Indulge in a culinary journey with our delectable Roast Chicken with Ratatouille, a harmonious blend of flavors and textures that will tantalize your taste buds. This classic French dish features a tender, succulent chicken roasted to perfection, accompanied by a vibrant medley of stewed vegetables. The ratatouille, a Provençal specialty, bursts with the freshness of eggplant, zucchini, bell peppers, and tomatoes, all simmered in a fragrant tomato sauce. This article presents two variations of this beloved dish: a traditional version that embodies the rustic charm of French cuisine and a modern interpretation that adds a touch of culinary innovation.
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ROASTED CHICKEN BREASTS WITH RATATOUILLE
Serve this Roasted Chicken Breasts with Ratatouille with crusty bread to sop up the juices.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Ingredients Meat & Poultry Chicken Chicken Breast Recipes
Time 1h
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees with rack in upper third. In a large straight-sided ovenproof skillet, heat 1/4 cup oil over medium-high. Add eggplant and cook, stirring frequently, until just beginning to brown, about 4 minutes. Add zucchini, garlic, and remaining 1 tablespoon oil. Cook, stirring, until garlic is fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in tomatoes and thyme; season with salt and pepper.
- Season chicken on both sides with salt and pepper and rub with oil. Add to skillet, skin-side up, and roast in oven until chicken is cooked through, 25 to 30 minutes. Turn oven to broil and continue to cook until skin is golden brown and juices are bubbly, 1 to 2 minutes more. Let rest 10 minutes before serving.
ROASTED RATATOUILLE CHICKEN
A classic chicken recipe that will keep the crowds coming back for more
Provided by Good Food team
Categories Dinner, Main course, Supper
Time 50m
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Lay all the vegetables and the tomatoes in a shallow roasting tin. Pour over the olive oil and give everything a good mix round until well coated (hands are easiest for this).
- Put the chicken breasts, skin side up, on top of the vegetables and tuck in some rosemary sprigs, if using. Season everything with salt and black pepper and drizzle a little oil over the chicken. Roast for about 35 mins until the vegetables are soft and the chicken is golden. Drizzle with oil before serving.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 318 calories, Fat 14 grams fat, SaturatedFat 2 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 13 grams carbohydrates, Fiber 4 grams fiber, Protein 37 grams protein, Sodium 0.25 milligram of sodium
CHICKEN RATATOUILLE
This French dish uses loads of Mediterranean vegetables and is a perfect way to use up the zucchini flooding your garden! We like to add chicken to ours to make it a whole meal, and we usually serve it over rice. We usually do half a breast per person. This is our family's version, so it doesn't have the eggplant or the fresh tomatoes that you see in most traditional ratatouille recipes (maybe when the kids grow up a little?), but this recipe did get the kids to start eating zucchini and mushrooms, which we never thought would happen!
Provided by Sarah d'
Categories Meat and Poultry Recipes Chicken Chicken Breast Recipes
Time 49m
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken and onion; saute until chicken is still slightly pink in the center, 3 to 5 minutes. Add yellow squash, green zucchini, red bell pepper, and mushrooms. Cook and stir until slightly softened, about 4 minutes. Add garlic; cook, stirring frequently, until fragrant, about 3 minutes more.
- Pour chicken stock into skillet and add tomato paste. Stir in herbes de Provence, cumin, oregano, and celery salt. Stir well. Continue to cook and stir, adding more liquid if necessary, until vegetables are cooked to your preference, 4 to 8 minutes more. Season with salt and pepper.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 359.8 calories, Carbohydrate 17.4 g, Cholesterol 109.9 mg, Fat 12.2 g, Fiber 4.8 g, Protein 46.1 g, SaturatedFat 2.3 g, Sodium 1388.7 mg, Sugar 8.3 g
ROASTED VEGGIE RATATOUILLE (FRANCE)
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- Put the eggplant, zucchini, squash, and tomatoes in 1 layer on a baking sheet or baking sheets, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle generously with salt. Roast until the vegetables are soft and pliable, about 20 to 30 minutes, turning them halfway through the cooking. Remove from the oven and allow to cool. When cool enough to handle transfer them to a cutting board and cut them into 1/2-inch pieces.
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat and coat the bottom with olive oil. When the oil is hot, add the onion, crushed red pepper and season with salt, to taste. Saute until the onions are soft, about 5 minutes. Add the peppers and season again with salt, if needed. Cook until the peppers are soft, about 5 to 10 minutes.
- Add the roasted vegetables to the pan along with the vinegar, marjoram, and thyme. Toss well to coat and add 2 to 3 more tablespoons olive oil, if needed. Taste to check the seasoning and transfer to a serving platter or bowl. Voila!
CHICKEN WITH RATATOUILLE
Provided by Marian Burros
Categories dinner, main course
Time 35m
Yield 2 or 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Wash and dry chicken breasts. Sprinkle with pepper.
- Heat oil in skillet and saute chicken over medium heat until breasts are browned on both sides.
- Spread half of the ratatouille on the bottom of two shallow baking dishes; top with chicken breasts. Top breasts with remaining ratatouille, covering well. Sprinkle with cheese.
- Wrap dishes well with double thickness of aluminum foil and freeze or refrigerate.
- To serve, defrost if frozen. If serving 4, transfer ratatouille and chicken to one shallow baking dish and cook, covered, on top of the stove over medium-low heat for 20 to 25 minutes. (If only 2 servings are desired, cook in original baking dish.) If desired, run dish under broiler to brown cheese.
- While chicken is cooking, cook macaroni according to package directions.
