Ratatouille Baked Hen – .
Ratatouille Baked Chicken takes a classic French dish and turns it into a family-friendly comfort dish with vegetables.
Ratatouille baked chicken
This pot-baked chicken and vegetable dish is a great way to use eggplants once they're in your garden or at farmers markets. Ratatouille is usually a vegetarian dish, but I love how it is paired with chicken here. If you want to be strictly meatless, try my baked ratatouille with havarti or these grilled vegetarian stacks with mozzarella. You can also see more chicken recipes here.
This recipe was slightly adapted from Fix It with Food: Over 125 Recipes to Fix Autoimmune Problems and Inflammation: A Cookbook (Affil Link) by Michael Symon. In this cookbook, Super Chef Michael Symon gives you delicious recipes with a 10-day “reset”. The book contains 4 main sections with a "fix" for each of the trigger areas: Dairy-Free, Sugar-Free, Flour-Free, Meat-Free.
I got interested in this dish because I love how he turned a classic French side dish into a main course and created a delicious stew that is perfect this time of year. Finishing the chicken in the stew will make the vegetables even tastier and the chicken will stay moist, a win!
In this chicken stew you will find onions, garlic, eggplant, zucchini, peppers and tomatoes, seasoned with fresh basil. Everything you can find in the farmers market right now! It's dairy-free, gluten-free, and perfect for Whole30 diets.
How to make ratatouille baked chicken
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Ratatouille baked chicken
Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 1 hours
Total time: 1 hours 10 min
Ratatouille Baked Chicken takes a classic French dish and turns it into a family-friendly comfort dish with vegetables.
- 2 tablespoon Extra virgin olive oil
- 8th Bone-in Chicken thighs, Skin removed
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 small yellow onion, roughly chopped
- 5 Garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 big aubergine, peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes
- 1 tablespoon Tomato paste
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh thyme
- 2 medium zucchini, cut into ½ inch cubes
- 1 yellow pepper, cut into ½ inch squares
- 5 ripe tomatoes, cut into ½ inch cubes
- 1 Cup fresh basil leaves, finely chopped
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Preheat the oven to 400 ° F.
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Set a large Dutch oven on medium to high heat. Add 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil and heat for shimmer.
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Pat the chicken dry with paper towels, season with salt and pepper on all sides and place the chicken in the pan. Cook without moving until it is nicely browned and the meat comes out of the pan, about 5 minutes.
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Turn and continue cooking until the other side starts to brown, about 3 minutes. Place the chicken on a plate and set aside.
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Reduce the heat to medium and add the remaining olive oil, onion, garlic and a pinch of salt. Cook for about 3 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables soften.
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Add the eggplant and another pinch of salt and cook, stirring occasionally, for about 5 minutes, until the eggplant softens.
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Add the tomato paste and thyme and cook for 1 minute, stirring constantly.
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Add the zucchini, bell peppers, tomatoes, another pinch of salt, and a pinch of black pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, for about 10 minutes, until all the vegetables are tender.
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Take the pan off the stove.
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Partially dip the chicken in the vegetables. Transfer the saucepan to the oven and cook, uncovered, until the thickest part of the chicken reaches an internal temperature of 160 ° F (about 20 minutes).
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Take out of the oven and let stand for 10 minutes. Stir in the basil and serve.
Portion: 2Thigh 3/4 cup vegetables, Calories: 543kcal, Carbohydrates: 28.5G, Protein: 63.5G, Fat: 20thG, Saturated fatty acids: 4.5G, Cholesterol: 280mg, Sodium: 340.5mg, Fiber: 9G, Sugar: 10G
Blue Smart Points: 9
Green Smart Points: 9
Purple Smart Points: 9
Keywords: Baked Ratatouille, Stew Chicken and Vegetables, Ratatouille Baked Chicken
Recipes courtesy of Fix It with Food. Copyright © 2019 by Michael Symon and Douglas Trattner. Published by Clarkson Potter, from Penguin Random House.
sent August 11, 2020 by Gina
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