Chicken Kleftiko
Author/ Συγγραφέας: Katerina
Recipe type/ Τύπος Πιάτου: Main Course
Cuisine/ Κουζίνα: Greek
Serves: 3
- 3 chicken breast halves
- 70 gr. / 3 oz. of feta cheese per half breast, I used 210 gr. / 9 oz. in total
- 1 tomato, sliced
- 1 green pepper, sliced
- 3 carrots, sliced
- A bunch of parsley, chopped
- 1 onion, sliced
- 1 ½ tbsp sugar
- ¼ cup sweet wine per half breast, I used sweet wine of Samos, but any sweet wine is fine, ¾ cup in total
- 3 tbsp olive oil per pocket
- ½ tsp dried oregano per half breast
- Salt and pepper
- Preheat oven to 200° C / 400° F.
- Cut three pieces of parchment paper big enough to carry a half breast along with the vegetables and liquids and be able to seal it with a thin rope.
- Take one half breast and place it on the parchment paper.
- Repeat with the rest.
- Salt and pepper them.
- Add the 70 gr. / 3 oz. of feta cheese above each one of them.
- Divide the vegetables equally among the three pockets starting with the tomato, after add the pepper, next the onion and finishing with the parsley.
- Divide the sugar equally to all three of them.
- Without pouring the wine and olive oil and open as they are, squeeze them in a pan very close to each other.
- Pour the wine and olive oil and seal them with the thin rope.
- Spray the pockets with water and bake them at the lowest level of your oven for an hour.
- Remove from the oven.
- Open the pockets and place them under the broiler at the medium rack of your oven at 225° C / 437 ° F for about 10 minutes.
- Now please pay attention, don’t leave the oven unattended as broiler has very high temperature and can burn your meal.
- Remove and drain the liquids.
- Place the liquids in a small pot and boil for five minutes.
- You can thicken this sauce by whisking 1 tbsp of corn flour dissolved in 1 tbsp water into it.
- Transfer them to a platter and serve pouring the sauce on top of them.
Recipe by Culinary Flavors at https://www.culinaryflavors.gr/chicken-kleftiko/
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