Balsamic Chicken With Spinach and Fresh Tomato

Submitted by Emily Han

"Fresh & easy, tweak as you like. As mentioned below, I serve it over egg noodles. Recipe from Check Your Health courtesy of Chef Bryan Wolley."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 2-4

ingredients

• 4 (6 ounce) chicken breasts
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 1⁄2 onion, diced
• 2 cups fresh tomatoes, diced
• 1⁄4 cup balsamic vinegar
• 1⁄4 cup white wine
• 4 cups spinach, washed and dried
• 1 teaspoon basil, dried
• extra virgin olive oil, for pan
• salt and pepper, to taste

directions

1. Heat a large skillet and coat the bottom with just enough olive oil (about 2 Tbsp).
2. Saute garlic, dried basil, and onion until fragrant.
3. Flatten chicken breasts to 1/2 inch thick. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, sesar each breast side for about 6 minutes or until done.
4. When you have about 5 minutes left, add the tomatoes, vinegar and wine.
5. Allow to cook down for last 5 minutes.
6. Place a cup of spinach onto a plate, followed by the tomato reduction and then top off with the chicken.
7. Alternatively, toss spinach in the pan and stir for a minute or two, and serve skillet contents on top of egg noodles (our favorite way to eat it!).

Reviews

[Katanashrp]

Absolutely delicious, and so simple. Thank you very much.

 

[dukeswalker]

I feel bad giving this such a low rating but WOWZER - if you want a bowl full of vinegar, make this. We love vinegar, in fact, our salad dressing is straight balsamic with a little s&p. The vinegar on this completely overpowered everything else in the dish. I had to add about 2 cups of chicken broth to make it edible - but then it was a soupy mess. This might work with a very mild balsamic - skip the high $ bottle for this recipe.

 

[RedhairMac]

We all loved this. I did do a couple of minor tweaks: I diced the chicken instead of using whole breasts and used 1/3 of a box of Pomi tomatoes instead of fresh (Pomi is pretty much as good as fresh). To finish it off, I added the fresh spinach to the sauce and served over cooked farfalle. Topped with a bit of freshy grated Parmiagiano-Reggiano, it was SOOOO yummy!

 

[Nancy W.]

Great flavor and aroma. Don't understand the calorie count-710 calories? Served with brown Texmati rice blend or low glycemic index pasta. I also put in less spinach and served with roasted asparagus, which really compliments the balsamic flavour.

 

[Princess Pea]

This is a wonderfully easy to make dinner packed with fresh flavor. My "tweaks" were: used chicken broth in place of white wine (didn't have any), added a few shakes of Montreal steak seasoning to the chicken breasts along with salt before searing, removed seeds from the tomatoes, and added fresh chopped basil at the end. I served this over egg noodles as suggested. Thank you for a great recipe!