Taking On Jamie - #5 - Golden Chicken with Braised Greens and Potato Gratin

 I liked this dish so much, I made it for friends that came for dinner last week
As seen above

It appears to be very rich, but really there is only 100 mls cream and 30 gms cheese

Of course it took a lot longer cooking for 9, I didn’t race the clock then

Didn't time it

But it seems when I did it for 4, the "15 minute" version

15 minutes was too hard

By the way 

This is a great way to cook chicken breasts

You know how easily they dry out

Well they were tender and moist  

 In fact I liked the method of seasoning and bashing so much,

 I carried through this prep and bread crumbed the breasts and the Children had a wonderful Chicken and Chips dinner on Tuesday

They loved it

As I don’t have any fresh herbs on hand, 

I used the tube of Rosemary Paste, 

warning this has wheat in it so not Gluten Free, so to be Gluten free use fresh herbs

Gather your ingredients

Olive Oil

Sea salt

Freshly ground black pepper

Large Sheet Baking paper

200 gms Frozen Peas

1 x Leek washed and sliced

200 gms Baby Spinach

4 x 120 gm  Skinless Chicken breasts

Few sprigs of fresh Rosemary or Rosemary paste

2 rashers of middle Bacon

8oo gms Potatoes  sliced

3 Onions  peeled and sliced

1 teaspoon chicken stock powder

1/2 bunch sage leaves

100 mls cream

30 gms grated parmesan

For the “15 minutes” version

Get everything ready

Kettle filled with boiling water

Oven Grill on high

Food Processor (thin slicer ) rearing to go

Medium lidded pot on high heat

Larger High sided roasting  pan on high heat

Large frying pan on high heat

Let’s go

Put the potatoes through the slicer

Throw into hot pot

Pour over boiling water from kettle

Add salt

Lid on and bring to boil, let simmer

Slice onions

Into roasting pan add 2 tablespoon olive oil

Throw in onions

Season with S & P

Tear in sage leaves

Stir regularly adding a little water if they start to catch

Lay out baking paper

Toss the chicken with S & P and rosemary

Fold the paper over and bash the chicken with a rolling pin till flattened about 1.5 cms

Cook in frying pan with 1 tablespoon oil

Turning after 3-4 minutes until golden and cooked through

Remove and set aside

Add chopped bacon and toss around till cooked

Drain potatoes which should be fork tender in colander

Add to onions in pan

Spread into a flat layer

Pour cream over

And sprinkle Parmesan cheese on top

Into oven under grill

Grill till golden about 4-5 minutes

Meanwhile in the empty potato pan

Still on high heat

Add 1 tablespoon olive oil

Throw in prepared leeks

Toss around till just tender

Add peas and spinach

Stir till spinach wilted and peas tender

Pile on platter

Place Chicken breast and bacon on top

Remove Potatoes from oven

Serve
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