Recipe: Appetizing Zucchini Noodles with Pesto Chicken and Garlic Alfredo sauce

Zucchini Noodles with Pesto Chicken and Garlic Alfredo sauce. Bring sauce to a simmer over medium-high heat until thickened and smooth. Remove from heat and season with salt and pepper to taste. Add zucchini to skillet and gently toss noodles until coated in sauce.

Creamy Garlic Chicken and Zoodles (Zucchini noodles) Grilled chicken and rich almond-milk Alfredo over a bed of zucchini noodles. If using with chicken and zucchini: To make the zucchini noodles use a potato peeler and make wide noodles from the zucchini. Plate the noodles and then the cooked chicken breast and top with Alfredo sauce. You can cook Zucchini Noodles with Pesto Chicken and Garlic Alfredo sauce using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Zucchini Noodles with Pesto Chicken and Garlic Alfredo sauce

1. It's 2 of stems of kale (use just the leaves).
2. Prepare 2 leaves of fresh cilantro.
3. You need 1/8 cup of sunflower seeds.
4. Prepare 1/2 Tbs of minced garlic.
5. You need 1 Tbs of Salt.
6. It's 1 Tbs of Black Pepper.
7. It's 2 of Zucchini (spiralized).
8. You need 1 cup of grated parmesan cheese.
9. It's 1 Tbs of extra virgin olive oil.
10. Prepare 6 of chicken strips or 3 pc boneless breast.
11. Prepare 1/2 jar of garlic alfredo sauce.

Do not overcook the zucchini noodles or they'll become mush. Add chicken back into the pan with the zucchini noodles and sauce. Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. In the meantime, prepare the sauce by combining flour, garlic, basil pesto, milk, crumbled bouillon cube, salt, and pepper in a bowl.

Zucchini Noodles with Pesto Chicken and Garlic Alfredo sauce instructions

1. Making the Pesto: •Add the leaves of kale, chopped if desired, into the blender or food processor. Add cilantro, 1/3 cup of parmesan cheese, pinch of salt, pinch of pepper, and 1/4 Tbs of minced garlic. Blend on low, it should still be coarse. •Add 1/8 cup Sunflower seeds, continue to blend. • Add 2/3 Tbs extra virgin olive oil periodically as it blends completely.(The last 1/3 Tbs is for the pan.).
2. Chop chicken into cubes. • Add 1/3 Tbs of olive oil to the pan on medium heat. •Add the rest of your minced garlic to pan and simmer for 1 minute. •Add pesto, chicken and cook through. •Add salt and pepper to taste. • After the pesto chicken is cooked, set aside..
3. Peal the 2 Zucchini or dont, and spiralize it. • 1/4 Tbs of minced garlic to medium heated pan and simmer for a few minutes. • Add Zucchini noodles and cooked chicken to medium heated pan with garlic and cook for 3 minutes. • Add 1/2 jar of garlic alfredo sauce to Zucchini noodles and simmer for 3 minutes. • Add 1/3 cup of parmesan cheese. Toss noodles and chicken. • Salt and pepper to taste • Total cook time for noodles in sauce should be 5-7 minutes total..
4. Finish dish with the rest of parmesan cheese. Plate and enjoy!.

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