Fiesta Chicken Recipe

Fiesta Chicken is a fabulous, fun, and flippin' fantastic recipe my family loves to eat at any time of the year.  And, even better, it is super easy to make.  So I thought I would go ahead and post the recipe for all of you to try.

Take a glass baking dish and drizzle extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) on the bottom.  I also use a rubber scrapper to spread the EVOO so it covers the entire bottom surface.  It should take roughly 2 tablespoons - depending on the size of the dish.

You will need chicken breasts.  Use one chicken breast for each person.  Because there is three in my little family, we used three chicken breasts.  You don't have to do anything special to the chicken breast except rinse it off with cold water before placing it in the dish.

Use plan Feta cheese.  We use Fat Free.

We then put about 2 tablespoons of feta cheese on each chicken breast.

On top of that, we dish out 2-3 tablespoons of our freshly made salsa (see yesterday's recipe) per chicken breast.

It should look like this before you put it in a 325 degree oven.  I always put aluminum foil on top to seal in the moisture.  You'll cook it for about an hour.

We typically serve Fiesta Chicken with Greek rice (brown rice, diced tomatoes, chopped onions, parsley, and topped with crumbled feta cheese).

And it will come out of the oven looking like this... Fabulous! Because you're slow cooking the chicken, it gives the EVOO time to work it's way up into the meat, while the salsa works it's way down - making a delightfully moist chicken that you can easily cut with a fork.  In fact, this batch of chicken was so moist and tender, we didn't even have to cut it.  When we stuck our forks into our individual portions, the chicken fell apart.  That's how great it is.  And that salsa topping adds enough kick to the satisfy you feisty side.

Enjoy!

Fiesta Chicken

2-3 tablespoons of freshly made salsa (see salsa recipe)
1 chicken breast per person
EVOO
Feta Cheese (2 tablespoons per chicken breast)

Drizzle EVOO on the bottom of your glass baking dish.  Rinse off chicken breast with cold water and place in glass dish on EVOO.  Spread 2 tablespoons Feta Cheese on each chicken breast.  Top chicken breast and feta with 2-3 tablespoons of salsa.  Cover glass baking dish with aluminum foil. Bake in oven at 325 degrees for 1 hour.