Lemon Feta Chicken
09 Nov 2011 1 Comment
in Chicken, Quick and Easy Meals Tags: Chicken, chicken cooked in oven, fast healthy meal, feta, lemon
I am always on the lookout for good chicken recipes that don’t use the grill, since ours is snowed in for a few months every year. I find that many stove top and oven recipes leave the chicken dry. That is why one of my all-time favorite recipes is Chicken and Wine, because it is always flavorful and saucy and never dry. I need more recipes like that! So, when I saw this recipe on Mag-Pie’s & More, I knew I had to try it.
File this one under “super quick and easy!” The lemon juice and oregano together make for a simple, clean flavor. The feta adds just a bit of creamy zing that makes a nice finish for this quick dish. I added onions and diced tomatoes, for color and flavor. I served alongside a delicious couscous salad; recipe for that coming soon!
Lemon Feta Chicken
adapted from Mag-Pie’s & More
Serves 4-5
4 boneless chicken breasts
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/2 cup diced tomato
1 medium onion, sliced thinly
1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese
Directions
Preheat oven to 400°. Place onions and tomato in the bottom of a 13 x 9 inch baking dish coated with cooking spray. Arrange chicken breasts on top. Pour lemon juice over chicken; sprinkle with oregano and pepper.
Bake, uncovered, for 20-25 minutes until chicken is not longer pink inside and/or until a meat thermometer reads 170°. Remove chicken from oven and top with feta. Return to oven and broil for 3 minutes or until feta is golden brown.
Jen’s Guacamole with Feta
08 Jun 2011 5 Comments
in Dips Tags: avocado, feta, guacamole, simple recipe
Guacamole with Feta
There has been a string of beautiful weather over the past couple of weeks, and with it a seemingly endless number of celebrations. We’ve had the annual Memorial Day cookout, the end-of-a-tough-soccer-season pool party, and the we-got-knocked out-of-the-baseball-playoffs gathering. Never wanting to go empty-handed, I often bring along chips and salsa. Always a crowd pleaser, sure, but let’s admit it — BORING.
What to do? Recently I whipped up a batch of my sister’s incredible guacamole recipe. I can’t remember where she got it from, but she started bringing it to family events a few years ago and it gets rave reviews. Purists, beware! This is not your everyday guacamole recipe, but it is devilishly delicious!! And with only four ingredients, it couldn’t be any simpler.
If you gave up on avocados long ago ’cause they’re just too dang awkward to cut and peel, please review this, a wonderful explanation on how to quickly and easily handle this ugly little fruit. Trust me, if you’ve bobbled an avocado crazily while attempting to seed it, or sent the golfball-like seed flying across the kitchen, or cursed madly while trying to pull it out with your fingers, check out the link. It will be 45 seconds well spent.
Ready to get started? Grab your potato masher and your chef’s knife and let’s get on with it!
Guacamole with Feta
Serves a bunch
3 ripe avocados
1/2 med. purple onion, chopped
1/2 pint grape tomatoes, halved (or 2-3 plum tomatoes, seeded and chopped)
1/2 c. feta cheese
Salt & pepper to taste
1) In a medium bowl, mash the pulp of the three avocados with a potato masher.
2) Stir in the onion, tomatoes and feta cheese.
3) Add salt and pepper to taste
4) Serve immediately with whole grain crackers or tortilla chips
Yes, it really is that easy. You are WELCOME 
