New Recipe Challenge: Farmer's Market Chicken

 New Recipe Challenge

     Fresh vegetables are everywhere, especially in the summer.  There is a farmers market less than a mile from our place and they have a wide variety of beautiful veggies.  This recipe can be made with any veggies that your family likes.  Feel free to experiment. 
     My kids like most of the vegetables that they have tried, but can be resistant to trying something new.  The majority of the veggies I used are ones that they are familiar with and will eat:  onion, carrots, green beans.  I also chose 1 new vegetable that I wanted them to try: asparagus.  Other good veggies that would work well in this dish: snow peas, summer squash, zucchini, bell peppers.  Really anything you can pick up at a farmer's market.
     When it comes to the chiken, you can use boneless or bone-in chicken.  You will just need to bump up the cooking time about 10 minutes if you use bone-in chicken.  This recipe is very versatile and is easy to make.

Recipe

Farmer's Market Chicken

4-6 boneless chicken breasts or 1 whole chicken cut up
2 cups carrots, peeled and cut
1 large onion, sliced
2 cups green beans, cut or whole
2 cups asparagus, cut into 2 inch pieces
4-6 cloves garlic, minced
4 T olive oil, divided
1/2 cup white wine or chicken stock
1 T fresh tarragon 
1 T fresh thyme
salt
cracked black pepper

• Heat 2 T oil in a large skillet while you season the chicken pieces with salt and pepper.
• Brown chicken on all sides; then, remove the chicken from the pan.
• Add the rest of the oil along with the onion to the skillet and cook for 3-4 minutes.  Add the garlic and cook 1-2 minutes or until fragrent. 
• Pour in wine(stock) and deglaze the pan.  Add the carrots (or other longer cooking veggies) and chicken to the pan, sprinkle with herbs, and simmer covered for 8-10 minutes (15 minutes for bone-in chicken).
• Add the beans and asparagus (or other quick cooking veggies) and cover for another 5-7 minutes.
• Remove chicken and veggies and arrange on a platter.  Simmer and reduce the sauce for several minutes and pour over the meat and veggies on the platter.
• Serve over rice.

Results

     Mixed results with the kids.  I don't think that either of them really liked the asparagus, but they ate it.  They liked the rest of the dinner and said that they would eat it again.
     The adults really liked dinner and it will definitely find its way back to our dinner table again.

Have a Happy Family Dinner Y'all!