Chicken with apricots and cherries

CHICKEN WITH APRICOTS AND CHERRIES

A recipe for 8 persons

Ingredients

3 boneless and skinless chicken breasts and one whole chicken leg boneless and skinless. All the meats together should weigh about 1200-1400 g.

200 g. of feta cheese

650 g. large and somewhat sour apricots

800 g. cherries

5 large and long red sweet peppers

4 large dry onions

Salt, pepper, oregano

180 g. of olive oil

A bit of red hot chili pepper that has the size of a water mellow seed

Preparation of materials

Buy the chicken pieces overnight.

If the skin and the bones have not been removed from the chicken parts, remove them yourself.
Open every breast in two fillets.

Rinse the meat with water and let it drain.

Put on both side of each piece of meat a little salt, pepper, oregano and then smear it with oil.

Put all the pieces of the chicken in a pan one next to each other.

Cover the pan with plastic wrap for food.

Place the pan in the refrigerator. 

The next morning, rinse well the apricots, open them in the middle and take off the seeds.

Pour some olive oil over the apricot halves. Mix them with your hand to smear all of them with oil.

Wash the cherries and remove their pits.

Pour some oil on the cherries and mix them with your hand to smear the oil on all of them.

Wash the peppers and cut each one of them lengthwise in four pieces. 

Remove their spores and anoint them with oil.

Peel the onions.

Instructions

Smear with oil a baking Pyrex class with dimensions 26CH34CH6 centimeters.

Place the pieces of the chicken on the glass one next to each other.

Press with your hands the meat pieces to flatten.
Rub the feta cheese with your hands over the meat.

Place the apricots over the meat pieces and between them. Put the apricot pieces next to one another and cover the entire chicken.

Over apricots put the peppers.

Over peppers put cherries.

Cut the onions into thin rings.

Cover the food with rings of onions.

Pour the remaining oil over the rings.

Put some salt and hot pepper in Pyrex glass.

Add 100 ml of water.

You do not need more water than thit because the vegetables release lots of fluids.

Cover the baking dish with nonstick cooking paper and put it in the oven on the lower rack.

Bake for 50 minutes at 250 C degrees.

Do not stir the food.

After the 50 min uncover the Pyrex and continue baking until the color of the food becomes golden.

The food has a lot of sauce. But this sauce is delicious because it is the juice of the vegetables.

The chicken meat under the fruits is very soft, tender and tasty.

The sweet and sour sauce, has pink color and makes the foo looks delicious.