Baked Pesto Chicken

"So good! Great flavor, easy and delicious! I marinated the chicken for about an hour in the pesto before baking so the flavor could really sink in! Will definitly be making this again!..." See more"

"Try buying thick breasts and lightly poking them all over with a fork to help the marinade really seep into the chicken. Cut a pocket into each breast and stuff it with motz cheese, closing it with a..." See more toothpick. Marinate the chicken for at least an hour, then bake according to the directions. After adding the tomato feel free to add a light sprinkling of cheese for presentation. The only way I can get the males in my family to eat chicken breast (deemed to be "boring" and "too healthy") is to stuff it with cheese. "

"The only thing hubby and I liked about this was that the chicken was cooked perfectly--tender and juicy. Ideally the various flavors in a dish should all marry well and blend together for a finished p..." See moreroduct that has its own taste and no one flavor is dominant. While I had high hopes and expectations for this, I was really off the mark on this one. The chicken, while tender and juicy, was just flavorless chicken coated with a pronounced flavor of (homemade) pesto which didn't permeate into the chicken at all. This, then, topped with raw tomato barely heated under the melted, near flavorless mozarella, made for a very disappointing meal."