Chicken with Orange, Spinach and Cherry Tomatoes
A simple recipe that combines vegetable and fruit with chicken. The recipe utilizes baking in foil, which is a great low-fat cooking method that produces wonderfully tender and juicy chicken.
Ingredients
- 4 tbsp minced fresh dill
- 4 tsp grated orange peel
- 3 tsp minced garlic
- ¾ tsp salt
- 4 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 4 skinless boneless chicken breast halves, thinly sliced crosswise
- 4 cups firmly packed torn fresh spinach leaves (about 8 ounces)
Ingredients for 4 servings (1.5 kg) · the original recipe
Method
- 1
Preheat oven to 400°F.
Oven - 2
Place large baking sheet in oven to heat.
Oven - 3
Mix dill, orange peel, garlic and salt in medium bowl. Season with pepper.
- 4
Combine tomatoes, oil and 1 teaspoon dill mixture in small bowl.
- 5
Add chicken to remaining dill mixture in medium bowl and toss to coat.
- 6
Cut 4 sheets of foil each about 20 inches long.
- 7
Arrange 1 cup spinach on 1 sheet of foil.
- 8
Place a quarter of the sliced chicken mixture atop spinach.
- 9
Spoon a quarter of the tomato mixture atop chicken.
- 10
Fold foil over, enclosing contents completely and crimping edges tightly to seal.
- 11
Repeat with remaining 3 foil sheets, forming 4 packets total.
- 12
Arrange foil packets in single layer on heated baking sheet.
Oven - 13
Bake until chicken is just cooked through, about 15 minutes.
Oven - 14
Transfer to plates; let stand 5 minutes.
Recipe from Wikibooks Cookbook, written by Wikibooks contributors. Used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; the ingredient list and method on this page are taken from that page and edited (its notes, tips and variations are not reproduced), and are available under the same licence. The macros, equipment tags and scaling are Ma Kitchen’s own and are not the source’s figures. Ma Kitchen is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wikibooks Cookbook. Copied on 2026-11-12.
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