roasted chicken breast with creamy butternut squash and chilli
Photography by David Loftus

roasted chicken breast with creamy butternut squash and chilli

Make this recipe for one in a snug-fitting baking dish or to save on washing-up, a little tinfoil tray.

Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas 6. Put 1 chicken breast, with its skin left on, in a bowl. Deseed and slice up half a fresh red chilli and add to the bowl with the leaves from a couple of sprigs of fresh marjoram or oregano and a pinch of sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Toss together. Very carefully cut a medium butternut squash into quarters. Remove the seeds and slice one quarter of the squash as finely as you can. Place the chicken breast and flavourings from the bowl into the tray and snugly fit your squash slices around the chicken. Carefully pour a little double cream around the squash (not on the chicken). Season with grated nutmeg and salt and pepper then drizzle with some olive oil and cook in the middle of the oven for 25 to 35 minutes.

Comments

Lorna Whitfield [Visitor]
Sun 13 Jan 2008 @ 11:44
Talk about comfort food! Just the thing for a rainy 'orrible Sunday. Yum yum.

Tom Whitehouse [Visitor]
Fri 14 Mar 2008 @ 18:57
Jamie I'm using your recipe as an example of instructive writing for my lesson plan for year 5 reading comprehension! Sounds lovely too!

Sorin Florea [Visitor]
Mon 17 Mar 2008 @ 16:35
Absolutely fantastic. Must be one of the best chicken I've had 'till now. I love you book "Cook with Jamie".
I plan to try all the 160 recipes in the book. 157 left to go.
Thank you!

jack van [Visitor]
Tue 01 Apr 2008 @ 08:58
YUMMY!

Amy [Visitor]
Wed 16 Apr 2008 @ 05:06
THAT REALLY LOOKS GOOD, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I LOVE THE COLOUR YOU PUT INTO IT, I LOVE COOKING AND SO DOES MY MUM.

rip van winkle [Visitor]
Thu 15 May 2008 @ 18:26
MMMMMmmmmm, butternut squash and nutmeg!
My two favourite ingredients finally combined for the first time!!!
Jamie you are a treat!

Linzi [Visitor]
Tue 20 May 2008 @ 20:02
This recipe is absolutely yummy and soooo quick and easy! If I have no butternut squash, I use sweet potatoes - almost as nice. Thanks Jamie - I can eat well even when I come home exhausted after a 12 hour shift.

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