Baked Chicken With Grilled Feta and Caramelized Onions

"This is a mixture of several recipes I've seen on this website, thanks to all the chefs who posted chicken recipes. The caramelized onions are and adaptation on someone else's onions, but I can't remember who right now (do tell if you know who you are)."
 
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Ready In:
50mins
Ingredients:
17
Serves:
2
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ingredients

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directions

  • Wash chicken breast fillets and pat dry, cut in half.
  • In a small pan heat butter and oil till liquid, set aside.
  • Take a large, heavy based, frying pan, heat and add 2 tbsp fat.
  • Fry chicken on a high heat until it has turned from its original rosy colour to white on both sides, remove from pan immediately, conserve the fat.
  • With a mortar and pestle take the rosemary, the salt, both types of peppercorns and the flour and crush everything together so you have a fine powder with a few sprigs of rosemary remaining, set aside.
  • Take the hot water and add the stock cube (use stock if you have any left from another day), add Tabasco, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, vinager and sugar set aside.
  • Heat oven to 350°F and place the remaining fat in an earthenware dish in the oven on a high shelf.
  • Re-heat the fat in the frying pan and when hot fry the onions on a medium heat until they "relax".
  • Turn the heat up to high and add 1/4 of the liquid, reduce until there is no liquid left, add another 1/4 of the liquid and repeat the process, finally add the remaining liquid and reduce again until all the liquid has evaporated, leave on a low heat for another 5 minutes, cover and set aside.
  • Take fried chicken and sprinkle with the flour mixture on one side.
  • Take the earthenware dish out of the oven and place the dusted side down in the fat, sprinkle the remaining mixture over the chicken.
  • Bake for 15 minutes (turn halfway).
  • Take crumbled feta cheese and crumble over the chicken.
  • Grill until the feta cheese has "set", so that its dry and slightly golden (feta does NOT melt, so don't sit around waiting for it to melt 'cus you'll get a very dry chicken).
  • To serve: re-heat the onions that have been steeping in their juices, and set up 3 pieces of chicken each with a"dollop" of onions in the centre.
  • Garnish with a sprig of rosemary (if you must garnish things).

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Reviews

  1. We made this for our Valentines Dinner. It was excellent! I forgot to add the sugar to the onions and they still came out really good, I've always used sugar when caramelizing my onions, but I don't think this really needed it. Rave reviews from our house. I also used balsamic vinegar instead of the sherry vinegar.
     
  2. Watch that you don't grill it too long on the last step - I burnt the feta. Still, this was delicious, looked classy, etc. It's even fun to cook!
     
  3. The onions are from this recipe (found it!!): Low-Fat Chicken with Caramelized Onions by chef Dancer^ I thought I'd rate my recipe 'cos I like it... so there! LOL :))
     
  4. My Daughter (16) and husband raved over this recipe. Thank you for coming up with a very nice "change from the norm". I served with Greek Salad and a pkg of "Carribean Rice". All went together well.
     
  5. Absolutly wonderful. I love feta cheese by the way.
     
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  1. We made this for our Valentines Dinner. It was excellent! I forgot to add the sugar to the onions and they still came out really good, I've always used sugar when caramelizing my onions, but I don't think this really needed it. Rave reviews from our house. I also used balsamic vinegar instead of the sherry vinegar.
     

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