Thai Pesto Chicken w/ Coconut Lime Rice

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Chicken:
1 cup loosely packed fresh cilantro leaves
3 tblspn fresh lime juice
2 tblspn unsalted dry-roast peanuts
2 tblspn fresh ginger
2 garlic cloves
3/4 tspn salt
2 tspn honey
1/2 tspn dried crushed red pepper
3 tblspn olive oil

Process all the above ingredients in food processor until smooth, and toss with sauted chicken (great with shrimp too) until coated.

(I couldn't find unsalted peanuts, so I just cut the salt out of the recipe)

Rice:

Combine 1 cup light coconut milk with water and bring to boil. Add 1 1/2 cup uncooked jasmine rice, reduce heat and simmer 20-25 minutes until tender and liquid is absorbed. Stir in 1 1/2 tblspn fresh lime juice (and 1 tspn of lime zest if you REALLY want it to zing!)

Serve chicken over rice for tasty chicken dinner of awesomeness! (or without rice for slightly less awesomeness)

This recipe yields approximately 350 calories per serving.

Shannon023

This sounds great!!

yankeefamily05

mmm

FaeryBaby

that sounds delicious! how much water do you add to the coconut milk though?

dipsl19

woww this sounds AMAZING

dipsl19

woww this sounds AMAZING

DPruneda17

Yum, gonna have to try this!

hadl0032

DEF BUMP! YUMMY!! THX!

DPruneda17

My guess was however much additional liquid needed to cook the rice? According to the rice directions?

liz4214

That sounds awesome.

SarahofTwins

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Yummy!

dawnmichelea

Thanks for sharing.....can't wait to make it!

whatshesaid

mmm...bump for later!

ob1newz

Yummy, can't wait to try it:)

Diana35bha

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Got to try that one!

Thanks for sharing

Di

skinnymeinaz

sounds wonderful!!! Thanks

digitalsinner

that sounds delicious! how much water do you add to the coconut milk though?

Whatever the recipe of your rice calls for minus the coconut milk that you substituted!

anu_6986

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newashley

I can't wait to try this!!! Yummy!!

JeninBelgium

bump!

slb106

This sounds awesome...and I don't even like rice!

tashjs21

Bump for later this week.

Queen_JessieA

Oh, yumm, this sounds delish!

JNALTBK

Sounds awesome ... thanks.

Sugs94

Bump.....sounds great!!!

naj71

I just had this for my dinner. It was delicious. The flavours are still sitting in my mouth and I don't feel hungry. Five star - yum (and easy to prepare)

tanyaMax

Yum

digitalsinner

I just had this for my dinner. It was delicious. The flavours are still sitting in my mouth and I don't feel hungry. Five star - yum (and easy to prepare)

Yay! Glad you liked it. This is one of my favorite recipes!

jemko

Going to try this over the weekend, thanks!

NOLA_Meg

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mesafford

Want to try this but also want to log it correctly- how much chicken? And then how many servings total does this make? Was the 350 calories for both the chicken and the rice? Thanks!