Sunday 8 January 2012

Recipe for Super-Simple Chicken, Cacciatore-Style

This chicken is simple, fast, tender, versatile, healthful, and delicious!

Ingredients
  • 4 Chicken Breasts, skinned and boned
  • Tin diced tomatoes, preferrably 'No Salt Added' (it's not needed so why add it?!)
  • A coarsely chopped onion
  • Handful of fresh basil leaves, torn and split into two halves

Method
  • Preheat oven to 350
  • Reserve one half of basil for garnishing finished dish
  • Mix all ingredients in an oven-proof dish, cover, cook for 30 minutes or until chicken is thoroughly cooked
  • Use slotted spoon to serve chicken and other vegetables

Serving Suggestions
Serve over rice, pasta, steamed spinach, or perhaps winter squash. A lovely accompaniment to new potatoes.

The remaining tomato juice could be thickened into a sauce in its own right. However, using just the vegetables has usually suited us as it is such a wonderful way to keep the chicken tender. I have on occasion served just the chicken and used the juice and tomatoes as the tomato+stock base for a sauce for another meal.

Alternatives / Things to Try
Could try spinach, mushrooms, or peppers too.

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