I am stuffed and I was able to cook dinner for Jen before she headed out to tennis practice. This is my 3rd favorite recipe for chicken and I have already shared my favorite, Jerk Chicken, so I will have to think when will be a good time to make my 2nd best chicken. Oh the choices I have to make. Total cost for this dinner was $12 and Jen has leftovers for tomorrow.

Dijon Chicken

2 bone-in chicken breast

3 tablespoons olive oil

3 cloves of garlic – minced

3 tablespoons of white wine

3 tablespoons of soy sauce

2 tablespoons of dijon mustard

Heat oil in a medium skillet. Also, preheat your oven to 350.

Now add the chicken and we are going to sear the outside.

I coated the outside of the chicken with salt and pepper which you can tell from this picture. While this is searing in the pan, take a bowl and mix in garlic, wine, soy sauce, and mustard.

Chicken should be seared on all sides and then move the chicken to a baking dish. Pour generously over the chicken, but don’t use all of the sauce, and put into the oven.

Every 15 minutes take your bowl of mixture that is left and continue to coat the top of the chicken throughout the cooking process in the oven (40-50 minutes).

While the chicken was cooking I made a simple salad to go with our chicken.

Simple Salad

1 bag of sweet butter salad mix

1 tomato

1/2 cucumber

1/2 red onion

4 greek peppers

1/4 cup fresh mozzarella

salt and pepper to taste

I dice up the tomato, red onion, cucumber, and mozarella and add to salad in a large bowl

Now it is time to wait for the chicken to be done so I go ahead and set up salad with Jen’s favorite dressing (Girard’s Champagne Dressing).

For the plating of this chicken, I put a small amount of the sauce on the plate and will let the chicken rest on it.

Now is about the time to put the salad in the bowls so here is how I presented the salad.

Now the chicken is done–look how awesome it turned out and trust me, it tastes even better than it looks!

I hope you all enjoy this dish cause I know I do–I’m still full. Time to go watch ESPN while Jen is at tennis practice!

Happy Cooking!