Feta chicken with grape tomato sauce

Recipes / Meat

Add a stylish twist to tonights chicken breasts with this simple recipe idea.

Recipe «Feta chicken with grape tomato sauce» presented in category Recipes / Meat, to prepare this dish you will need no more 20 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author Gomer would need: 4 large chicken thigh fillets, trimmed, 100g feta, 4 large basil leaves, 4 slices prosciutto, 25g butter , 1 tbsp olive oil, 1 garlic clove, sliced, 250g grape tomatoes, halved , 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar, Salt & freshly ground black pepper, Mashed potato and rocket salad, to serve.

Ingredients:

  • 4 large chicken thigh fillets, trimmed 
  • 100g feta 
  • 4 large basil leaves 
  • 4 slices prosciutto 
  • 25g butter 
  • 1 tbsp olive oil 
  • 1 garlic clove, sliced 
  • 250g grape tomatoes, halved 
  • 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar 
  • Salt & freshly ground black pepper 
  • Mashed potato and rocket salad, to serve 

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 220°C. Open fillets out flat and season with salt and pepper. Cut feta into 4 thick sticks, and place one stick in the middle of each fillet along with a basil leaf. Roll fillet up, wrap a slice of prosciutto around each and secure with toothpicks.
  2. Heat butter and oil together in a frying pan, and fry the chicken parcels for 5 minutes until evenly browned. Transfer to a roasting pan and bake for 15 minutes.
  3. Meanwhile, add garlic to the frying pan and fry gently for 1 minute. Add tomatoes and vinegar, then cover and cook gently for 5 minutes until softened. Keep warm.
  4. Stir chicken juices from pan into the tomatoes. To serve, remove toothpicks from chicken and serve with mashed potato and rocket. Spoon over the warm tomato sauce.