Caprese Chicken

With my first pregnancy, and now with this one, I really don’t like chicken or any white meat for that matter. The texture seems off and I just have a hard time with it. However, I don’t think it is that healthy to have just red meat when I do have meat so I try to eat white meat. I have been feeling in a rut and since we moved across the country and sold our grill before leaving, I haven’t liked our regular white meat meals.

I remembered this from my high school days working for a group home and some of the meals we would help the residents make. It is super juicy, moist and full of flavor. I have only ever made it from memory and I am sure it has been tweaked from what my supervisor at the group home taught me but this is the way I like it.

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Cover a cookie sheet in foil and spray with cooking spray. Pound out the chicken breasts so they are pretty even in thickness and layout them out on the sheets. Sprinkle with a little salt. Once the oven is heated, bake the chicken for 10 minutes.

While that is cooking, slice the tomatoes, plan on about 3 slices for each breast. Reserve a 1/2 tomato. After the timer goes off, take out the sheet and flip the chicken. Take the reserved 1/2 tomato and squeeze the juice over the top of the breasts. Place the sliced tomatoes over the breasts.

Sprinkle the basil over the tomatoes and then lay the sliced mozzarella, one or two slices per breast depending on your taste. Return the pan to the oven and cook another 10 minutes or until the internal temperature is at 165 degrees.

You’ll have a moist juicy chicken breast, full of flavor. It’s perfect with a side salad or even the pine nut pasta salad I posted the other day. Enjoy.

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Caprese Chicken

Ingredients

4 Chicken Breasts
4 Fresh Tomatoes
1 TBSP Basil
4-8 Slices of Mozzarella Cheese

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Cover a cookie sheet in foil and spray with cooking spray. Pound out the chicken breasts so they are pretty even in thickness and layout them out on the sheets. Sprinkle with a little salt.
Once the oven is heated, bake the chicken for 10 minutes.
Sprinkle the basil over the tomatoes and then lay the sliced mozzarella, one or two slices per breast depending on your taste. Return the pan to the oven and cook another 10 minutes or until the internal temperature is at 165 degrees.

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