Chicken in Bratschlauch

Prep: 20min
| Servings: 2 | Cook: 25min
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Chicken cooked in a bratschlauch (a sealed cooking pouch) requires no added fat, resulting in exceptionally tender poultry.

Ingredients

  • 250 g hard-boiling potatoes
  • Salt
  • 2 sprigs parsley
  • 1 sprig rosemary
  • 400 g chicken breast fillets (2 fillets)
  • Pepper
  • 6 artichoke hearts (canned)
  • 4 tomatoes
  • 1 tbsp Olive Oil
  • 125 ml white wine (or poultry broth)

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Wash, peel, and cut potatoes into 3 cm cubes.

  2. 2.

    Cook in boiling salted water for 6 minutes.

  3. 3.

    While the potatoes cook, wash parsley and rosemary, shake dry, pluck leaves or needles, finely chop, and place on a plate. Rinse chicken fillets cold, pat dry, season with salt and pepper, coat with herbs, pressing them firmly onto the fillets. Drain potatoes.

  4. 4.

    Drain artichoke hearts and halve them.

  5. 5.

    Wash tomatoes, halve them, remove stem ends in a wedge shape, and pit the halves.

  6. 6.

    Mix artichokes and tomato halves with potatoes and olive oil, season with salt and pepper.

  7. 7.

    Seal one side of a bratschlauch (about 35 cm long) according to package instructions. Add the vegetables, place chicken breasts on top, and pour in white wine.

  8. 8.

    Close the bratschlauch, place it on a cold baking sheet, make a small cut on the top surface. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C (fan: 160°C, gas: level 2-3) for 25 minutes.