Creamy Tomato Basil Skillet Chicken

Ingredients

• Chicken breast

  Broilers or fryers, meat and skin, raw

  4 full breast (both fillets) or 1.16kg

• Olive oil

  Salad or cooking

  2 tbsp or 27g

• Basil

  Spices, dried

  1 tbsp, leaves or 2g

• Tomatoes

  Green, raw

  7 medium or 861g

• Chicken stock

  Soup, home-prepared

  ½ cup or 120g

• Coconut milk

  Nuts, canned (liquid expressed from grated meat and water)

  ½ cup or 113g

• Garlic

  Raw

  2 cloves, minced or 6g

• Basil

  Fresh

  10 leaf, whole or 5g

• Salt

  Table

  ¾ tsp or 5g

• Pepper

  Spices, black

  ½ tsp or 1g

• Cherries

  Sweet, canned, pitted, heavy syrup, drained

  ⅓ cup or 60g

• Spinach

  Cooked, boiled, drained, with salt

  5 oz or 142g

• Basil

  Fresh

  2 tbsp, chopped or 5g

• Arrowroot flour

  1 ½ tbsp or 12g

• Water

  Plain, clean water

  1 tbsp or 15g

Directions

1. Slice your 4 chicken breasts horizontally to create 8 thin breast cutlets. (If you have a smaller skillet you can leave the breasts whole. I like them thin to soak up more sauce and cook faster.)
2. Add olive oil to skillet. Heat to medium high heat.
3. Add chicken to hot pan. Sprinkle salt, pepper, and dried basil on top of each breast. Cook until browned, about 5 minutes. Flip chicken. Cook until remaining side of chicken is browned, about 5 minutes. (It can take less time if you're using smaller cutlets so keep an eye on them.)
4. Remove chicken from the skillet and set aside on a plate.
5. Add all sauce ingredients to blender. Blend until smooth.
6. Pour blended sauce into the pan. Add spinach and a handful of cherry tomatoes. Stir until spinach is mixed in with sauce. Add your chicken back to the pan. Reduce heat to medium low or low. Cover and simmer for 5 minutes so sauce is heated through and cherry tomatoes are softened.
7. To thicken sauce, turn off heat. Shake together 1 tablespoon arrowroot flour and 1 tablespoon cold water in a small jar. Pour flour slurry into the sauce and stir. Sauce will begin to thicken quickly as you stir. If you want an even thicker sauce, repeat steps with another 1/2 tablespoon arrowroot flour and 1/2 tablespoon water. (Be sure not to add the arrowroot flour directly to the sauce or you'll end up with clumps. It must be shaken with equal parts water before being added to sauce.) Sprinkle chopped fresh basil on top of chicken before serving.
8. Recipe by: Christina (source: https://thewholecook.com/creamy-tomato-basil-skillet-chicken/)

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