RATATOUILLE
In this classic Provençal dish, summer vegetables, like eggplant, onions, peppers, tomatoes and zucchini, are covered in olive oil and roasted separately, then all together, until they become a soft, harmonious stew. This recipe calls for seeding and peeling the tomatoes, which is a bit of work. But it's worth it for the intensity of flavor and the velvety texture. Ratatouille takes some time to make, and tastes better the next day, so plan ahead. The upside is that it's a perfect make-ahead dish for a party. You can store it in the refrigerator for up to 5 days, then gently reheat it, or bring it to room temperature before serving. This recipe is part of The New Essentials of French Cooking, a guide to definitive dishes every modern cook should master. Buy the book.
Provided by Melissa Clark
Categories dinner, lunch, soups and stews, main course, side dish
Time 3h
Yield 8 to 10 servings
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Prepare the vegetables: Smash and peel 3 garlic cloves, reserving the 4th. Halve onions through their roots, and slice halves into 1/4-inch-thick pieces. Slice zucchini into 1/4-inch-thick rounds. Cut eggplant into 1-inch cubes or spears. Seed peppers, and cut them into 1/4-inch-thick strips.
- Spread each vegetable on a separate rimmed baking sheet (use extra sheets as necessary). Add the 3 cloves of smashed garlic to the onion pan. Add 1 sprig rosemary and 2 sprigs thyme to each of the pepper, eggplant and zucchini pans. Sprinkle salt lightly over vegetables. Drizzle 3 tablespoons olive oil on each of the pans.
- Place all the pans in the oven (or work in batches if they don't fit at once). Cook until vegetables are very tender and lightly browned at the edges. This will take about 35 to 40 minutes for the peppers (their skins should shrivel), 40 to 45 minutes for the eggplant and zucchini (the eggplant should crisp slightly and the zucchini should be well cooked, so let them go 3 to 5 minutes longer than you normally might), and 60 to 65 minutes for the onions. Don't worry about the vegetables being pretty; they will meld into the ratatouille. Shake or stir the pans every 15 to 20 minutes or so, especially the onions.
- In the meantime, prepare the tomatoes: Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add tomatoes and blanch until the skins split, about 10 seconds. Use a slotted spoon to quickly transfer the tomatoes to a bowl filled with ice water.
- Using a paring knife, peel the cooled tomatoes (the skins should slip right off). Halve tomatoes across their equators. Set a sieve over a bowl. Working over the bowl, use your fingers to seed the tomatoes, letting the seeds catch in the sieve and the juice run into the bowl. Discard seeds but save juices. Dice tomatoes and add to the reserved juices in bowl.
- Finely grate or mince remaining garlic clove. Add garlic to tomatoes along with bay leaves and a large pinch of salt. Set aside.
- Once vegetables are done cooking, combine them on one baking sheet or a large shallow baking dish and add ingredients from tomato bowl. Toss well. Vegetables will be stacked, and that's O.K. Cover generously with olive oil, using remaining ¼ cup oil or more, and sprinkle with salt. Everything should have a good coat of oil, but should not be drowning in it. Cook at least 1 hour, stirring every 15 to 20 minutes, until vegetables are very tender and imbued with juices and oil. Add salt and pepper to taste, then serve warm, or let cool.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 262, UnsaturatedFat 18 grams, Carbohydrate 15 grams, Fat 22 grams, Fiber 6 grams, Protein 3 grams, SaturatedFat 3 grams, Sodium 361 milligrams, Sugar 9 grams
ROSEMARY CHICKEN WITH OVEN-ROASTED RATATOUILLE
You can't beat this low-fat, one-pot recipe for an easy meal, bursting with summer colour and flavour
Provided by Good Food team
Categories Dinner, Main course
Time 1h
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. In a large roasting tin, toss together the aubergine, courgettes and peppers with half the chopped rosemary, half the garlic, 2 tbsp oil and some seasoning. Spread out the vegetables in an even layer, then roast in the oven for 20 mins.
- Meanwhile, mix remaining rosemary, garlic and oil together. Slash each of the chicken breasts 4-5 times with a sharp knife, brush over the flavoured oil, season and chill for 15 mins.
- After veg have cooked for 20 mins, stir in the tomatoes. Make spaces in the roasting tin and nestle the chicken breasts amongst the vegetables. Place a rosemary sprig on top of each chicken breast. Return the tin to the oven for 18-20 mins, until the chicken is cooked through and the vegetables are lightly caramelised. Serve with some new potatoes, if you like.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 288 calories, Fat 11 grams fat, SaturatedFat 2 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 11 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 10 grams sugar, Fiber 5 grams fiber, Protein 37 grams protein, Sodium 0.25 milligram of sodium
Tips:
- Mise en Place: Before starting to cook, make sure you have all the ingredients and equipment you need. This will help you stay organized and prevent any scrambling later on.
- Season Generously: Don't be shy with the herbs and spices. Seasoning your chicken and vegetables well will add depth of flavor to the dish.
- Use a Heavy-Bottomed Pan: A heavy-bottomed pan will help to evenly distribute heat and prevent the vegetables from sticking.
- Don't Crowd the Pan: When roasting the vegetables, make sure not to overcrowd the pan. This will prevent them from cooking evenly.
- Roast the Chicken and Vegetables Separately: This will help to ensure that the chicken is cooked through without overcooking the vegetables.
- Let the Chicken Rest: Once the chicken is cooked, let it rest for a few minutes before carving. This will help the juices to redistribute throughout the meat.
Conclusion:
This roast chicken with ratatouille is a delicious and easy-to-make dish that is perfect for a weeknight meal. The chicken is juicy and flavorful, while the vegetables are tender and packed with flavor. This dish is sure to please everyone at the table.
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