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Quick Meals Planner: Welcome Fall Dinner

Tapenade Stuffed Chicken Breasts | Ratatouille | Heritage Tomato Salad | Roasted Figs with Goat Cheese and Honey

Tapenade Stuffed Chicken Breasts

Recipe Summary
Complexity:Easy
Serves:4
Category:Chicken Entrée
Meal:Welcome Fall Dinner (Quick Meals Planner)
4mediumchicken breasts, boneless, skinless
0.5cuptapenade
1Tboil, olive
2Tbbutter, salted
0.5cupmushrooms, sliced
0.5mediumonions, chopped
0.5cupwater
0.5cupwine, dry white
1pinchsalt and pepper to taste
 

Cut a pocket in the chicken breast about 1/3 of the way down. Place a Tb of tapenade into the pocket and fold breast back over the opening. Heat the oil and 1 Tb of the butter in a frying pan; when shimmering add the chicken and brown on both sides. Remove chicken to an oven-proof pan, and place in a 350 degree oven for 12 minutes, until juices run clear. Add mushrooms and onions to the frying pan, cook until light brown, add water and stir to get all the fond off the bottom of the pan. Add the white wine, swirl in the butter and add salt and pepper to taste. Remove chicken from oven and place on serving platter; pour pan juices from oven pan into the frying pan, stir and pour over the chicken and serve.

Ratatouille

Recipe Summary
Complexity:Easy
Serves:6
Category:Vegetables
Meal:Welcome Fall Dinner (Quick Meals Planner)
4ozolive oil, divided
1mediumeggplant
2smallsquash. yellow
2mediumzucchini
1largeonion, yellow ,quartered
2clovesgarlic, chopped
115 oz cantomatoes, diced
1tspherbs de provence
1pinchsalt and pepper to taste
1tspbasil, fresh chopped
 

Peel the eggplant and slice into large dice. Place 2 Tb of oil in a pan and heat; add the eggplant and cook until light brown. Remove eggplant from pan and add in 2 Tb of oil. Cut zucchini and yellow squash into large dice, and add to pan along with the onion and garlic. Cook for 5 minutes, add in the diced tomato, herbs de province, and eggplant and simmer until just tender, about 10 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste. Top with fresh basil.

Heritage Tomato Salad

Recipe Summary
Complexity:Easy
Serves:4
Category:Salad
Meal:Welcome Fall Dinner (Quick Meals Planner)
1lbheritage tomato
2Tbcilantro
2Tboil, olive
0.5mediumlemon, juice of
0.25cupcheese, feta, crumbled
1clovesgarlic, minced
0.5tsppepper, fresh cracked
1tspsalt, kosher
 

Cut tomatoes into bite size wedges. Place in bowl, add remaining ingredients, toss, let rest for 10 minutes and serve.

Roasted Figs with Goat Cheese and Honey

Recipe Summary
Complexity:Easy
Serves:4
Category:Appetizer
Meal:Welcome Fall Dinner (Quick Meals Planner)
8mediumfigs, fresh
2ozcheese, goat
2Tbhoney
 

Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper; pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Cut figs lengthwise in half. Place on cookie sheet cut-side down and bake in oven for 5-7 minutes, until soft. Remove from cookie sheet, plate cooked-side up, dab on a dollop of goat cheese, and drizzle with honey.