Quick Meals Planner: Garlicy Good
Chicken Breasts with Garlic Butter | Fingerling Potato and Green Bean Salad
Chicken Breasts with Garlic Butter
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 4 |
| Category: | Chicken Entrée |
| Meal: | Garlicy Good (Quick Meals Planner) |
| 4 | Tb | butter, salted |
| 1 | tsp | cilantro |
| 1 | cloves | garlic, minced |
| 4 | medium | chicken , breast, boned with skin on |
| 1 | Tb | oil, olive |
| 1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
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Allow butter to soften; mince garlic and cilantro and blend into the softened butter. Place the butter in plastic wrap, roll into a log and set in the refrigerator to firm up. Cut a pouch into the chicken breast on a diagonal about 11/2 inches wide and 11/ inches 'deep. Stuff a Tb of the butter into each pouch. Pour a little of the olive oil over the breasts and salt and pepper them to taste. Heat grill to high temperature then cook the breast 10 -15 minutes, until juices run clear.
Note: garlic butter is also great on steaks and burgers.
Fingerling Potato and Green Bean Salad
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 12 |
| Category: | Salad |
| Meal: | Garlicy Good (Quick Meals Planner) |
| 2 | lb | potatoes, fingerling |
| 1 | lb | beans, green |
| 3 | Tb | oil, olive |
| 1 | tsp | lemon zest, finely chopped |
| 0.25 | cup | parsley, flat leaf |
| 1 | tsp | salt, table |
| 0.5 | tsp | pepper, fresh cracked |
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Scrub fingerling potatoes to remove all dirt. Boil in salted water until tender, drain and cool. Cook trimmed fresh green beans in salted water 3- 5 minutes until crisp tender then drain. Whisk together lemon zest, olive oil, salt, pepper and chopped fresh parsley. Toss together with potatoes and beans. Serve at room temperature or cold.
Hint: You may also add any chopped herbs you desire, such as rosemary, thyme, tarragon, etc;
