Recipe: Perfect Pesto Roasted Chicken

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Pesto Roasted Chicken.

Pesto Roasted Chicken You can have Pesto Roasted Chicken using 3 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Pesto Roasted Chicken

  1. Prepare of pesto.
  2. You need 1 of purple pesto recipe below. You may use regular basil in the recipe..
  3. Prepare 1 of whole chicken, average weight, 5 pounds.

Pesto Roasted Chicken step by step

  1. Wash with cool water your chicken inside and out. Pat dry with paper towels..
  2. Rub pesto all over the chicken, inside and out. You will need about 3/4 cup of pesto. https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/357141-pesto-sauce.
  3. Roast chicken in a preheated 425°F fahrenheit oven for 30 minutes. Lower oven to 350°F. Roast chicken for 20 minutes per pound. Chicken should reach 165°F. Let rest 20 minutes outside of oven..
  4. Carve and serve..
  5. Recipe by taylor68too..