Chicken breast with apple-leek vegetables
Chicken breast with apple-leek vegetables is a recipe featuring fresh ingredients from the chicken category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 4 chicken breast fillets
- Salt
- Pepper (freshly ground)
- 1 Tbsp clarified butter
- 4 stalks thin young leeks
- 500 g tart apples (red and green)
- Lemon juice
- 50 g cranberries (or lingonberries or raisins)
- oil (for the baking dish)
- sage leaf (for garnish)
- 400 g couscous
- 400 ml water
- Salt
Instructions
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1.
Add boiling salted water to the couscous and let it swell for 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork and set aside warm.
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2.
Rub chicken breast fillets with salt and pepper.
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3.
Wash apples, quarter them, remove cores and cut into wedges, immediately drizzle with lemon juice.
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4.
Wash leeks, trim, and cut white and light green parts into about 4 cm pieces.
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5.
Preheat oven to 180°C and place an oiled baking dish in the oven.
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6.
Sear chicken breast fillets in hot clarified butter in a pan on one side briefly and sharply, then place them skin-side up in the heated baking dish. Arrange apple wedges, leek pieces, and cranberries around, season with pepper, and bake in the preheated oven for about 10 minutes.
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7.
Remove from oven, slice chicken breast diagonally, arrange over apple-leek mixture with couscous, garnish with sage leaves, and serve.
