Crockpot Garlic Pesto Chicken

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    Crockpot Garlic Pesto Chicken is a wonderful restaurant quality meal that you can easily prepare at home using your slow cooker!


    I love pesto pasta chicken and have never made a dish like this in the crockpot.  So glad I tried this!  Super easy and so delicious.  I made the chicken in the crockpot during the day and then made the sauce while the pasta was cooking just before dinner!
    We included this meal in our 40 Meals in 4 hours. It's a fantastic freezer meal - and you know we LOVE our Freezer meals at Who Needs a Cape? Dinner made easy is my kind of dinner. Dinner with yummy chicken and pesto? Easy? Yup we LOVE LOVE LOVE Crockpot Garlic Pesto Chicken. It's definitely on our rotation whether we have it frozen or whether we put it together fresh - either way it's a must have!
    I think I've talked about it before, but my husband's favorite dinner is chicken. Any kind of chicken makes him happy, but I can't eat the same chicken dinner every single day! (ps my husband totally could). So I like having recipes like Crockpot Garlic Pesto Chicken because it's not your typical chicken dinner - it let's me change up the weekly menu a bit! I need that! I need change in the rotation 🙂
    Do you want some more ideas of how to change up the chicken dinner in your house? I have them ready for you!
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    Crockpot Garlic Pesto Chicken with Pasta in a Tomato Cream Sauce
    Adapted from: [Garlic Pesto Chicken with Tomato Cream Penne|http://cdargis.tumblr.com/post/18818836004/garlic-pesto-chicken-with-tomato-cream-penne]
    Ingredients

    For the Chicken


    For the Sauce

    • 8 ounces of of pasta
    • 2 tablespoons of olive oil
    • 2-3 cloves of chopped garlic
    • 3 T of pesto
    • 1/2 c of chicken broth
    • 8 ounces of tomato sauce
    • 1 c of half and half cream
    • 2 T flour
    • salt and pepper to taste


    Instructions

    For the Chicken

    • Cut chicken into 2" pieces
    • Pour Lawry's marinade, olive oil and pesto on the chicken pieces
    • Marinate over night if you have time
    • Toss it in the crockpot on low for 6-8 hours


    For the Sauce

    • Get the pasta cooking
    • Heat the olive oil and the garlic and saute lightly
    • Add the pesto and chicken broth until it has cooked down
    • Add tomato sauce and then the half and half
    • Simmer for 5 minutes.
    • Add the pasta in
    • Add flour one T at a time if the sauce is too thin for you liking
    • Serve with chicken on top of the pasta







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