Pan-fried chicken with roasted vegetable sauce and rice
Recipe for juicy pan-fried chicken with roasted vegetable sauce, rice and broccolini.
Servings 4 servings
Ingredients
Roasted vegetable sauce
- 3 red peppers
- 150 g carrots
- 2 onions
- 4 cloves garlic
- 300 g cherry tomatoes
- 1/2 fresh chilli, adjust the heat to taste
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp rosemary
- 1 tsp thyme
- 150-200 ml chicken stock
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- Freshly squeezed lemon juice
Chicken
- 2 chicken breast fillets
- Olive oil
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- Other spices (optional)
To serve
- 200 g broccolini
- 300 g rice
Instructions
- Wash and prepare all the vegetables for the sauce. Halve the peppers and remove the seeds, cut the carrots into smaller slices, halve the onions and remove the skins, and cut the base off the garlic cloves but leave the skins on.
- Spread the peppers, carrots, onions, garlic, tomatoes and chilli on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Drizzle the oil over the top and season with the herbs, salt and freshly ground pepper.
- Roast the vegetables in a preheated oven at 220°C, conventional (top and bottom heat), for approx. 30-35 minutes.
- Meanwhile, cook the rice as directed on the packet and leave it to rest in the pan.
- Wash the broccolini and split the stems in half lengthways if they are very thick. Set aside.
- Slice the chicken breast fillets horizontally (parallel to the board) into two thinner pieces – so you have 4 flat fillets. Season with salt, freshly ground pepper and, if you like, a few other spices such as paprika.
- Heat a splash of oil in a frying pan and fry the chicken over medium heat until golden on both sides and cooked through in the middle.
- Tip the vegetables into a blender along with the hot stock and blend until smooth. Season with freshly squeezed lemon juice, salt and freshly ground pepper and adjust the consistency with more stock if needed.
- Set the chicken aside on a chopping board and fry the broccolini in the same pan for a couple of minutes over a high heat. Set them aside as well.
- Slice the chicken and serve with the cooked rice, topped with the vegetable sauce and the fried broccolini.