Cheddar chicken with potatoes recipe
For 2 servings
Timing
- Preparation: 20 min
- Cooking: 40 min
- Total: 60 min
Ingredients
- 4 fillets of chicken
- 2 lemons
- 1.76 lbs (800g) potatoes
- 7 oz (200g) matured cheddar
- 1 teaspoon thyme
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
- 1 garlic clove
- Olive oil
- Salt and pepper
The variety of potatoe is important. Use preferably potatoes that are recognized to be excellent when baked in oven. for this recipe use small to medium size potatoes. Don’t use large size. In France we may use the following varieties: Noirmoitier, Charlotte, Roseval. In other countries try to find Yukon gold, King Edward, Adrianne, Carolus, Maris Pipers, Spanish Agria, Cara, Russet
Instructions
Prepare potatoes
- Preheat oven to 390°F (200°C)
- Wash one lemon and remove the peel. Thinly chop the peel (zest)
- Squeeze the juice of the two lemons
- Wash the potatoes then half them and finally slice them (half slices of about 0.4 inches – 1cm)
- Lay the potatoes on a baking tray covered with a baking paper
- Sprinkle with thyme, lemon zest, salt and pepper and baste with a drizzle of olive oil and the lemon juice
- Mix it with your fingers and bake for about 20 minutes
Prepare the parsley mix
- In the meantime wash and chop the parsley. Peel the garlic and half it to remove the seed. Thinly chop it.
- In a bowl, mix together the parsley, the garlic and one drizzle of olive oil
Prepare the chicken
- Heat up a pan on high fire with a drizzle of olive oil
- Salt and pepper the chicken fillets on both sides
- Brown them in the pan for about 2 minutes each side
- Let cool in a plate for about 5 minutes
- Slit the fillets in two on almost all the length. The key word in the sentence is “almost”: the chicken fillets should be cut in two seperated pieces
- Open then and fill them with cheddar and the parsley mix. Then close the chicken fillets
Cheddar chicken finishing touch
- After the 20 minutes of cooking, add the chicken fillets on the backing tray along the potatoes and continue cooking for about 10 minutes (in total the potatoes will cook during 30 minutes…)
- Once the preparation is baked and out of the oven, cut each chicken fillets in three pieces and serve them in a plate with the potatoes
- Enjoy your cheddar chicken fillets with lemon herbs baked potatoes!
The recipe “Cheddar chicken with lemon herbs baked potatoes” comes from the Blog Les Commis
Before that generous dish, start your dinner with a Pumpkin and Carrot soup