The other day I made dinner for my friend Danielle at my house and it was an absolute favorite. I plan on making this for Riley when I get home from my trip because I know he would love it!
If you like Caprese salads, you’ll love this dinner! I roasted the tomatoes and used marinated chicken, so it was packed with flavor. If you’ve been reading my blog for a bit then you’ll know I’m a lazy cook. Whenever I can take shortcuts and still keep it healthy and tasty, I will! This is one of those dinners that doesn’t require much work, but will taste like you worked really hard.
Caprese Chicken
Time: 40 minutes (only about 5-10 minutes of prep work)
Serves: 2
- 2 Italian marinated chicken breasts. I used the individually packed, pre-marinated breasts by Perdue. You could probably make your own marinade, but I’m a slacker.
- 1/3 cup fresh basil, sliced
- 1/2 pint grape tomatoes (I had some fresh ones from the garden that I threw in with them)
- 6-8 small fresh mozzarella balls, cut in half
- 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic, finely diced
- salt & pepper
1) Pre-heat the oven to 350. Toss the tomatoes with the garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper on a baking sheet. Pop in the oven for about ten minutes.
2) Place marinated chicken breasts on a baking sheet. Put in the oven along with the tomatoes and cook for 20 minutes.
3) Once chicken is cooked through and tomatoes and roasted through, remove both from the oven.
4) In a baking dish (I used 8×8), place the chicken breasts and top with the tomatoes, mozzarella balls, Parmesan cheese, and basil.
Bake for another 10 minutes, or until the cheese is all melted.
Optional: serve with zucchini sauteed in garlic and olive oil.
This dinner was so easy to put together, but something about the roasted tomatoes and the fresh basil just made it even more flavorful!
Workout & Breakfast
Today I woke up around 6:00, which is sleeping in for me! My hotel doesn’t have a great gym, but they let us use the one at the hotel next door, so that’s where I went. They had a cardio room and a weight room with a multipurpose machine, dumbbells, medicine balls and benches. It was pretty much all you could ask for in a hotel gym!
I took way too long to get ready so I ended up only having 30 minutes to work out. I decided to do a 15 minute run on the treadmill, then headed to the weight room. I felt very disorganized during this workout and kept jumping from one thing to the next, but I got in 15 minutes of some circuit exercises.
Free breakfast at the hotel consisted of a toasted English muffin topped with peanut butter and banana slices. Perfect!
I’m off to visit high schools and recruit some prospective students today, so I’ll catch up with you later. Have a great day!
What did you have for breakfast today?
What’s your favorite dinner to make for guests?
This chicken sounds amazing and I love how colorful it is!
The colors definitely added to the appeal!
That looks delicious! And hey, a disorganized workout beats no workout 🙂
True story! It was definitely one of my most random gym sessions, haha.
that looks sooo good! i agree with holly, i love the colors! for breakfast today i had turkey slices and cottage cheese. i was craving protein, and i was out of yogurt, so i made a substitution. your breakfast is a favorite of mine, perhaps that will be tomorrows 🙂
No lie, I used to eat the same English muffin/pb/banana breakfast every day for nearly a year. I’m glad I started branching out, though! Cottage cheese is always a good one to have!
I love caprese salad, but have never tried caprese chicken! This sounds great! I had a green kale smoothie for breakfast!
Ooh green kale smoothie sounds really good. I’ve been craving some green juice this week for some reason (it’s not normally a big craving of mine), so I bet I would have loved your smoothie!
yum!! thanks for sharing the recipe and I love taking short cuts whenever I can get them –> faster dinner, yes please!! I had a fiber one bar and a caramel skim latte for breakfast.
I’m the queen of shortcuts since I’m basically hungry all the time! I love caramel lattes!
breakfast today was oatmeal…what else is new LOL! Well they were steel-cut oats so I guess it was kind of mixing it up!
My Dad is going to love this caprese salad chicken recipe. He is crazy and doesn’t like cheese but the one kind he will eat is mozzarella (will have to leave the parm out) and he LOVES caprese salads!
Doesn’t like cheese?! I’ll never understand, haha. If you make the caprese chicken, I hope he likes it!
I get up at 6 every morning for work so I feel that I would never be able to get up at 5am just to work out before work. Seems crazy.. and now that it is dark out at that hour it is even harder!
I know, I hate how dark it is! It’s especially bad come February when I have to defrost the car before I can even go anywhere!
Wow, this looks amazing! I would love to try it out!
Thanks, you definitely should!
I’m a big caprese fan too!
That’s awesome that you are still able to keep up with exercise while you travel. Even if it is only 30 minutes; that’s all you need to stay healthy!
That’s so true! I can only worry about showing up for a little bit when I’m traveling.
Oh yum, that looks delicious! I need some new recipe ideas, so thank you!!
You’re welcome, hope you try it!
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