Title: Roasted Chicken with Kalamata Olives, Onions, & Mushrooms
Categories: Main dish, Chicken, Poultry, Light
Yield: 4 Servings
6 Chicken pieces (2 breast
-halves with wings attached,
-2 drumsticks, and 2 thighs)
1 1/2 ts Salt
1 ts Black pepper
1 tb Oil
10 oz White mushrooms; halved
24 Kalamata olives; pitted
1 Onion; diced
3/4 c White wine
2 ts Fresh thyme; chopped
Season chicken with salt and pepper. Heat oil in a large skillet and
brown chicken well on all sides. Remove chicken to roasting pan.
Roast at 450 F for 20 minutes.
In same skillet, combine mushrooms, olives, onion, and wine. Simmer
until liquid is reduced by half. Add thyme. Add mushroom mixture to
roasting pan.
Rearrange chicken on top of mushrooms and return to oven to bake until
chicken is tender, about 10 minutes longer.
Each serving contains about: 429 calories, 1,358 mg sodium,
121 mg cholesterol, 27 g fat, 7g carbs, 34 g protein, 1.08 g fiber.
Recipe by Sumptuous Santa Barbara;
reprinted in The Birmingham News, 8/21/96
