Thank you for not promoting anything and just purely doing the recicpes and coming up with fun ways to eat healthy.
Thanks vi! Much love! <3
Boyfriend made this for the second time (he loves your site!) and once again it was deliciously amazing! I’m officially hooked 🙂
Love it Kim! 🙂 Thanks for the wonderful feedback!
Another winner! Very tasty!
I made this dish last night it was quick, easy, and my favorite inexpensive. I love recipes that have ingredients I already use on a regular basis. This was tasty and it smells devine. Thanks Derek it was delicious.
Wonderful to hear Cora! Thank you for the feedback 🙂
This recipe is so good . My son , husband and I loved it . I make and freeze sundried tomato pesto at the end of every summer because our basil plants grow like crazy . I’m always looking for great recipes to use my pesto and this is definitely a favorite . So easy also . Thank you Mr. Howes !
Hey Derek, I’ve been following your site and getting recipes since 2014/2015 and to this day your website is still my favorite. I’m glad I get to save them to Pinterest for later now! Thank you for sharing with us!!
Thank you Jessie, you rock!!! Always trying to improve.