Aegean Chicken
Transport to the Mediterranean with this Greek island-inspired chicken dish. The delicious fried chicken smothered in the tomato, mushroom and garlic sauce is like an island adventure in your mouth!
Notes
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Ingredients
- 4 whole chicken breasts, skinless, boneless, halved
- 9 ounce marinated artichoke hearts, reserve liquid
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- Flour to dredge chicken
- 1/2 pound mushrooms quartered
- 2 tablespoon butter
- 1 can Italian tomatoes with liquid, 22 oz
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 3/4 teaspoon oregano
- 1 teaspoon basil
- 1/2 cup black olives, pitted
- 3/4 cup sherry, straight
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Bring chicken breasts to room temperature. Cut each half-breast into 3 or 4 pieces.
- Drain artichoke hearts, reserving liquid.
- Combine half of this liquid in a saute pan with 2 tbsp of the olive oil.
- Dredge chicken in a little flour. Saute chicken in hot oil mixture in 3 or 4 batches, adding more of the reserved artichoke liquid as necessary.
- Remove chicken from pan and saute mushrooms, adding butter as needed. Reserve mushrooms in a large bowl.
- Pour the tomatoes and their liquid, the garlic, and the seasonings into a saute pan, and simmer about 10 mins.
- Add chicken, olives, reserved artichoke hearts and sherry. Cook another 10 mins, then add mushrooms.
- Cool mixture and refrigerate or freeze up to one month.
- On serving day, bring chicken back to room temperature. Bake in 350F oven until hot and bubbly. Serve over brown rice.
- NOTE: I add some feta cheese crumbled over it. Also, it was great with some orzo pasta.