Baked Pesto Chicken

By MelissaPage

Ingredients

• 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• salt and fresh ground black pepper
• 1/2 cup basil pesto
• 2 oz (1/2 cup) grated mozzarella cheese

Details

Servings 4
Adapted from kalynsprintablerecipes.blogspot.com

Preparation

Step 1

(Makes 4 servings, recipe adapted slightly from The South Beach Diet Quick and Easy Cookbook.)

Preheat oven to 375F/190C. Trim all visible fat and tendons from chicken pieces, then cut each chicken breast lengthwise into 2 or 3 pieces. (I cut the larger ones into 3 strips and the smaller ones into 2 strips.)

When chicken is barely cooked through, remove foil and sprinkle chicken with 1/2 cup grated mozzarella cheese. Put dish back into the oven without foil and cook 5 minutes more, just until cheese is melted. (If your broiler is separate from the oven, start preheating it when you take the chicken out.) After I melted the cheese for 5 minutes I switched my oven to broil and broiled for 5 minutes more, just long enough to get the cheese lightly browned.