Ranch Roasted Chicken with Creamy Pesto

Name: Ranch Roasted Chicken with Creamy Pesto
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 kilograms chickens, quartered; 1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice; 296 milliliters plain low-fat yogurt; 3 Tbsps mayonnaise; 237 milliliters chopped pecans; 8 servings Pepper; 118 milliliters prepared pesto; 28 grams package ranch dressing mix; 3 Tbsps sour cream

Ranch Roasted Chicken with Creamy Pesto is a gluten free main course. This recipe serves 8. One serving contains 1200 calories, 88g of protein, and 88g of fat. This recipe covers 35% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have ranch dressing mix, pesto, mayonnaise, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the low fat plain yogurt you could follow this main course with the Yogurt Molasses Cookies as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

Place a rack in center of oven. Preheat oven to 425F. Coat a shallow roasting pan with cooking spray.

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Cooking Spray

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Roasting Pan

Oven

Remove skin and excess fat from chicken; pat dry with a paper towel. Arrange in roasting pan.

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Whole Chicken

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Paper Towels

In a bowl, combine yogurt, dressing mix and pepper.

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Salad Dressing Mix

Pepper

Yogurt

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Bowl

Pour mixture over chicken; mix to coat. Refrigerate for 20 minutes. Before baking, sprinkle chicken with pecans. Roast for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350F and roast until a thermometer inserted into thickest part of meat but not touching bone reads 170F, 35 to 40 minutes more.

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Pecans