Chicken & Vegetable Penne with Parsley-Walnut Pesto

Unless you really love parsley, I'm not sure why you would make this over a more traditional basil and pine nut pesto. The pesto was fine but not amazing, and the rest of the recipe is just boiled vegetables and "cooked" chicken (I went for sauteed... can't even imagine how bland this would be if you also boiled your chicken). I see others have recommended adding lemon juice/zest or additional seasoning, and maybe that would help, but with so many better options out there, I don't plan on revisiting this one to try out tweaks.

-Lemon pepper seasoned chicken -Lemon juice to pesto

Always delicious

Roast the chicken, cauliflower, and green beans, add chicken broth to the pasta water. Finish off with lemon juice and zest.

It was great! Super easy. Used fresh parsley from my garden :)

I sautéed the chicken first in EVOO and Montreal chicken seasoning and cooked the veggies in the pan drippings with a little water. I noticed I have to tweak a lot of these recipes, otherwise they will be bland