Pesto Roast Chicken

· Waitrose easy cook chicken breast (one of these feeds between 2-4 people depending on their hunger).
· Pesto (makes enough to stuff 2 chickens).
- Small tub of semi sundried tomatoes
- 1 packet of grated parmesan cheese (180g)
- 1 large bunch of fresh basil
- 1 packet of pine nuts (200g) (you’ll need to toast them in the pan)
- About 2/3cup of olive oil – you’ll just need to keep adding it until you get a good sticky paste.

To Make the Pesto blend all these ingredients together with a Barmix or in a Magimix till a sticky paste has been created.


Stuff underneath the chicken skin with the pesto – and cook at roasting temp for around an hour and voila!!

The chicken tastes particularly good with Roast Potatoes:
For roast potatoes I use 1-2 bags of baby new potatoes and pre-cook them till they are soft inside, before adding them to the chicken roasting pan about 30-40mins before the end - they taste delicious roasted in the pesto juice!!

I would then serve the above with My Winter Salad as the combination of ingredients works well with the chicken.