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TUSCAN CHICKEN WITH SUN-DRIED TOMATOES & CREAMY GARLIC SAUCE

This Tuscan Chicken is a low carb and keto pleasant meal with hen breasts, spinach, and sun-dried tomatoes cooked in a creamy garlic sauce. It’s a quickly 30-minute one-pan meal, vast for weeknight dinners.

COOKING WITH CHICKEN BREASTS

This recipe is impressed by using way of my creamy bird skillet dinners, like pan-seared bird with a creamy caper sauce, tomato bird with basil garlic sauce, and lemon bird piccata. There are many taste combinations that work effectively with bird and are low in carbs

When running with bird breasts, slice every breast horizontally in half to scale back its thickness previous to cooking. This makes it simpler to cook, with a quicker and extra predictable cooking time, and effects in extra mushy and moist meat. It’s also much simpler than pounding bird breasts to flatten them.

Another tip for juicier bird breasts is to allow them relaxation for about 5 minutes after cooking. As the bird cools, the juices are sealed in. If you’ve ever sliced into bird right now after cooking, you’ll be aware liquid pooling out of the meat, leaving behind dry and tough-tasting chicken. In this recipe, the bird will get a threat to relaxation whereas you're employed at the sauce.

SERVING SUGGESTIONS

This bird dinner could be a filling and hearty dinner for two, or it might feed 4 of us with further edge dishes to spherical out the meal. Here are a few strength low carb sides:

• oven roasted vegetables like cauliflower, mushrooms, or brussels sprouts
• creamed spinach (easy one-pot stovetop recipe)
• mashed cauliflower (looks and tastes like mashed potatoes)

LOWER CALORIE OPTION

I have also made a decrease calorie model of this meal by means of small modifications within the sauce’s ingredients, which brings the energy per serving down to 610 kcal: scale back the heavy whipping cream to 1/4 cup, and omit the butter entirely. There’s much less general sauce, however the similar huge flavors are nonetheless there. Keep all different meals the same.

Tuscan Chicken

This Tuscan Chicken is a low carb and keto pleasant meal with fowl breasts, spinach, and sun-dried tomatoes cooked in a creamy garlic sauce. It's a quickly 30-minute one-pan meal, vast for weeknight dinners.

 Prep Time 15 minutes

 Cook Time 15 minutes

 Servings 2 servings

 Calories 780 kcal

Ingredients:

• 2 (8 ounces each) boneless skinless fowl breasts
• 1 cup (1 ounce) roughly chopped recent child spinach
• 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1/2 cup (2 ounces) finely grated parmesan cheese plus extra for serving
• 1/4 cup (3/4 ounce) finely chopped sun-dried tomatoes
• 5 cloves garlic minced
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons salted butter
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• salt and pepper to taste

Instructions:

1. Cut every fowl breast horizontally so it is half as thick as before, ensuing in four thinner pieces. Pat dry with a paper towel. Generously season equally facets of every fowl piece with salt and pepper.
2. Heat a extensive pan over medium to medium-high warmth till hot. Add olive oil to disguise the pan.
3. Add fowl breasts to the pan in one layer. Cook till every edge is golden brown, four to 5 minutes per side. When the fowl is cooked through, move to a plate. Work in batches in case your pan isn't big sufficient to grasp all of them at once.
4. Reduce to low heat. Add heavy cream, butter, and parmesan cheese to the pan. Stir till the butter and cheese has melted, scraping up any bits that have caught to the pan.
5. Increase to medium warmth and deliver to a simmer. Add spinach and stir till it has wilted.
6. Add minced garlic and oregano, stirring till well-mixed.
7. Transfer the fowl again to the pan, leaving any liquid at the plate, and simmer for a minute. Top with sun-dried tomatoes. Turn off the heat.
8. Serve whereas hot, and optionally ideal with extra grated parmesan cheese.