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Balsamic Chicken

A great E meal served with sweet potatoes or brown rice and non-starchy vegetables. Use a tsp of butter on your carb source to compliment your meal - children can have more butter, to make sure they get adequate amounts of primary fuels. The Balsamic Chicken recipe is part of our "Seven Day Video Menu" and our "As Seen On THM TV" series. You can watch Serene and Pearl make this recipe by tuning into THM TV! Recipe found on pages 324-325 of the original Trim Healthy Mama book and on Page 56 of the Trim Healthy Mama Cookbook!

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Servings: 8
Description

A great E meal served with sweet potatoes or brown rice and non-starchy vegetables. Use a tsp of butter on your carb source to compliment your meal - children can have more butter, to make sure they get adequate amounts of primary fuels. The Balsamic Chicken recipe is part of our "Seven Day Video Menu" and our "As Seen On THM TV" series. You can watch Serene and Pearl make this recipe by tuning into THM TV! Recipe found on pages 324-325 of the original Trim Healthy Mama book and on Page 56 of the Trim Healthy Mama Cookbook!

Ingredients
  • 2 1/2 lbs chicken breasts (or tenderloins; thawed and drained) (enough for your family)
  • 29 oz tomatoes (2-14 1/2 oz cans, diced)
  • 2 large onions (sliced into large strips) (or 16-oz package frozen pearl onions)
  • 6 oz tomato paste
  • 3 splashes balsamic vinegar (or 1/4 cup)
  • 2 tsp TH Super Sweet Blend
  • 1 cup chicken broth (or bone stock; TH Cookbook, pages 495-496) (can use water instead)
  • 1 handful TH Nutrional Yeast
  • 1/2 tsp TH Mineral Salt
  • 1 1/2 Tbs Italian seasoning (fresh or dried)
  • 1 tsp garlic powder (or 3-4 cloves, minced)
  • 1/2 tsp onion powder
  • 1 doonk TH Pure Stevia Extract Powder (1-2 doonks)
  • quinoa (or brown rice; cooked) (enough for your family)
Instructions
  1. 1
    Place family size amount of frozen chicken breasts or tenderloins, single layer, on large baking tray.
  2. 2
    Cover with diced tomatoes and onions.
  3. 3

    Blend 1 (6 oz) can tomato paste with a few generous splashes of balsamic vinegar, 2 tsp TH Sweet Blend or a doonk or 2 of TH Pure Stevia Extract Powder, 1 cup chicken broth/stock or 1 cup water, handful of nutritional yeast, 1 tsp sea salt, and fresh or dried Italian herbs.

  4. 4
    Pour blended sauce mixture on top of chicken and vegetables.
  5. 5
    Bake uncovered at 350 until chicken is tender and sauce is reduced a little, about 45 minutes.
  6. 6
    Serve over E appropriate amounts of quinoa or brown rice.
Note

Recipe Notes

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Serving Ideas – This dish lends itself to E mode perfectly. The chicken, veggies and yummy broth are perfect over a bed of brown rice or quinoa. For S mode, put over any on plan noodles like Not Naughty Noodles or Troodles (page 222, Trim Healthy Mama Cookbook) or Spaghetti Squash Noodles (page 224, Trim Healthy Mama Cookbook) then top with some mozzarella cheese – perfection! To stay in Fuel Pull mode, keep meat portion to 3-4 oz. and wrap chicken in Wonder Wraps or have over Cauli Rice or Not Naughty Rice.

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Electric Pressure Cooker Modifications:

  • Place one can of tomatoes, balsamic vinegar and broth in the liner; stir. Add chicken breasts, onions, seasonings, and second can of tomatoes. Gently stir to combine. Set Instant Pot using the manual button adjust time to 10 minutes. Natural Pressure Release (NPR)
  • This recipe was created and tested using a 6-quart Instant Pot. If you are using a different brand or different sizeelectric pressure cooker, consider modifying the recipe as your results may vary from ours. Example: If you are using an 8-quart, consider adding more liquid as the larger circumference often needs more liquid to come to pressure.

(Community Submission from Carey Sevier using an Instant Pot.)

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FOR FREEZER-TO-CROCK PREP: Label frozen bag of chicken breasts or tenderloins as “Balsamic Chicken – S” with a Sharpie. Pour all other ingredients into another freezer bag. Label the freezer bag with recipe name and put both bags in the freezer. The morning before cooking (24 hours prior), put the chicken and sauce bags in the refrigerator to thaw. Next morning, pour
off any excess fluid from the chicken and place the chicken in the crockpot. Add the sauce.

Read it online: https://trimhealthymama.com/recipe/balsamic-chicken/