Leftover Pesto

Pesto potato salad is one of my favorite things to eat, ever. You can just boil the potatoes. Really delicious!

pp.s. it COULD go into the chickenstock sauce
of the smothered chicken ( add some lemon juice) but i think it would be better next to the chicken-on starch or vegetables.

Just fyi, pesto freezes well if it has a layerof oil over it. Toss it with and cooked vegetables or any starch. Have you ever tried making a 'risotto' using Asian short grain sticky rice? It does work! and you could fold pesto into it at the end of cooking. (Shrimp or chicken would be good in that pesto risotto too.) You can also add it to a cream sauce or a wine sauce or to a salad dressing with oil and vinegar. You can also use it as a meat,poultry or seafood marinade. You could also mix it with shrimp or chicken for a filling for Asian dumplings!

Also, just fyi, pesto is so versatile! it can be made with other herbs, like cilantro, and with other nuts (walnuts, pine nuts, pistachios etc.)

Agree with David and Kristen (pesto as a condiment) but with a slight variation..goes with a lot, but not with everything. So, for ex, make a soup of your vegetables, or vegetables abd bacon, then add a spoonful of pesto to each serving as a garnish, as people do wiith minestrone. Omit, as you may note, the Colby & cheddar, so they din't fight with the parm/pecorino in the pesto. Save them for another meal. Same with crag Claiborne smothered chichen...let that recipe sing as it was meant to be sung. For 1-burner logistics, make the chicken, take off heat, make the soup. When soup is done, put the chicken back on low heat to keep warn, serve the soup, then the chicken. Other quick/good uses for leftover pesto: on toast or bruschetta, in omelet, as a dipping sauce for hot or cold vegetables, to top a nice fillet of simple white fish, like cod .

Oops, guess great minds think alike!

You could boil the potatoes, cut them to whatever size you like, and then toss them in the leftover pesto as a side to the chicken. The only difficulty would be having it all hot at the same time if you only have one burner. Personally I wouldn't add the pesto to the smothered chicken.

You don't need a recipe. Just think of pesto as a condiment that goes with a lot of things. For example, sauté some of the vegetables from your list in the order you think they would reach doneness; just prior to serving, stir in a good dollop of the pesto. Or, for the potatoes alone, boil them in chunks, then toss with some pesto when they are done. I suspect just putting a dollop on individual servings of the chicken would be quite tasty, too.

Oh, and I don't have an oven. Only a single burner.