Chicken Mozzarella with Homemade Veggie Sauce

This is a delicious, easy-to-cook meal for two or three. Prep time is about 25 minutes and cooking is 1 hour, 15 minutes. A great, healthy weekend dinner if you just want to relax.

Ingredients Needed:

  • 2 or 3 medium-sized tomatoes
  • 2 tablespoons of chopped garlic
  • 1 zuchinni
  • 1 bell pepper (any size)
  • 1 cup of chopped onions
  • 1 cup of chopped celery
  • 2 chicken breasts
  • Mozzarella Cheese

Tomatoes and veggies fresh out of the oven, before adding chicken

1. Chop zuccinni, onions, celery and pepper.  Place in lightly greased baking dish.  Add a tablespoon of chopped sun-dried tomatoes if wanted.

2. Halve the tomatoes, stuff them with garlic.

3. Place the halves, face down in the baking dish.  Bake at 450 F for 50 minutes

4. After 50 minutes, take the baking dish out, peel the skin off the tomatoes.  Mix the tomatoes in with the other vegetables. 

5. Place the chicken breasts in the baking dish and cover with sauce

6. Add 1/2 to 1 cup of mozzarella cheese over the chicken and sauce

7. Bake at 450 F for 25 minutes.

Serve with pasta or rice.  This recipe can also be made vegetarian by replacing the chicken with eggplant (readjust cooking time for them).  It can also be used alone as a vegan sauce (I suggest baking the tomatoes for an additional 7-10 minutes in this case).

About Cynthia Cheng Mintz


Cynthia Cheng Mintz is the founder and webitor-in-chief of this site and the petite-focused site, Shorty Stories. She has also written for other publications including the Toronto Star and has blogged for The Huffington Post. Her first novel, Aspirations, was published in 2007. Outside of writing, Cynthia researches and advises philanthropic ideas for family funds and foundations and also volunteers.

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