Chicken and Butternut Dinner

Name: Chicken and Butternut Dinner
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 4 Tbsp butter; 1 Tbsp vegetable oil; 1 chicken breast, filleted into 2 flat pieces; 1/2 a medium butternut, peeled and cut into cubes; 2 Tbsp thyme; 1 large garlic clove, minced; 1 tsp spanish paprika; Green beans; Salt and pepper tp taste

Bianca Mwale @bianca_eatsy

Zomba, Malawi

Here is my impromptu participation in the #GoldenApron challenge this week, thanks to a stroke of luck. Until this morning, I had none of the listed ingredients. To my surprise, while running errands, fate led me into the supermarket where I unintentionally bought two items from the list. When I got home, I hoped onto a culinary adventure with my chicken breast and thyme, both coincidentally featured on this week's roster. Call it serendipity, but I am feeling like a culinary genie in the kitchen tonight 😉

Bianca Mwale @bianca_eatsy

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Ingredients

30 minutes

2 servings

4 Tbspbutter
1 Tbspvegetable oil
1chicken breast, filleted into 2 flat pieces
1/2a medium butternut, peeled and cut into cubes
2 Tbspthyme
1large garlic clove, minced
1 tspspanish paprika
Green beans
Salt and pepper tp taste

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Steps

30 minutes

1

Pat chicken fillets dry. Season with salt and pepper and set aside
2

In a skillet, melt 1 tablespoon of butter and oil on medium-high heat. Once melted and hot add in the fillets and cook turning as needed (approximately 3 minutes on each side) until browned and cooked to preference. Take chicken off skillet and set aside to rest. Keep covered to remain warm
3

In the same skillet add the remaining butter, cook whisking until starting to brown and foam. Quickly stir in the thyme, garlic, paprika, pepper and salt. Stir to combine and stir the butternut cubes until well coated in the butter mixture
4

Let mixture cook without stirring for 5 minutes to allow some caramelization on the butternut
5

Add in the green beans and stir. Turn heat to low, cover the skillet and cook for 10 minutes or until beans are crisp tender and butternut is fork tender
6

Serve warm with the chicken fillets. Enjoy 😉