Lemon-Garlic Chicken Penne with Pesto and Spinach

I'm lazy so used jarred basil pesto and sundried tomatoes. Also used boneless chicken breasts and just cooked them on the stove. My picky eaters ate it (minus the tomatoes) Will definitely make again

We loved all of the flavors in this recipe. We ended up using store bought pesto because the recipe was already longer than we would’ve liked for a weeknight meal time wise with marinading and baking the chicken. Overall it was delicious and we will make it again!

It was more than I wanted to get into because I'm lazy like that. I used jarred pesto. It was good and kid approved.

The homemade pesto didn't take long at all and made a big difference in taste - very fresh. I used sundried tomatoes in oil and that worked just fine (and saved time). I simply dried them with paper towels before mixing them in.

This was a bit time consuming, but delicious. I tweaked it a bit. I used 1.5 pounds of boneless chicken breast that I marinated and cooked according to the recipe. I used 8 ounces of dry, whole wheat penne. And instead of making basil pesto from scratch, I just used somewhere between 1/3 to 1/2 cup of store bought basil pesto. Also, I couldn’t find dry, sundried tomatoes, so I did use sundried tomatoes in olive oil in a jar. Worked totally fine. Was so good! The lemon flavor to the chicken was super yummy! Definitely will make again.