Chicken breast with olive, sage and walnuts

By: Lucy Bee
From: Coconut Oil: Nature’s Perfect Ingredient
Serves: 4

This dish is quick to whip up after a long day at work, and tastes amazing – I love the combination of flavours, from the salty olives to the sweetness of the sun-dried tomatoes. Feel free to use different nuts, such as hazelnuts, in the stuffing, which works equally well with fish as with chicken. If you have any of the stuffing mixture left over, it will keep for up to one week when kept in the fridge.

Ingredients

Quantity	Ingredient
4	boneless and skinless chicken breasts
100g	black kalamata pitted olives
1	garlic clove, crushed
handful	fresh sage leaves
75g	walnuts or pecans
10g	lucy bee coconut oil
a little	lucy bee coconut oil, melted, to drizzle
70g	sun-dried tomatoes

For the topping

Quantity	Ingredient
2 slices	gluten-free bread
handful	parsley leaves
20g	parmesan

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a baking tray with baking parchment.
Cut a slit along the side of each chicken breast to form a pocket. Blitz the remaining ingredients together in a food processor, then stuff into the chicken pockets and transfer to the lined tray.
To make the topping, blitz the ingredients together in a food processor. Sprinkle over the chicken breasts, drizzle with a little melted coconut oil, then cook in the oven for 20–25 minutes, until cooked through.
Serve with Roasted Sweet Potato Wedges and seasonal vegetables.

Tip

One of my most used kitchen gadgets is a good meat thermometer, which means you can wave good-bye to dry, over-cooked chicken. It also works a treat if you worry about under-cooking, too. Chicken is cooked when the centre of the thickest piece reaches 74°C. It is best to cook meat from room temperature rather than straight from the fridge, but don’t let it sit out for too long – 15–20 minutes will do.

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