Cashew-pesto chicken with cannellini mash

Name: Cashew-pesto chicken with cannellini mash
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 medium courgette; 1 tsp. extra virgin olive oil, plus extra to drizzle; 4 chicken breasts, skinless; rocket, to serve; 75 g (3oz) unsalted cashews; 25 g (1oz) pack fresh basil; 25 g (1oz) Parmesan, grated; 2 garlic cloves, crushed; finely grated zest and juice 1/2 lemon; 50 mL (2 fl oz) extra virgin olive oil; 3 x 400g cannellini beans, drained and rinsed

Mashed tinned pulses make an easy and nutritious accompaniment to all sorts of dishes. Here we've served it with delicious pesto chicken.

By The GH Kitchen TeamPublished: 23 February 2016

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Cooking Notes: about 25min

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Yields:

Prep Time:

30 mins

Total Time:

30 mins

Ingredients

1 medium courgette
1 tsp. extra virgin olive oil, plus extra to drizzle
4 chicken breasts, skinless
rocket, to serve

For the pesto

75 g (3oz) unsalted cashews
25 g (1oz) pack fresh basil
25 g (1oz) Parmesan, grated
2 garlic cloves, crushed
finely grated zest and juice 1/2 lemon
50 ml (2 fl oz) extra virgin olive oil

For the bean mash

3 x 400g cannellini beans, drained and rinsed

Directions

1. Step 1
  Preheat oven to 200°C (180°C fan) mark 6. Start by making the pesto. In the small bowl of a food processor, pulse cashews until roughly chopped. Add basil (stalk and all), Parmesan, garlic, lemon zest and juice, oil and some seasoning. Whiz to a paste. Spoon just under half the pesto into a small bowl and set aside for the mash.
2. Step 2
  Trim ends off courgette and, using a Y-shape vegetable peeler, peel along length of courgette to make ribbons. Put ribbons in a bowl and mix in oil.
3. Step 3
  Cut a slit into the side of each chicken breast and using your finger, make a pocket inside each breast. Stuff remaining pesto into chicken breasts, then wrap courgette ribbons around breasts as best you can.
4. Step 4
  Arrange chicken in a small roasting tin and cook in oven for 25min until cooked through.
5. Step 5
  A few minutes before chicken is due to be ready, heat mash ingredients in a pan, mashing the beans slightly. Check seasoning, then marble through reserved pesto. Serve with the chicken, drizzled with a little oil, and a helping of rocket.
  
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Per Serving:

Calories: 546
Fibre: 13 g
Total carbs: 28 g
Sugars: 3 g
Total fat: 23 g
Saturated fat: 4 g
Protein: 51 g

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