This is a nice warm salad that’s fresh and seasonal. I usually don’t make warm salads but this dish was a reminder of how good they are and I think I will be doing this again soon! It’s great as a side dish or main meal.
Prep: 20 min
Cook Time: 45 min
Serves: 2-3
Ingredients:
- 2 chicken breasts, fresh
- 5-7 Carrots, sliced in half long ways
- 2-3 Fennel bulbs, quartered
- 1 C. Gnocchi (cooked as you like) I do butter garlic and parsley
- 4 C. Mixed Spring Salad
- 1 Shallot, sliced into 1/4 inch slices, long
- 1 Garlic clove, minced
- 1/8 C. Balsamic (for carrots, shallots, and fennel).
- 1/8 C. Chicken stock (for carrots, shallots, and fennel)
- Salt and Pepper
- 1/8 C. Yuzu (for chicken breasts)
- Balsamic and chicken stock (for chicken breasts) I’m not giving amounts on these so just have the containers available because you will have to eye ball it.
Instructions:
For roasted carrots, fennel, and shallots: Pre heat oven to 425 F. Cut produce and lay out on a large baking dish or pan (It’s helpful to line well with foil) add garlic, then drizzle with:
- 1 Garlic clove, minced
- 1/8 C. Balsamic (for carrots, shallots, and fennel).
- 1/8 C. Chicken stock (for carrots, shallots, and fennel)
- Sprinkle with salt and pepper
Bake covered with foil for 20 and uncovered for 10-20 more min until done.
For Chicken:
- Clean breasts and trim fat.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- In a large skillet heat 1-2 TBS of olive oil on medium high and add breasts.
- This is where you will start with 1/8 C. Yuzu, 1/8 C. Balsamic, and 1/8 C. Stock all equal parts into a measuring cup.
- Add a dash at a time coating the breast it will reduce and get thick.
- Though out the duration of cooking the chicken until done you will keep adding balsamic and stock when it starts to diminish. Make sure your last time you put a bit more in so you have some reduction left to pour on top of salad.
Enjoy and Cheers!
I like all-in-one meals like this. Your roasted fennel and carrots would have been good with the marinated chicken we just had.
Thanks, I love them too! 🙂
Delicious!
Thank you! 🙂
Ooh! I love fennel! It goes with everything! Nice recipe!
Thanks!!! Also thanks for stoping by! 🙂
What a hearty meal you have here! Looks very fresh and full of surprising flavours! 🙂 I think you did a great job putting everything together! Yummyyyy!
Thank you! It’s was def full of flavor! 🙂 Cheers!
I love fennel! This is a great one-pot dish! It looks hearty, yet healthy! I love what looks to be a lot of little crispy bits 🙂 Yum! Debra
I love fennel too! This was one of the best warm salads ever! 🙂
Yum yum yum!! Love the caramelization and the look of the whole dish together:)
Thank you thank you! 🙂
I just love the fennel and the balsamic flavor you have going in within this dish. It just sounds absolutely wonderful
Thank you! They really go quite well together!
Wow!
🙂
Scrumptious – my kind of taste-explosion meal.
🙂 Mandy
Thanks Mandy! I like that term, Taste Explosion! 😉
It’s hard to make brown look good (other than chocolate) but you do a very good job. Great food, great looking plate. 🙂
Thank you so much! 🙂
I’d really enjoy the combination of flavors you’ve put together here. Such a great recipe!
Thank you 🙂 I will be making this again soon! 🙂
I love it!
Thanks! 🙂
I love roasted fennel – it’s absolutely delicious, especially with a bit of lemon juice I find – 2-3 fennel bulbs seems like a huge amount though… maybe your fennel bulbs are a bit smaller than ours?
They are very small, they were from the farmers market here 🙂
Love that salad too, healthy and satisfying, I don’t know what yuzo is? and is it necessary to the recipe or you can do it with out it?
thanks so much.
Thank you! It is not absolutely necessary but will definitely amp up flavor! 🙂 Yuzu is a japanese citrus blend. 🙂 Cheers!
yum! I have to get some yuzu 🙂 I have just passed on an award ….
Thank you Tandy! You will love YUZU! Thank you so much for the award!
Sometime you can read the ingredients, look at the images and all the flavor can be tasted mentally….just like in this post. Awesome job Jen!
I know exactly what you mean, thank you for the great compliment! 🙂
I like your idea of covering the vegetables during the first part of the roasting then uncovering during the second part.
Flavorful dish.
Thank you Norma! I think it helped out a lot with cooking them properly and still getting a nice roasted look!
Jen, I so want to come to your house to live. This looks out of this world and the gnocci surprises. I’m pricing expedia.com for tickets right now… Take Care, BAM
🙂 Wouldn’t it be great to host a giant blogger pot luck!?! I hope all is well! 🙂
I don’t make warm salads that often either but this is one that has so many ingredients I love. I look forward to giving this ago with the fresh fennel that is everywhere now