Description

Serve your family a chicken dish full of flavor with a lemon basil sauce, tomatoes and crumbled bacon. For a more filling dish, serve it over pasta or even rice. For a lighter dish, serve it with julienned or spiral zucchini.

Ingredients

• 4 bacon slices, cooked and crumbled
• 1/2 t. cornstarch
• 1/4 t. kosher salt
• 1/4 t. freshly ground black pepper
• 1 1/2 lb. boneless skinless chicken thighs, cut into 1-inch pieces
• 3/4 c. chicken stock/broth
• zest from 1 lemon, about 1 T.
• 1/4 c. freshly squeezed juice from 1 lemon
• 1 T. butter
• 8 large basil leaves, about 2 T. finely sliced
• 1 c. grape or cherry tomatoes, halved
• For serving, choose ONE:
• 3 raw medium-size Italian zucchini, spiralized or julienned
• 8 oz. angel hair pasta, cooked
• 2 c. Jasmine rice, cooked

Steps

1. Heat a large stainless skillet over medium heat; fry bacon; remove to a paper towel lined plate; cool; crumble; set aside.
2. While the bacon is frying, sprinkle the cornstarch, salt and pepper over the cut up chicken.
3. Remove the grease from the skillet, leaving 2 T. in the skillet.