These Feta and Blackberry Rooster Breasts look and style fancy, however come collectively simply for a terrific weeknight dinner possibility. My husband completely gushed about this recipe and advised everybody on his work staff they should make it, so I’d say it was a giant hit in our home! Did I particularly title this recipe Feta-And-Blackberry Rooster Breasts in order that we will name it FAB hen? Who’s to say? It is fairly fabulous although.
The hen breasts are savory and cooked completely on the stovetop with salty, tangy, creamy Feta cheese, and the evenly candy blackberry compote pairs with it completely. You may serve the blackberry compote on the aspect like cranberry sauce or spoon it excessive! Higher nonetheless, every of those Feta and Blackberry Rooster Breasts are simply 355 energy, or 5 WW Factors on Weight Watchers (or 6 WW Factors if following the diabetic Weight Watchers plan). To view and observe this recipe within the WW app, click on right here!
Recipe Notes
- Serve: This hen pairs effectively with a wide range of completely different sides! I served it with Ben’s Unique Lengthy Grain and Wild Rice within the pictures, however it could even be nice with roasted greens, stovetop inexperienced beans, sauteed spinach, mashed or roasted potatoes, or a aspect salad.
- Feta: I used crumbled Feta on this recipe and I feel the saltiness and tanginess paired completely with the candy blackberry compote. When you don’t have Feta available, I feel crumbled goat cheese would even be scrumptious!
- Blackberries: I used Driscoll’s “Sweetest Batch” blackberries, that are my favourite, however any blackberries will do splendidly! The unique recipe I tailored this from used recent figs, so you might positively attempt different fruits if blackberries aren’t accessible to you. I feel pears may be a enjoyable and attractive different.
- Garlic: You’re not going to prepare dinner the garlic on this recipe, it’s simply getting used to taste the hen earlier than cooking. I positively advocate utilizing recent garlic cloves and smashing them with the flat aspect of your knife. Be sure that to therapeutic massage them into the hen breasts earlier than permitting them to take a seat collectively within the fridge.
- Herbs: I positively suppose the recent rosemary and thyme are value it for this recipe! They supply a lot taste to the hen and compote. Nevertheless, in the event you resolve to make use of dried herbs, simply bear in mind to make use of about 1/3 as a lot because the recipe requires in order to not overwhelm the dish.
- Rooster Cutlets: You’ll need your hen cutlets to be about ½ inch thick and of even thickness for this recipe in order that they prepare dinner evenly. You are able to do this by pounding your 6 ounce hen breasts with a meat mallet till the specified thickness is reached. Alternatively, in the event you’re beginning with huge, thick hen breasts, you possibly can slice them horizontally to get a thinner 6 ounce cutlet.
Reducing Up Rooster Breasts
I usually purchase a giant pack of boneless, skinless hen breasts on the retailer after which use kitchen shears to trim them all the way down to make 5-6 oz cutlets to make use of in recipes. All the things I minimize off to make the cutlets will get minimize into chunks to make hen bites, corresponding to my Barbecue Rubbed Rooster Bites, Lemon Pepper Rooster Bites, or Blackened Rooster Bites. That approach, I all the time have some cutlets and a few hen bites available! Shopping for the majority packs of hen breasts is cost-effective, and chopping them into cutlets and bites ensured I’ve what I would like available after I go to make a recipe. I discover that kitchen shears make this activity go faster and simpler than utilizing a knife, so I extremely advocate utilizing shears like these (affiliate hyperlink).
Extra Tasty Lightened-Up Rooster Recipes
Searching for extra tasty, lightened up hen recipes like these Feta and Blackberry Rooster Breasts? Try my Blackened Rooster with Avocado Corn Topping, Mexican Road Corn Rooster, Tacky Broccoli Stuffed Rooster, Lemon Pepper Rooster Bites, Crispy Onion Dip Rooster, Nashville Sizzling Rooster Bites, Crispy Rooster Parmesan, Apple and Brie Stuffed Rooster, Maple Dijon Rooster and Squash Skillet, Strawberry Balsamic Grilled Rooster, Blackened Rooster Bites, Ricotta Stuffed Rooster Bake, Cream Cheese and Herb Stuffed Rooster, Tuscan Olive Rooster, Pimento Cheese Stuffed Rooster, Cream Cheese Stuffed All the things Rooster, and lots of extra within the Rooster part of my recipe index!
Feta and Blackberry Rooster Breasts
These Feta and Blackberry Rooster Breasts style fancy, however come collectively simply for a scrumptious weeknight meal!
- 4 (6 oz every) skinny hen breast cutlets, (in the event you purchase giant breasts, trim them to six ounces every and pound them ½” skinny)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 2 teaspoons finely chopped recent rosemary leaves
- 2 giant garlic cloves, peeled and smashed underneath the flat aspect of a knife
- 5 teaspoons olive oil, divided
- 2 oz crumbled Feta cheese
- ¾ teaspoon recent thyme leaves, divided
- ½ cup crimson wine
- 1 ½ cups recent blackberries
- 2 teaspoons honey
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Sprinkle each side of the pounded skinny hen cutlets with the salt and pepper and place them in a mixing bowl. Add the chopped Rosemary, smashed garlic cloves, and a tablespoon of the olive oil. Utilizing clear fingers, combine collectively and therapeutic massage the garlic, oil, and rosemary into the hen cutlets. Cowl the bowl and refrigerate for 30-60 minutes. As soon as the refrigeration time has handed, discard the smashed garlic clove items.
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Drizzle the remaining two teaspoons of olive oil into a big sauté pan and produce over medium-high warmth. When the oil is sizzling, lay the hen breasts in a single layer within the pan. Cook dinner for 4-5 minutes till golden on the underside. Flip the breasts and sprinkle the crumbled Feta cheese onto the highest (cooked aspect) of every breast and comply with by sprinkling on ½ teaspoon (whole) of the thyme leaves. Cook dinner for one more 4-5 minutes till the hen is cooked via. Take away the hen to a aspect plate and canopy to maintain heat.
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Add the wine to the pan and fire up any leftover bites from the pan. The wine will probably begin to boil nearly instantly. Cut back the warmth to medium and let the wine boil till lowered by half (ought to solely take a pair minutes). Add the blackberries, honey, and remaining ¼ teaspoon of thyme leaves and stir to mix with the wine. Cook dinner for about 3 minutes, utilizing a picket spoon to stir and evenly smash the berries each minute or so to make a smashed blackberry compote (I like to go away a number of complete for texture).
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Serve every Feta-topped hen breast with 2 ½ tablespoons of blackberry compote, both on the aspect or spooned excessive.
WW Factors per (1 hen breast + 2 ½ tablespoons compote) serving: 5* (SP calculated utilizing the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
*Every serving is 6 WW Factors if following the diabetic Weight Watchers Plan.
Vitamin Info per (1 hen breast + 2 ½ tablespoons compote) serving:
355 energy, 10 g carbs, 6 g sugars, 13 g fats, 4 g saturated fats, 41 g protein, 3 g fiber, 243 mg sodium (from myfitnesspal.com)
Weight Watchers Factors Plus:
8 per (1 hen breast + 2 ½ tablespoons compote) serving (PP calculated utilizing a Weight Watchers PointsPlus calculator and the diet data under)
Tailored from NYT Cooking
