Tomato-Braised Chicken Breasts with Green Olives

Name: Tomato-Braised Chicken Breasts with Green Olives
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 355 milliliters couscous (about 1 box); 118 milliliters dry white wine; 12 mediums garlic cloves, thickly sliced; 12 smalls green olives, pitted and halved; 1 large jalapeño, seeded and thinly sliced; 6 servings Kosher salt; 6 servings Lemon wedges, for serving; 59 milliliters extra-virgin olive oil; 6 servings Freshly ground pepper; 1 kilograms skinless, boneless chicken breast halves (about; 6 thyme sprigs, plus more for garnish; 473 milliliters water; 1 kilograms red and yellow tomatoes (about , cored and halved crosswise

Tomato-Braised Chicken Breasts with Green Olives is a dairy free main course. One portion of this dish contains about 46g of protein, 16g of fat, and a total of 518 calories. This recipe serves 6. This recipe covers 30% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of chicken breast halves, jalapeño, olive oil, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so yummy. To use up the kosher salt you could follow this main course with the Low Fat Crumbs Cake (Kosher-Dairy) as a dessert. 1 person found this recipe to be flavorful and satisfying.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 40

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Oven

Set a fine sieve over a bowl and, using your fingers, remove the seeds from the tomatoes, working over the sieve. Gently press the seeds against the sieve to extract as much juice as possible. Set aside the tomatoes and juice and discard the seeds.

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Tomato

Extract

Juice

Seeds

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Sieve

Bowl

Coat the bottom of a 9-by-13-inch glass or ceramic baking dish with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil. Scatter the garlic, olives and jalapeo over the bottom. Season the cut sides of the tomatoes with salt and arrange them in the baking dish, cut sides down.

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Olive Oil

Tomato

Garlic

Olives

Salt

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Baking Pan

Pour the white wine over the tomatoes along with the reserved tomato juice and arrange the chicken breast halves on top.

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Chicken Breast Halves

Tomato Juice

White Wine

Tomato

Drizzle the chicken with 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Top each breast half with a thyme sprig and season with salt and pepper.

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Salt And Pepper

Olive Oil

Whole Chicken

Thyme

Cover the baking dish with foil and bake the chicken for about 50 minutes, or until it is cooked through and the tomatoes have released most of their juices.

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Tomato

Whole Chicken

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Baking Pan

Oven

Aluminum Foil

Transfer the chicken to a large plate, cover and keep warm.

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Whole Chicken

Let the tomatoes cool for about 2 minutes and carefully pull off their skins with your fingers.

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Tomato

Add the tomatoes to the chicken and cover loosely to keep warm. Discard the thyme sprigs.

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Fresh Thyme

Tomato

Whole Chicken

In a medium saucepan, bring the water to a boil with 1/4 teaspoon salt and the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil.

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Olive Oil

Water

Salt

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Add the couscous, cover and remove from the heat.

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Couscous

Let stand until the water is completely absorbed, about 5 minutes. Fluff the couscous with a fork and spoon it into shallow soup bowls. Top the couscous with the braised chicken and tomatoes, spooning the juices all over.

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Couscous

Tomato

Whole Chicken

Water

Soup

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Garnish with thyme sprigs and serve with lemon wedges.

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Lemon Wedge