My first attempt:
Baked Pesto Chicken
1/2 c. Costco's pesto sauce, so maybe that's cheating, but it's fresh and so much more delicious than any other pesto I've ever had, so I call it good.
Two fresh chicken breasts (from Costco, they're packaged in groups of two, so it's perfect for us.)
1/2 c. Tillmook mozzarella
That's it.
Super easy:
Preheat to 375
Slice chicken breasts in half lengthwise
Spread your glass baking dish with 1/4 c of the pesto
Lay chicken breasts over the pesto
Spread remaining pesto over the chicken
Cover with foil
Bake 25-30 minutes, or until done
Add mozzarella, cook for 5 more minutes (broil if you want the cheese to brown and bubble)
This probably would have been amazing, if my meat thermometer hadn't been broken (which I discovered after about 50 minutes of baking...as it was, the sauce was good, and the chicken was...chalky.
Fail.
On the side I made these:
Sliced Baked Potatoes
These cook at a higher temp than the chicken, so I tried to cheat the system by baking them for a half hour at the appropriate temp, then lowering it when I added the chicken and cooking them 25 minutes more. Guess what happened? Oh right...they didn't cook properly.
Anyway, the how to:
As many potatoes as you want (I used 4 golden)
Slice from top to bottom, leaving just enough potato intact on the bottom to keep it from falling apart (I cut it like I would for scalloped potatoes, just not all the way through)
Drizzle with butter, olive oil, salt an pepper
Bake at 425 for 40 minutes
But, we got a pretty good idea of how they should have tasted, and we agreed they need more than oil, salt, pepper and butter. Like...all the stuff you'd put on a normal baked potato. But mostly, it needed cheese. So, there you have it.
So, though this dinner was a fiasco, I have since made several more things that were successful. Stay tuned!
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