{"id":56366,"date":"2018-03-03T15:05:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T15:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/?p=56366"},"modified":"2018-04-03T06:54:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T06:54:38","slug":"easy-easter-chicken-pesto-tray-bake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/easy-easter-chicken-pesto-tray-bake\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Easter Entertaining: Leopards Leap Chicken Pesto Tray Bake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although Easter is about much more than a long weekend and get-togethers with family and friends, food does make out a very important part of this special time. To inspire you, Chef Pieter de Jager and his team at <a href=\"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/from-garden-to-kitchen-to-table-at-leopards-leap\/\">Leopard&#8217;s Leap<\/a> have identified one meal that is usually left to chance: Thursday supper before the long weekend begins. Perhaps your house is filling up with visitors, or you&#8217;ve just arrived at your weekend destination and there is no fancy ingredients or time for elaborate recipes.\u00a0Introducing the\u00a0Chicken Pesto Tray Bake. So tasty! So easy!<\/p>\n<p>This is a one dish wonder that is packed with tasty goodness. We love our easy it is to make and to clean up afterwards!\u00a0Make sure you have a bottle or two of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leopardsleap.co.za\/product\/2017-classic-chenin-blanc\/\">2017 Leopard\u2019s Leap Chenin Blanc<\/a> in the fridge.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-56369 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Leopards-Leap-1-x-56.jpg\" alt=\"chicken pesto tray bake\" width=\"1000\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Leopards-Leap-1-x-56.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Leopards-Leap-1-x-56-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Leopards-Leap-1-x-56-940x526.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Recipe for\u00a0Chicken Pesto Tray Bake<\/h4>\n<p>Heat the oven to 220 \u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>Now arrange the following ingredients in the tray: 600 g sweet potatoes (sliced), 4 garlic cloves (peeled), 8 free-range chicken thighs.<\/p>\n<p>Drizzle with 2 Tablespoons olive oil and season with salt and pepper.<\/p>\n<p>Roast for 40 \u2013 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>After 20 minutes in the oven, add the 2 baby marrows (sliced) to the roasting tray.<\/p>\n<p>For the final 10 minutes of cooking, add the 200 g cherry vine tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>When the chicken is golden and cooked through, dollop over 150 g basil pesto and serve with sourdough bread and the Leopard\u2019s Leap Chenin Blanc.<\/p>\n<p>(If you are culinary-inspired, do try and make your own pesto. You can do it beforehand and you can use it in a number of ways during the Easter weekend! Click here for our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leopardsleap.co.za\/2018\/03\/07\/easy-peasy-pesto\/\">recipe and tips<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"rir-row\"><div class=\"rir-cols-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Leopards-Leap-4-x-6-2.jpg\" alt=\"chicken pesto tray bake\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/div><div class=\"rir-cols-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Leopards-Leap-Easter-Eats-4-x-6.jpg\" alt=\"chicken pesto tray bake\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n<p>So you&#8217;ve got Thursday night covered, check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/easter-recipe-round-up\/\">round-up of Easter recipes<\/a> to make your weekend entertaining positively mouthwatering!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leopardsleap.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leopardsleap.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Easter is about much more than a long weekend and get-togethers with family and friends, food does make out a very important part of this special time. To inspire you, Chef Pieter de Jager and his team at Leopard&#8217;s Leap have identified one meal that is usually left to chance: Thursday supper before the long weekend begins. Perhaps your house is filling up with visitors, or you&#8217;ve just arrived at your weekend destination and there is no fancy ingredients [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"brand_slug":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}