Pan Cooked Chicken with Cream of Pistachio

If you love pistachio like we do, you’ll find all ways to use it in your cooking. This pan cooked chicken recipe is the perfect example! We are making a quick dinner featuring chicken, pistachio pesto and a few wholesome ingredients. It’s going to turn into your weekday dinner of dreams.

Let’s make it together.

Pan Cooked Chicken With Pistachio Recipe

Gather your ingredients and start making this delicious quick recipe.

Pan Cooked Chicken With Cream of Pistachio

This pan cooked chicken features a savoury pistachio pesto cream and a few other wholesome ingredients. You'll love this easy recipe!

Course Main Course

Cuisine Italian

Keyword pan cooked chicken, pistachio pesto

Prep Time 40

Total Time 40

Servings 2

Author Alessia

Equipment

1 large pan with lid
1 medium pan
1 chopping board
1 knife
1 spatula
1 tablespoon

Ingredients

2-4 chicken fillets depending on size
2 tbsp Belmorso Sicilian 60% Pistachio Pesto
200 ml cooking cream
salt and pepper
drizzle of Belmorso Extra Virgin Olive Oil
2 cloves garlic
cherry tomatoes as many as you want, since this is going to be your main side dish.
2 tbsp flour

Instructions

Season the chicken fillets and coat with some flour or corn starch.
Cook them in a pan in some EVOO for few minutes on both sides. Take them off the pan.
In the same pan add the cooking cream and the pistachio pesto, mix and leave to cook over medium heat.
Then add the chicken breast, coat with the pistachio cream, cover with a lid, lower the heat, and leave to cook for 20 minutes.
In the meantime, cut the cherry tomatoes in half, mince the garlic, add to another pan with some EVOO, salt and pepper and leave them too cook until nice and juicy.
Take everything off the heat, and serve the chicken along the cherry tomatoes.