One Pan Pesto Chicken and Asparagus Recipe (Healthy chicken and Veggies)

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grated pecorino

Nutritional yeast adds a cheesy flavor with fewer calories.

pine nuts

🥗Healthier: sunflower seeds

💰Cheaper: walnuts

Sunflower seeds are lower in fat and cost less.

Cut the chicken breast into pieces.

Heat olive oil in a pan.

Add the cut chicken to the pan and season with salt and black pepper to taste.

Cook the chicken for about 2 minutes.

Add sundried tomatoes to the chicken and cook for roughly 5 minutes to infuse flavor.

Add basil pesto to the chicken and mix everything together, letting it cook for an extra 5 minutes.

Remove the chicken from the pan.

Sauté onions in the same pan without adding more oil until they develop a little color.

Add asparagus to the pan and season with salt and black pepper to taste, tossing everything together.

Add more sundried tomatoes to the asparagus and cook until the asparagus is crunchy.

Return the chicken to the pan and toss everything together, adding cherry tomatoes if desired.

If you prefer cooked cherry tomatoes, cook for an extra 5 minutes.

Serve the dish over brown rice or in a whole grain wrap, sprinkling cheese on top and toasting in the oven.

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