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Jamie Oliver’s Flaky Pastry Pesto Chicken

Jamie Oliver's 5 ingredient pesto chicken wrapped in flaky pastry, as seen on his Channel 4 series, Quick & Easy Food, is a brilliant midweek meal that'll be ready in just 30 minutes.

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Ingredients

320g sheet of all-butter puff pastry (cold)
4 x 120g skinless chicken breasts
4 heaped tsp green pesto
400g ripe cherry tomatoes, on the vine
400g green beans

Method

Preheat the oven to 220C/425F/gas 7. Unroll the pastry, cut it in half lengthways, then cut each half widthways into 8 equal strips. Flatten the chicken breasts by pounding with your fist until the fat ends as the same thickness as the skinny ends. Place them in a roasting tray, season with sea salt and black pepper, spread over the pesto, then lay 4 overlapping strips of pastry over each breast, tucking them under at the edges. Brush with a little olive oil. Lightly dress the tomato vines in olive oil, season and put into a second tray. Place the chicken tray on the top shelf of the oven with the tomatoes below, and cook for 20 minutes, or until the pastry is golden and the chicken is cooked through.

Meanwhile, line up the beans, trim off just the stalk ends, then cook in a pan of boiling salted water for 7 minutes, or until tender. Remove the chicken to a board with half the tomatoes, squashing the rest in a tray and discarding the vines. Drain and toss the beans, taste and season to perfection. Slice the chicken at an angle and serve on top of the beans, with the whole tomatoes.

CALORIES 618kcal FAT 34.8g SAT FAT 18g PROTEIN 36.3g CARBS 40.4g SUGAR 7.1g SALT 1.7g FIBRE 4.9g

5 Ingredients by Jamie Oliver is published by Penguin Random House ⓒ Jamie Oliver Enterprises Limited. Photographer: David Loftus.

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    default user avatar 22sra

    Love this in our house. Sometimes struggle to have enough pastry to cover the chicken breasts if they are large portions.

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