A Quick Weeknight Pasta Dish!

Easy Chicken Pesto Pasta

Recipe Snapshot

Servings

8

Total Time

1 hour

Course

dinner

Ingredients

Preheat oven. Place tomatoes cut side up on a rimmed baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil and Kosher salt. Cook, rotating the pan once halfway through cook time, until blistered and juicy.

Roast the tomatoes

1

Meanwhile, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add spaghetti and cook according to package directions for al dente. Before draining reserve about pasta cooking liquid in a measuring cup. Drain pasta. Toss pasta with unsalted butter or olive oil to ensure it doesn't stick. 

Cook the pasta

2

Add cooked tomatoes, rotisserie chicken, pesto, mascarpone cheese, lemon zest, and reserved cooking water, then toss to combine. Mascarpone should be completely melted. 

Toss remaining ingredients

3

Add bocconcini or ripped mozzarella and fresh arugula, then toss once more. Sprinkled with flaky sea salt and lots of freshly cracked black pepper. Serve immediately.

Finish, then serve

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