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This recipe is one pot, fast, foolproof and delicious. If you have tomatoes and chicken breast, you are good to go!
Why I Think You’ll Love This Recipe
- This is an excellent comfort food. Fresh tomatoes and chicken = perfection!
- It’s very easy to make. Simply dredge the chicken breast through spices and flour, cook it in oil and butter then add in the tomatoes. Boom! Dinner.
Smashed Tomato Chicken is Delicious!
If you don’t like tomatoes, or even if you just like tomatoes, close this recipe and walk away. Pour yourself a glass of wine and peruse my other recipes, because this is definitely a dinner dish for the tomato lover.
I threw this together when I had an abundance of grape tomatoes and chicken breast to use up quickly.
It’s very easy. Just dredge the chicken breast through spices and flour, cook it in the oil and butter, then add in the tomatoes.
You can use wine or chicken broth
You can use either a white wine or chicken broth in this recipe. Personally, I think it tastes best with a nice dry white but you can use whatever appeals the most!
How to Make this Recipe
As mentioned above, this is an easy recipe. The steps are as follows:
- Using the flour and seasonings, dredge the chicken and then shake off the excess.
- Cook the chicken in the butter and olive oil then add tomatoes and garlic and cook until the tomatoes are soft and warm.
- Once those tomatoes are soft and cooked, smash the tomatoes, add in the white wine and spices, continue cooking until ready, then serve.
What Kind of Tomatoes to Use?
You can use either grape or cherry tomatoes in this. Both types work quite well with the recipe but in theory, you COULD use standard tomatoes although I would expect it would be quite a bit messier, and I personally haven’t tried it this way so I can’t speak to how well it would work out.
Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks
- Serve this plain if you are looking to cut carbs or serve it with some rice to soak up that delightful sauce.
- SUGAR is the key to making a tomato-based dish less acidic. Add in a little bit of white sugar to taste until the sauce is more balanced.
Other Tomato Recipes:
Happy cooking everyone! Let me know your thoughts by rating the recipe if you don’t mind. The feedback helps us improve!
Love,
Karlynn
Smashed Tomato Chicken
Ingredients
- 2-3 medium boneless skinless chicken breasts pounded thinner
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ⅓ teaspoon pepper
- ⅓ teaspoon flour
- ½ teaspoon paprika
- ½ teaspoon oregano
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 tablespoons butter
Sauce:
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- ½ teaspoon paprika
- ½ teaspoon oregano
- Salt and pepper
- 3 cups cherry or grape tomatoes
- ⅓ cup dry white wine or chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon white sugar optional taste your sauce first
Instructions
- Combine flour and seasonings. Dredge both sides of the chicken in the flour, shaking off the excess. If you want whole chicken breasts, use 4, if you want smaller portions, butterfly two breasts into four pieces, the choice is yours.
- Place olive oil and butter into a large skillet and heat up. Place chicken breasts in skillet and start cooking.
- Once the chicken is almost completely cooked, add in the tomatoes and garlic.
- Cook on medium-high until the tomatoes are soft and warm, charring is ok if it happens!
- Using a potato masher, smash around 2/3 of the tomatoes slighty to release their juices.
- Add in the white wine and spices, making sure to scrape any browned bits off the bottom of the pan and into the sauce.
- Cook further until the chicken is done and taste : if needed add in white sugar to cut the acidity. You may not need this depending on the wine that you used.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Serve over rice or plain.
Old Fat Guy says
Very nice looking chicken recipe!
The Old Fat Guy
The Kitchen Magpie says
Oh awesome! Glad you liked it!
Sabine Dumdei Vanderkley says
Made this last night! Hubby said it was pretty good (which is good because he is super picky) and I loved it! Yum!
Pat Faryna Langridge says
Looks delicious. Going to cook on Sunday.
Sue Money says
Looks yummy. Think I might do this in my slow cooker
Janj An says
I might have to make it this weekend now.. mmmm!
The Kitchen Magpie says
That sounds amazing!!
Janj An says
That looks fantastic!! I think my mom used to make this but with sunny side up eggs instead of chicken as a meatless monday dish
The Kitchen Magpie says
Let me know what you think! We really enjoyed it!
Sabine Dumdei Vanderkley says
i think i might try this on Monday night! thanks!