I love the natural flavours of this dish, the tomatoes, sundried tomatoes, celery, onions and red peppers combining into a rich vegetable sauce, healthy yet delicious. M was literally salivating to this dish, Mediterranean Chicken. She kept gushing about how the chicken skin tasted just like the chicken skin she loves at KFC, crispy and savoury. I think the secret is paprika as I sprinkled quite a bit of it on top of the chicken before I baked it in the oven. So to cook it, first saute onions and garlic in a pan for 4 minutes. Add in the red pepper and celery. You can include courgettes in the list of vegetables. Its in the recipes in my Chicken cookbook. Its not in my cooking as I hate it. Cook for 5 minutes and add in the tomatoes, sundried tomatoes and some balsamic vinegar. Place the vegetables in a oven proof dish. For the chicken, stuff some cream cheese into the space between the skin and the flesh. Put the chicken on top of the vegetables, drizzle some olive oil, sprinkle the key ingredient, paprika and bake in the oven for 45 minutes at 180 degrees.
Serve with pasta and you get a happy beaming M.
5 comments:
can gimme recipe?
nisha
i want this...-ET
Ok ok. Full recipe.
Ingredients:
4 chicken portions
cream cheese
1 onion finely diced
1 red pepper, thick strips
2 celery sticks, sliced
6 plum tomatoes, quartered
6 sundried tomatoes, chopped roughly
2 garlic cloves, finely diced
balsamic vinegar 2tbsp
1 tbsp of paprika
Stuff some cream cheese into the space between the chicken skin and the flesh. I used around 100g of the cheese.
Saute onions and garlic in olive oil at medium heat for around 4 minutes till they are golden
Add in the red pepper and celery. Cook for 5 minutes.
Add in the tomatoes, sundried tomatoes and the balsamic vinegar. Season with salt and mix well.
Transfer the vegetables to an ovenproof dish.
Place the chicken on top of the vegetables. Drizzle some olive oil over the chicken. Season with salt and the paprika.
Bake in the oven for 45 minutes at 180 degrees till the chicken is cooked.
It was very very nice! Thank you! :)
Nisha
Heh no prob. Anytime you want a recipe, just leave a comment on the blog.
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