Low-Carb Pepperoni Pizza Chicken

Ingredients

• Pasta sauce

  Spaghetti/marinara, ready-to-serve

  1 ⅔ cup or 428g

• Chicken breast

  Broilers or fryers, meat only, raw

  4 full breast (both fillets) or 944g

• Oregano

  Spices, dried

  1 tsp, ground or 2g

• Garlic powder

  Spices

  1 tsp or 3g

• Olive oil

  Salad or cooking

  1 tbsp or 14g

• Mozzarella cheese

  Part skim milk, low moisture

  1 cup, shredded or 113g

• Pepperoni

  Pork, beef

  2 oz or 56g

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Put the pizza sauce in a small saucepan and simmer over low heat until it has reduced to one cup, about 20 minutes. Don't skip this step or the dish will be watery.
2. While the sauce reduces, trim the chicken breasts and cut each one crosswise to make two same-size pieces. Put chicken pieces one at a time inside a heavy plastic bag and use a meat mallet (or something heavy) to pound the chicken until it's as thin as you can get it without it shredding apart. (Don't worry if some pieces break apart a little.) Mix the oregano and garlic powder in a little bowl and then sprinkle both sides of each piece of chicken with the mixture.
3. Heat the olive oil over medium-high heat in the largest non-stick frying pan you have (you may have to do this in 2 batches if your pan isn't big enough.) Add the chicken pieces and cook 1-2 minutes on each side, just long enough to brown the chicken but not long enough to cook it through.
4. Choose the smallest casserole dish you have that will fit all the browned chicken pieces, and lay the chicken in the dish in a single layer. Cut the Mozzarella into slices and cut the slices as needed to make enough pieces to mostly cover the top of each piece of chicken.
5. By now the sauce should be nicely reduced, so spread sauce over the top of each chicken breast. (Use it all.) Top each piece with sliced Mozzarella and pepperoni slices, covering the top of each piece of chicken as much as you can.
6. Bake uncovered about 25-30 minutes, or until the cheese is melted and starting to brown and the pepperoni is slightly crisped. Serve hot and enjoy!

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