Balsamic Chicken with Roast Capsicum & Chickpeas

This has to be one of my favorite meals to make. Husband loves it (except the capsicum, i take that out of his) family love it… Plus you can add pretty much whatever you like to it, change the meat, add avocado, put sun dried tomatoes in it, you like it – chuck it in – just remember its all about the dressing

Balsamic Chicken Salad

Stuff you’ll need

Stuff you will need

Purple onion, chunky diced
Garlic, sliced
Chickpeas
Mixed lettuce leaves
Feta cheese, chunky cubed (i use low fat greek – make sure the one you choose is a little bit hard – dont use the soft kind)
Cucumber, sliced
Chicken breast
Cornflour
Balsamic glaze (not balsamic vinegar, must be the glaze, its thick and its sweet and its all kinds of naughty for you)
Olive oil

How i did it

Cut the chicken into thin strips / slices and coat with cornflour salt & pepper- just enough flour to cover the chicken dont overdo it.

Chuck the chicken into the cornflour with salt & pepper

Set aside till later. Cut the capsicum, i just used one side as i was the only one eating – add more the more people you have. Slice some garlic – if you dont like garlic just leave this one out, if you love it slice as little or as much as you can handle – i LOVE garlic so i had three cloves today.

Some Capsicum

Some Garlic

Into a pan

Place the garlic and capsicum on a tray and place under the grill – make sure you keep a close eye on it or it will burn (trust me ive done it on many occasions!)

While the capsicum and garlic is grilling chuck some oil, balsamic glaze and chilli sauce if you like a bit of spice into the bottom of a bowl.

Oil, Balsamic Glaze & Chilli Sauce

Mix the dressing and swish it around the bowl.

Swish, swish, swish

Chuck in some lettuce leaves and sliced cucumber – now here is the important bit, if you dont do this then there is no point making the salad – honestly! Mix through the dressing with your hands… yes your hands, use your hands (please make sure they are clean!) by using your hands you make sure the dressing is all over the lettuce and cucumber, this is what makes it SUPER yummy!

Lettuce & Cucumber

Yes, yes you really must use your hands

Place salad on a plate and set that aside (oh but make sure you dont leave it too long, you have to dress the salad then cook the chicken right away or the lettuce leaves go soggy – ewwwwww) oh and while your doing that make sure you check up on that capsicum.

Anywho, chuck some oil in a pan on the heat and fry off the onion and chickpeas, once the onion is softish and the chickpeas have some colour, place them under the oven grill with the capsicum which you have not burned.

Into the pan & under the grill

Get the pan hot again and put some more oil in there, fry the chicken off – you might have to do in batches, you want it to be crispy not soggy.

Frying chicken

Once the chicken is cooked get the capsicum, onions and chickpeas out of the oven. Slice the capsicum and set aside with the garlic that should have roasted nicely together, then chuck the onion and chickpeas into the pan with the chicken and get the temprature up high again,

It all happens in an instant!

then in an instant squeeze some of that balsamic glaze over the chicken and toss around. The glaze will coat and stick to the chicken and chickpeas and make them all kinds of yummy yummy in my (your) tummy.

Its happening!

Turn off the heat then in an instant – and i mean an instant, place the feta cheese chunks into the pan remove from the heat and toss through the balsamicy chickeny chickpea goodness,