{"id":27493,"date":"2015-09-01T00:30:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T04:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=27493"},"modified":"2015-08-31T21:18:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T01:18:40","slug":"pesto-chicken-broccoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/01\/pesto-chicken-broccoli\/","title":{"rendered":"Pesto Chicken Broccoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Look what someone who loves me gave me today&#8230;oh! happy me!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-07-17.34.47.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21197\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-07-17.34.47-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"2014-08-07 17.34.47\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-07-17.34.47-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-07-17.34.47-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-07-17.34.47-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My daughter, Kassia, lovingly gifted me with a jar of her healthy but-oh-so-yummy pesto (and luscious balsamic reduction)! \u00a0This is precious stuff\u2026what to make, what to make? \u00a0Eventually, I just decided to keep it simple: I took a couple of tablespoons to marinate one pound of chicken tenderloins, which we then grilled. Then cooked up some gluten free pasta, steamed a head of broccoli, and sauteed some mushrooms and onions. \u00a0And combined it all together with an additional few tablespoons of pesto. \u00a0So yummy!<\/p>\n<p>Kassia graciously is sharing her pesto recipe with us today\u2026. This recipe is vegan and dairy-free (along with being intrinsically gluten free, soy free). Her secret ingredient? \u00a0<strong>Nutritional yeast<\/strong>. \u00a0Yup! Don\u2019t knock it \u2018til you try it! (Oh, speaking of trying it\u2026dust your freshly popped popcorn with it!) Here\u2019s a fun<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fatfreevegan.com\/2011\/10\/what-the-heck-is-nutritional-yeast.html\" target=\"_blank\"> link <\/a>loaded with lots of good info about nutritional yeast, or <em>noosh<\/em>, and some ideas where to purchase it. \u00a0As is, this recipe is dairy-free and vegan. \u00a0We topped off the finished dish with some freshly grated Asaiago cheese. \u00a0Enjoy!<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Pesto<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-27-19.15.32.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-27494\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-27-19.15.32-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-27 19.15.32\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-27-19.15.32-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-27-19.15.32-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ingredients<\/strong>:<br \/>\n1\/4 cup pignoli (also called pine nuts)<a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-10-17.47.41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21199\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-10-17.47.41-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"2014-08-10 17.47.41\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-10-17.47.41-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-10-17.47.41-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n1 tablespoon finely minced garlic (she uses jarred garlic, like her momma!)<br \/>\n2 cups fresh baby spinach<br \/>\n1 cup fresh basil (leaves only)<br \/>\n1 tablespoon nutritional yeast flakes<br \/>\njuice of 1\/2 small lemon<br \/>\n1\/4 cup+\/- extra virgin olive oil<br \/>\nsea salt, freshly ground black pepper<br \/>\nfreshly grated parmesan or asiago cheese, optional<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>directions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>in a food processor, process the pignoli \u00a0and garlic until minced<\/li>\n<li>add the spinach, basil, nutritional yeast and lemon juice; process by pulsing until spinach is finely ground<\/li>\n<li>with food processor running, s-l-o-w-l-y pour the oil down the food chute \u2018til all is well incorporated<\/li>\n<li>season with salt and pepper, to taste<\/li>\n<li>this will make approximately 3\/4 cup (about 12 tablespoons) of pesto. I only used 5 tablespoons in the entire dish pictured above which made 4 generous servings!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u2665 \u00a0\u00a0\u2665\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2665\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2665\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2665<\/span><\/p>\n<p>God loves you!\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u2665\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>(Please don\u2019t\u00a0<strong>ever<\/strong>\u00a0forget that!)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u2665\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0coleen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look what someone who loves me gave me today&#8230;oh! happy me! My daughter, Kassia, lovingly gifted me with a jar of her healthy but-oh-so-yummy pesto (and luscious balsamic reduction)! \u00a0This is precious stuff\u2026what to make, what to make? \u00a0Eventually, I just decided to keep it simple: I took a couple of tablespoons to marinate one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":27494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[235,4258,1287,425,1897,483,7016,7017,757],"class_list":["post-27493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-home-with-gch","tag-coleen-hayden","tag-dairy-free","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-gluten-free","tag-healthy-but-oh-so-yummy","tag-kassia","tag-nutritional-yeast","tag-pesto","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-27-19.15.32.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-79r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27497,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27493\/revisions\/27497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}