Description
Easy chicken in tomato sauce recipe all cooked in one skillet. These chicken breasts are seared in a hot pan/skillet and into the oven to finish cooking and for the flavors to come together full circle.
Ingredients
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- 4 chicken breasts
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 fresh tomato (diced)
- 8 baby potatoes (washed, skin on (See notes below))
- 1/2 cup Bocconcini cheese (+ a drizzle of olive oil)
- fresh parsley (chopped)
Sauce Ingredients
- 1 cup tomato passata
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1 teaspoons 13 spice chicken and Garlic & Herb (1/2 tsp each)
- teaspoon salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Prep your chicken by seasoning with salt and pepper and heat the oven to 190° C
- Add the sauce ingredients into a measuring jug and mix. Set aside.
- Heat a skillet or any oven friendly pan and add the two tablespoons of oil, cook the chicken fillets till light golden brown in each side. Should take about 4 to 6 minutes on each side depending on how thick the fillets are.
- Add the diced tomato between the fillets and pour the sauce over the chicken breasts.
- Pour the wine/stock or water (which suits you) into the pan from the side so that you're not pouring over the chicken and tomato.
- Add the potatoes, a drizzle of olive oil over the food and bake in the middle rack for 20 minutes.
- Remove from the oven, add the bocconcini cheese and the chopped parsley bits and let it stand 10 minutes or before serving. Enjoy!
Notes
Pre-Cooking The Potatoes
To cut down on the oven time, I suggest cooking the potatoes halfway through. These potatoes were seasoned with salt & pepper and a tablespoon of olive oil and then air-fried till a nice golden brown. Set the air-fryer on 200 C and air-fry for about 10 minutes.
To par-boil - boil them in water for about 5 to 7 minutes, drain, coat them in olive oil and seasoning (chicken 13-spice) and toss them into a hot pan to sear, about 5 minutes.
I takes a bit longer this way but is worth the additional flavor.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Category: Dinner
- Cuisine: South African
Nutrition
- Calories: 380
- Sugar: 2
- Sodium: 54
- Fat: 34
- Saturated Fat: 5
- Carbohydrates: 11
- Fiber: 2
- Protein: 10
- Cholesterol: 23