Creamy Olive Chicken Bake

Creamy Olive Chicken Bake

from talkingmeals.com
Main Course
40 min

This Creamy Olive Chicken Bake is magnificently thick and creamy and infused with garlic flavor and nuttiness from Parmesan Cheese. The best part; however, is the salty and briny flavor kick from the green olives with a little sweetness from the pimiento.  Baked in the oven, this Creamy Olive Chicken is super simple and takes a boring chicken breast over the top with flavor!!

Ingredients

  • 4chicken breasts, skinless, bonelesss (6oz each)
  • 1 tspextra virgin olive oil
  • 1 tspsalt (as needed to season each chicken breast)
  • 1 tspfresh ground black pepper (as needed to season each chicken breast)
  • ½ cupmayonnaise
  • 1garlic clove
  • ¼ cupparmesan cheese, grated
  • ½ cupgreen olives with pimiento (chopped)
  • ½ tspfresh ground black pepper
  • 4scallions
  • 2tbls water

Directions

Prep ahead step for creamy olive chicken

  1. 1

    Rough chop 1/2 cup green olives stuffed with pimiento.

  2. 2

    Finely slice the scallions.  Mince the garlic.

  3. 3

    In a medium mixing bowl, add the mayonnaise, garlic, Parmesan cheese, olives, water, scallions, and ground pepper.  Mix to combine.

  4. 4

    Once the sauce is mixed, you can store it in the fridge until you are ready to cook.

Cook

  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 400 F degrees.

  2. 2

    Place the chicken breasts in a casserole dish coated with extra virgin olive oil.  Season with salt and pepper on both sides.  Then cook in the oven for 15 minutes.

  3. 3

    After the chicken has cooked for 15 minutes, remove the chicken and spread the olive sauce all over the top. 

  4. 4

    Put the chicken back in the 400 degree oven for another 10-15 minutes, until the internal temp of the chicken reaches 165 F.

  5. 5

    Let the chicken rest for 5 minutes before serving.  Serve with rice or quinoa and vegetables.  Enjoy!