Chicken Baked with Shallots, Olives and Thyme
Serves 4.
(Prep time 10 minutes. Cooking time 30 minutes)
4 skinless chicken breast fillets
12 shallots, peeled
4 garlic cloves, peeled
16 good-quality pitted green olives
2 sprigs fresh thyme
2tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 tbsp sherry vinegar
Pre-heat the oven to 190 degrees C/Gas 5.
Arrange the chicken breasts in a shallow roasting tin or baking dish. Tuck the shallots, garlic cloves and olives in around the chicken and place the thyme sprigs on top
Drizzle over the oil and season with salt and pepper
Bake for 20 minutes, then remove from the oven and drizzle over the sherry vinegar
Cook for a further 10 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through
Serve with veg. or a green salad
As is often the case, I just use two chicken breasts for the two of us with the full amount of other ingredients - and then multiply up when there are more of us.
I did once buy Queen Olives - ha, ha, I thought the can said Green 'cos I wasn't wearing my specs. Hey, ho - Queen Olives are stuffed with Jalapeno chillies and I only discovered this when actually preparing the dish. My OH loves chillies so once he spotted them there was no way I could change direction :) The chillies mellowed down during the cooking process and didn't spoil the dish so that's an option I guess - I still prefer normal olives though.
The beauty of recipe is that it truly is 'sling it all in' cooking (hear that Sandra?) - no need to brown the chicken or anything. It looks a bit insipid in the photos but, trust me, it's always so moist and tender....despite needing a bit of sunshine to get a suntan!
Enjoy!
Di
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I hear ya Di, I hear ya! Looks good to me and despite owning 2 chooks, rest assured I still LOVE eating chicken.
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A fling it all in and wang it in the oven type of dish is right up my street!!! THANKS!
Hugs, Sarn xxxx
Another lovely recipe Di....not an olive lover but I'm sure I could adapt it :-)
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Hugs,
A x
Hi Annie - I reckon the olives could easily be left out and perhaps replaced with baby tomatoes or perhaps button mushrooms. In fact, the photo I have on the magazine clipping seems as if it has tomato of some sort - but they didn't mention that! Have just replied to your email - instead of 'dashing away with the smoothing iron' as in the old song you must be 'dashing away with the sewing machine'! Hugs, Di xx
ReplyDeleteOh thanks Di for the recipe I must try this. Have a lovely day!
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Wow Di I just made this recipe on Wed. My son and GS were over for dinner so there were four breasts. My recipe calls for button mushrooms instead of olives. I give my chicken a little tan by popping them under the broiler for a minuet before serving.
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Bernie
like this one, but would perhaps use the toms instead of olives definitely worth a try
ReplyDeleteWow this is making me feel hungrey!! looks gorgeous love the recipy l'll be giving this a go at my next party it looks mouth watering yum yum :) Sandra H
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