Baked Chicken With Grilled Feta And Caramelized Onions

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 1 small onion
• 3 chicken breast fillets
• 1/2 cup feta cheese, drained and crumbled
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 4 tablespoons dried rosemary (or 2 fresh if you are lucky enough to have it fresh)
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 15 black peppercorns
• 10 peppercorns
• 50 g butter
• 4 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 cup very hot water
• 1 chicken stock cube (or use vegetable stock if you have it)
• 2 dashes tabasco sauce
• 1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
• 1 teaspoon soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon sherry wine vinegar (or red wine vinegar)
• 1 teaspoon brown sugar

Recipe

• 1 wash chicken breast fillets and pat dry, cut in half.
• 2 in a small pan heat butter and oil till liquid, set aside.
• 3 take a large, heavy based, frying pan, heat and add 2 tbsp fat.
• 4 fry chicken on a high heat until it has turned from its original rosy colour to on both sides, remove from pan immediately, conserve the fat.
• 5 with a mortar and pestle take the rosemary, the salt, both types of peppercorns and the flour and crush everything together so you have a fine powder with a few sprigs of rosemary remaining, set aside.
• 6 take the hot water and add the stock cube (use stock if you have any left from another day), add tabasco, worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, vinager and sugar set aside.
• 7 heat oven to 350°f and place the remaining fat in an earthenware dish in the oven on a high shelf.
• 8 re-heat the fat in the frying pan and when hot fry the onions on a medium heat until they "relax".
• 9 turn the heat up to high and add 1/4 of the liquid, reduce until there is no liquid left, add another 1/4 of the liquid and repeat the process, finally add the remaining liquid and reduce again until all the liquid has evaporated, leave on a low heat for another 5 minutes, cover and set aside.
• 10 take fried chicken and sprinkle with the flour mixture on one side.
• 11 take the earthenware dish out of the oven and place the dusted side down in the fat, sprinkle the remaining mixture over the chicken.
• 12 bake for 15 minutes (turn halfway).
• 13 take crumbled feta cheese and crumble over the chicken.
• 14 grill until the feta cheese has "set", so that its dry and slightly golden (feta does not melt, so don't sit around waiting for it to melt 'cus you'll get a very dry chicken).
• 15 to serve: re-heat the onions that have been steeping in their juices, and set up 3 pieces of chicken each with a"dollop" of onions in the centre.
• 16 garnish with a sprig of rosemary (if you must garnish things).