Chicken cutlets with tomatoes and capers – recipe from Apples with Jam cookbook

The recipes are well written and easy to follow preceded by headnotes. Beautiful colour food and whimsical drawings are displayed throughout the cookbook.

Feature Recipe – Chicken Cutlets with Tomatoes and Capers

The Chicken with tomatoes and capers recipe is on page 40 from the Red chapter.    It is a quick and easy recipe to make using minimal ingredients.  The tomatoes and capers complement each other in this flavourful dish.  The taste reminded me of my Sicilian mother’s cooking where tomatoes and capers were prominent.

Chicken cutlets with tomatoes and capers recipe

Chicken cutlets with tomatoes and capers from Apples for Jam cookbook

 

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This is the kind of dish my mother-in-law has taught me to make — she is such an inspiration. You can add a couple of olives or anything else you think might be appreciated. I like to serve this with some pan-fried potatoes with rosemary and sage or even just my <g class="gr_ gr_87 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace" id="87" data-gr-id="87">favorite</g> bread. Buy chicken cutlets from your butcher, or buy one chicken breast and thinly slice it horizontally into four thin slices.

Author: Tessa Kiros

Cuisine: Italian

Serves: 2

Ingredients

• 5 tbsp olive oil
• 2 garlic cloves, peeled and squashed
• 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
• 4 chicken cutlets
• all purpose flour, for dusting
• 2 sage sprigs
• 4 tbsp white wine or water
• 1½ tbsp drained capers or caperberries in vinegar, rinsed
• 1½ tbsp chopped parsley

Instructions

1. Heat half the oil with the garlic in a large non-stick frying pan. Add the tomatoes with a little salt and fry over high heat until they are just starting to pucker. Lift them out onto a plate.
2. Add the remaining oil to the pan. Lightly dust the chicken with flour on both sides. Put into the pan, add the sage and fry over medium-high heat until the underside is golden. Turn over and season with salt.
3. Put the garlic cloves on top of the chicken if they look in danger of burning. Cook until the new underside is golden brown, then turn the chicken again and season with salt. Add the wine, put the tomatoes on top of the chicken cutlets and throw in the capers and parsley.
4. Let it bubble up and evaporate a bit, then put on the lid and leave for a couple of minutes before serving.

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Apples for Jam is one of my favourite cookbooks and an essential part of my cookbook collection.  Tessa Kiros fantastic talent for storytelling, the recipes, the photos and drawings, and the feel of the cookbook all invoked feelings of nostalgia for my childhood.  It’s an inspiration for families to cook and connect.

Cookbook Details

Apples for Jam: A Colorful Cookbook
Author: Tessa Kiros
Publisher: Andrew McMeel Publishing
Hardcover: 429 pages
ISBN-23: 978-0-7407-6971-9