What’s better than a five ingredient recipe? A four ingredient recipe. This chicken bake is so simple, just mix the pesto and cream cheese and top the chicken breasts! This is definitely on our list to serve if we ever have guests over.

Since the chicken is packed with flavor from the pesto and cheeses, you can go simple with the side. We baked a few freezer rolls to eat alongside the chicken which was perfect to sop up the leftover pesto cream cheese.

Tips for this recipe:

• This recipe is super easy if you buy store bought pesto sauce. The original recipe calls to use Giovanni Rana, which we did for this dinner. It turned out delicious so we’d definitely recommend it if you don’t have the time to make your own pesto.
• We ended up not having enough mozzarella for the recipe, so we used a mixture of mozzarella and Monterey jack cheese. You can use this combination if you find yourself in a pinch like we did!

Recipe:

Cheesy Pesto Chicken Bake

For the original recipe click here.

Ingredients:

3 chicken breasts

8 ounces cream cheese

1/3 cup store bough basil pesto (Giovanni Rana)

1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

Instructions:

1. Preheat your oven to 375 F and grease a large baking dish.
2. Combine softened cream cheese and basil pesto in a small bowl.
3. Place chicken breasts into greased dish and cover with cream cheese pesto.
4. Top each breast with 1 cup of mozzarella cheese.
5. Bake uncovered until the internal temperature reaches 165 F (30 – 40 minutes).
6. Serve and enjoy!

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