All you need to make simple chicken and potatoes into a tasty supper is prepared pesto. For a full dinner, serve along with a side salad.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 40 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
Ingredients
- 1 pound mini red potatoes, cut into 1-inch pieces
- ¼ cup prepared pesto, divided
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken thighs
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
- Mix potatoes with 1/2 of the pesto in a bowl. Transfer potatoes to an 11×13-inch baking dish.
- Place chicken thighs the same bowl. Unfold chicken and rub remaining pesto all over. Fold thighs back up into original shape and place into the baking dish next to potatoes.
- Bake in the preheated oven, stirring potatoes occasionally, until potatoes are soft when pieced with a fork and chicken is no longer pink in the center and the juices run clear, 28 to 30 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the chicken should read at least 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).
- Season with salt and pepper before serving.
- If you like extra-soft potatoes, microwave cubed potatoes for 3 minutes before tossing with pesto in Step 2.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 264 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 19 g |
| Cholesterol | 44 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 16 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 197 mg |
| Sugars | 1 g |
| Fat | 14 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Amazing flavor and so easy to prepare. I baked it for 40 minutes stirring the potatoes every 10 minutes. I also did microwave the potatoes for a minute before tossing in the pesto. I will be making this a lot from now on.
Not much taste and potatoes didn’t cook all the way through.
Great one dish meal
We really enjoyed it. It was one note as mentioned in reviews. But we love the Vegan Kale, Basil Pesto from Trader Joes. I did 4 chicken quarters. which I divided. and had red, and yukon gold potatoes. so we could have 6 servings. so used 6 T. of pesto since more chicken and 1 1/2 # potatoes.
It was easy & delicious! I followed the recipe exactly as posted. Will definitely make this again!
Easy and whole family enjoyed it
I think this would be good for just the potatoes or just the chicken. Having both in the pesto was pesto overload! If I make this again, it will be for one or the other, so I can taste something besides pesto. Otherwise very easy to make.
This was an okay recipe but since everything tastes like pesto, there wasn’t any pop of flavor. Yes, I know it’s in the name but we love pesto, so I figured we’d try it.
Delish!!!
Pesto always makes everything taste better, and this is no exception. If I were to make this again, I would chop the potatoes smaller, as I prefer the carmelized outside to the plain cooked insides. Overall, a good dish. You can’t go too wrong with pesto, everybody would eat this.
VERY good! Potatoes weren’t as soft as I like, so I’ll pre-cook them in microwave next time.
it was ok. chicken didn’t brown or caramelize which I think would have enhanced the flavor. Rather bland.
Extremely easy. I’ll definitely make it again. Not spectacular but definitely a keeper.
Really enjoyed this recipe. Very flavourful chicken and the potatoes were lovely and crispy on the outside. Will definitely make this again!
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My family and I loved it, we couldn’t get enough, yummmmmmmmmy
All of our favorites, rolled into one amazing dish! This was incredibly tasty, & SO easy to prepare. Thanks 🙂
So easy and quick for a busy weeknight! I used fresh pesto – very tasty!