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Pesto Chicken Bake

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Pesto Chicken Bake

For my homemade (EASY!) pesto sauce recipe, click here. This is such a quick dinner! Another mom win.  Ingredients: 3 boneless skinless chicken breasts2 tbsp-ish of olive oil (enough to coat pan for chicken)Salt (eyeball)Pepper (eyeball)Italian seasoning (eyeball)Pesto sauce3 roma tomatoes2 1/4 c mozzarella2 tbsp fresh basil chopped (reserved on side for garnish) Heat medium frying pan with olive oil and season both sides of chicken. Cook each side for 5-7 min (so there's no pink). Remove from heat and chop into bite size pieces.  Add chicken to a casserole dish, add in diced tomatoes and 1/4 c of mozzarella...

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Curly Q's IP Chicken

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Curly Q's IP Chicken

My Instant Pot Chicken Recipe *This post may contain affiliate links. Please do not use photos without permission. Link to my teal Instant Pot - currently on sale $20 off!Link to the skin on my Instant Pot So I've chatted about this dozens of times on stories, my favorite #dinnerhack is my instant pot chicken. I take frozen boneless skinless chicken (yes, you can really throw frozen chicken into your IP!) and pressure cook it for closer to an hour, and boom! Plenty of chicken to disperse throughout your weekday meals (or lunches!)  I love that it's pretty effortless too....

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