Mediterranean Chicken Bake

If you really want your kids to eat their vegetables, give them something worth eating.


What I love most about Mediterranean cuisine is the way they make their vegetables shine. There's no bland boiled spinach or soggy steamed carrots. They really know how to create an awesome medley of tasty veggies that
looks and tastes delicious. 

The colour alone is enough to excite me, and it certainly made an impression on Mr.4 tonight as he wolfed them down before I'd even finished dishing up my own meal.

This recipe serves four with one whole fillet per person (the little ones have half each).

Mediterranean Chicken Bake

Serves: 4
Time: 1 hour (15 minutes actual prep)

Single tray bake chicken and vegetables

---Ingredients---
4 Chicken thigh fillets
1 Tbs shaved parmesan cheese
Sage
Salt
Olive oil
Rosemary
Fresh basil leaves
1 red capsicum (red bell pepper)
1 small zucchini
1 large red onion
4 cloves of garlic
10-12 olives
3 large cup mushrooms

---Method---
•Preheat oven to 180°C
•Trim excess fat from chicken fillets and lay each one flat, skin side down. Give each fillet a light sprinkling of salt, sage and shaved Parmesan before folding each back together.
•Place folded fillets in a baking dish and drizzle with olive oil (about 2 teaspoons). Cover and bake for 30 minutes.
•Cut capsicum into large chunks, onion into wedges and thickly slice mushrooms and zucchini. Leave garlic cloves and olives whole.
•Spread vegetables in with the chicken, sprinkle with a pinch of salt, about ¼ teaspoon of sage, about ½ teaspoon rosemary and some fresh basil leaves.
Finish with another drizzle of olive oil and bake, uncovered, for a further 25 minutes (or until chicken is cooked through).


This dish was inspired by Daisy's and Pie's Italian Chicken Traybake


Comments

  1. Yum! This looks delicious - I do love a one tray wonder!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Thanks Sammie. One tray to cook means one tray to wash, I'm happy with that.

    ReplyDelete
  3. This looks easy and full of flavor, just how I like my dinner recipes. And now I know that a pepper is also called a "capsicum", thanks to Google.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. The funny translations we cooks have to make sometimes.

      Delete
  4. This looks so wonderful! Thanks for linking this up with Let's Get Real!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Full-time Parent Claims 'Sanity Day'.

Grocery Shopping on a Budget

ANZAC Biscuits