Basil Chicken

• 300 grams Chicken breast or thigh meat
• 20 leaves Fresh basil
• 1 * Salt
• 1 * Black pepper
• 1/2 clove * Grated garlic
• 1 tbsp * Olive oil
• 1 pack Cherry tomatoes

1. The chicken in the photo is breast from a young bird.
2. When I weighed it it was a bit more than 360 g. I used 2 breasts - 1 breast per serving.
3. Make the basil, cherry tomatoes and black pepper ready.
4. Cut the chicken breasts or thighs into 2 pieces.
5. Pound them out so that they are about the same thickness and cut a pocket in the middle of each piece.
6. Rub in the ingredients marked - salt, pepper, garlic and olive oil.
7. Leave to rest and marinate a bit.
8. While the meat is marinating, cut the cherry tomatoes.
9. Insert the basil leaves inside the pockets you made in the chicken pieces.
10. Fry the chicken pieces in a frying pan until one side is browned, then flip over and cook the pieces through.
11. When the chicken is cooked add the tomatoes, and coat the chicken pieces with the juice that comes out of them.
12. Transfer the chicken and tomatoes to serving plates.
13. Reduce the remaining tomato and chicken juice in the pan and pour over the dish to finish.

chicken, basil, salt, black pepper, garlic, olive oil, pack

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/154445-basil-chicken (may not work)