Tomato Basil Chicken
Recipe: #20161
July 16, 2015
Categories: Chicken, Tomato, Italian, Romantic Dinner, Sunday Dinner, Gluten-Free, No Eggs, Fresh Tomatoes, Herbs, more
"This Tomato Basil Chicken will have you grabbing your fork at the 30 minute mark, which is great news when you need to have a nice, hot meal on the table quickly. I made this with pasta on the side. I doubled the sauce so I had plenty to go over the pasta! Absolutely delish!! I got this from Menumusingsrecipes."
Original is 4 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (156.5 g)
- Calories 271.2
- Total Fat - 20.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 8.8 g
- Cholesterol - 78.7 mg
- Sodium - 147.6 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 3.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1 g
- Sugars - 2 g
- Protein - 18.5 g
- Calcium - 27.3 mg
- Iron - 1 mg
- Vitamin C - 11.2 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Season chicken breasts with kosher salt and fresh cracked black pepper.
Step 2
Add a couple of tablespoons of Extra Virgin Olive Oil to the skillet. This may seem like quite a bit, but it will form the base for the sauce.
Step 3
While waiting for the oil to heat up, get the water going for the pasta.
Step 4
When the oil is HOT, add the chicken breasts.
Step 5
After about 4-5 minutes, the chicken breasts should be ready to turn. You'll want to cook them on the second side another 4-5 minutes, or until the juices run clear when you pierce them with a small sharp knife. (If you pounded yours out thinner, they will cook faster than this).
Step 6
After the second side has been cooking for about 4 minutes, add in the fresh tomatoes that you have chopped up.
Step 7
Add the fresh basil that you have chopped into ribbons, the cold butter, minced garlic, and some kosher salt and black pepper, to season the sauce.
Step 8
Give it a good stir so all those flavors will marry together.
Step 9
When your chicken is "done," turn the sauce down on the lowest setting, to keep it warm until the pasta is cooked, which should be any minute now.
Step 10
At this point, if still waiting for the pasta, you can remove the cooked chicken to a cutting board, and after resting just a couple of minutes, cut the chicken into slices on the bias.
Step 11
Divide the pasta among individual bowls, and top each with half of a chicken breast, sliced into pieces, and equal portions of the tomato basil sauce.
Step 12
Top with more fresh basil, and freshly grated Parmigiana Reggiano cheese.
Tips
No special items needed.
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