Balsamic Chicken With Sweet Flavor

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 5 pieces chicken breasts or 5 pieces chicken thighs or 5 pieces turkey breast or 5 pieces turkey thighs, deboned,washed and dried with towel
• 3 cloves garlic
• 1/4 medium yellow onion, chopped to large cubes about 2/3-1 cup cubed
• 1 medium tomato, cubed or 1 cup sun-dried tomatoes (fresh)
• 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
• 2 tablespoons salt or 1/2 cup tamari or 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 1/2-1 cup wine (if you use soy-sauce 1/2cup, if you use salt 1cup.) or 1/2-1 cup chardonnay wine (if you use soy-sauce 1/2cup, if you use salt 1cup.)
• 1/2 cup maple syrup (yes thats right maple syrup)
• 3 tablespoons olive oil (or other oil of choice) or 3 tablespoons peanut oil (or other oil of choice)
• 1 tablespoon sesame oil (its a strong flavor) (optional)

Recipe

• 1 place above ingredients except meat, oil, wine, tomato, and maple syrup in a food processor or blender.
• 2 start blender with cover, on low speed wait five-ten seconds or so, slowly add a portion of the wine.
• 3 you want the onion and garlic to chop but not to puree.
• 4 adding too much liquid at once will just stir it around.
• 5 stop blender, add â½ of the total amount of tomatoes, start blender on slow speed for ten seconds or so, shorter for processor.
• 6 just to whack them around not to puree them.
• 7 if you have wine left over from the measurement above its ok.
• 8 pour the mixture from the blender into bowl.
• 9 add maple syrup, oils, and part of the wine.
• 10 stir.
• 11 i haven't a measurement for the wine as this is to taste.
• 12 you do not want the other ingredients floating in wine, just part of the combined.
• 13 place medallions in an oven glass so that they can lay flat and have a little room round them for the marinate pour over the meat, turn them over a few times so the liquid can coat all the chicken.
• 14 another way to accomplish i like is to place 1/3-1/2 of the medallions in a 2 or 3 large ziplock adding the liquid carefully remove extra air, zip them shut.
• 15 carefully over your sink, just in case there is a leak, rotate the bags this will help to coat them.
• 16 if time allows place the meat mixture either in the bags on a plate, or the oven glass covered in refrig, for 1 hour.
• 17 otherwise precede to baking instructions below tightly cover with aluminum foil place in preheated 375 oven, for about 45min.
• 18 this will varies based on the thickness of the meat.
• 19 remove aluminum foil cover, turn medallions over add remaining tomatoes some on top of meat, and bake for a additional 15min 20min uncovered till chicken appears, still moist rather caramel in color.
• 20 to serve place one serving on plate cover with tomato and marinate from the baking dish.
• 21 also meat can be cubed and placed on salads. or with pasta noodles. conserving the baked marinate for a dressing.
• 22 we never have leftovers of this very long no matter what you do with them at this point.
• 23 enjoy.