Chicken Breast with Fennel and Coarse Mustard

Ingredients

• 4 chicken breast fillets (about 160 g)
• Salt
• Pepper (freshly ground)
• 2 bulbs fennel (about 130 g each)
• 2 tbsp plant oil
• 125 ml dry white wine
• 5 tbsp orange juice
• 2 tbsp coarse mustard
• sugar

Instructions

1. 1.

   Preheat the oven to 200°C with top and bottom heat.

2. 2.

   Wash, pat dry, salt, and pepper the chicken breasts. Clean and quarter the fennel bulbs, setting aside the fennel fronds. Heat oil in a roasting pan and brown the chicken on both sides. Deglaze with white wine and orange juice, stir in mustard and a pinch of sugar, then add the fennel. Roast in the oven for 15-20 minutes, turning once or twice. Remove and serve garnished with fennel fronds.