A new and unique chicken dish to bring to the dinner table. Gluten-Free and paleo, this chicken is baked and smothered in black garlic, shishito peppers, and salsa verde.
On a dark and stormy eve, a dish of unique flavors is slowly baked in the oven, not promising success or failure. On this somber day, will a rustic and intriguing dinner be able to be enjoyed? Only time could tell as the clouds covered the sky with a foreboding aura.
You find yourself with some black garlic, fermented to a balsamicy-sweetness. Beautifully fresh shishito peppers, deceivingly some of the mildest peppers out there. A jar of salsa verde, green is the new red, right? And some boring chicken breasts. On such a dreary stormy day, boring chicken is not going to cut it.
Something with a bit more intrigue might lighten the mood. Dinner can either make or break your night. It can cap it off as a success or perpetuate the gloomy sorrow of a dark day. Simply awakening the taste buds seems like a good solution.
While we throw all these ingredients together, wait, and anticipate the outcome, we hope that our moods will be lifted. It’s funny how a good meal enjoyed with good company can make you feel so good, inside and out. Even when the outside is dark and gloomy with a storm on the horizon.
As the smell of dinner begins to flow throughout the house, enticing the nose and stomach, we have a feeling things will turn out alright. It’s an interesting smell, spicy, but subtle and without a doubt warm and comforting. The stormy mood won’t ruin the night after all.
Now as we set the table and prepare for a feast to warm the mind and soul, we have to give a little thanks to the storm clouds that inspired such a tantalizing dish. The not so inviting became just a little more friendly and light. That happens sometimes when we find the light and intrigue that can be uncovered and produced even on the dreariest of days.
Black Garlic Shishito Verde Chicken
Ingredients: (serves 4)
+ 4 Skinless Chicken Breasts
+ 8 Shishito Peppers (halved lengthwise)
+ 4 Cloves of Black Garlic (1 per breast)
+ 12oz Salsa Verde (I used Trader Joe’s Salsa Verde
Directions:
+ Preheat the oven to 350°F.
+ In a greased baking dish, place the 4 cleaned chicken breasts down. Rub and squeeze 1 clove of black garlic on to each breast, leaving the clove pieces on the chicken.
+ Arrange the 16 halves of peppers around and on the chicken. The pour the salsa over everything.
+ Bake in the oven for 40 minutes until cooked.
Finish off the night devouring this unique and full of intrigue chicken dish. Grab a glass of wine, cook up some plantains, and enjoy the feast with someone you love.
So tell me:
+ Have you ever had shishito peppers? I was nervous they would be spicy just by their looks, but Frieda’s assured me they were a 1 out of 10 on the spiciness scale!
+ When it’s a dark and stormy day, what do you like to cook up?
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Looks delicious, Rebecca! Thanks for sharing at Savoring Saturdays!
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This looks amazing! I’m going to give it a try. Thanks for linking up to Funtastic Friday. Hope to see you again this week.
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How creative! This chicken dish looks delectable. Thank you for sharing with us at the Healthy, Happy, Green and Natural Party Blog Hop! All the best, Deborah
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This looks very tasty! I don’t think I’ve ever tried that variety of chile before. Thanks so much for linking up to Awesome Life Friday – I hope you’ll come back again this week! http://rchreviews.blogspot.com
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Stopping by from #MondayMadness. This looks divine. I’m saving it to my recipes.
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Yum, I love garlic! I am always looking for great chicken recipes! Thanks for linking up with me!
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You’ll love this! But this isn’t a “garlicy” dish! Black garlic does not have the same strong taste as normal!
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Great recipe. Thanks for sharing on Real Food Fridays. Pinned & twitted.
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This looks amazing. I’ve never heard or seen shishito peppers before!
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This looks delicious, I’m going to try the sauce with seabass! Thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays x
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O interesting! Thanks friend!
AWESOME recipe! Shishito peppers are one of my favorites, my husband and I always order them if they’re on the menu. And I actually won a mystery basket cook off in my culinary school in which black garlic was the secret ingredient!
Awesome! Haha! Black garlic is such an awesome ingredient! People need to learn to use it more!
You’re so creative!!! Shishito peppers rock my socks off. ROASTED – Mmmmmm, although sometimes they get a little too spicy but I bet with that garlic, they’re magical! 🙂
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I need to try them roasted! Everyone says their heavenly that way!
OMG I love me some Shishito peppers, I actually never tried them before my current boyfriend order these charred beauties and the rest is history. I love sautéing them a little too long in the wok, keeping it simple by adding some salt and pepper does the trick. This recipe looks the sunshine on a cloudy day.
I so want to start cooking with them more! This was my first time and I totally love them!
Thank you so much Mary 🙂 XOXO
totally! a good meal (spicy too) can lift any spirit. It’s the QUALITY of nourishment. YUM!
Yes! Sustenance just makes you feel GREAT!
Shishito peppers are so yummy! On another note, I’ve never tried black garlic, although it’s been on my to try list for forever. For me, cold, dark, and rainy nights = warm soup or stew. Anything I can cuddle in a bowl or a mug!
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You must get some black garlic! I really love it! 10000000x better than normal!
This looks delicious! You know what’s weird…I’ve never had any type of pepper that isn’t the typical red and green peppers lol, I just never know how I would add them in my recipes. Perhaps now I’ll have to try!
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Haha, you mean the good old sweet bell peppers 😉 I usually don’t cook with whole hot peppers, but since the shishito is not hot, I am a total fan now!
Looks tasty! I might try the recipe, substituting the chicken for tofu or maybe some tempeh.
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This looks so amazing and flavoursome, going to have to save this recipe!
Well thank you!
I love shishito peppers. Especially when you order them at a restaurant and there’s always that one really hot one lurking in there somewhere. Thanks for un-boring chicken breasts!
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Haha! I hope I never get that one!
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Wow, that looks unreal! I would love to try it!!
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I hope you get to make it then!
Whatwhat. I adore garlic–how have I never heard of black garlic!?!? I’ve never had those peppers either! :[ I need this in my life! <3
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And yes, you did need this in your life!
Oh, fail, Farrah, full of fail. Med school is murdering my brain cells. ;_;
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This sounds amazing! I have some black garlic from Trader Joe’s and have been trying to figure out what to make with it. Love this!
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Yay! This is perfect then!
We love those peppers. my mom and sister both grown them in the garden, and we throw them on the grill (just tossed in oil with salt and pepper) and grill them on a grill pan. I love them, and i even love getting the 1 in 10 knock your socks off hot ones too.
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That is awesome! I need to see if I can find them in the store now! I still haven’t looked myself!
i think that I’ve had shishito peppers once and they were so good! This sounds delicious especially on chilly days!
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They are awesome! Peppers I can totally handle!
Looks delicious! And I’m a bit of a wimp with spicy things so good to know they’re not too bad, I haven’t tried. I bet a side of plantain chips would be awesome 🙂
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I can’t handle really spicy either! It will only be spicy if you use a NOT mild salsa verde!
Haha, YES! All chicken is perfect with a side of plantains 😉
This looks and sounds so good! I love making sweet potato chili on dark and stormy days. It’s such a cozy comfort food!
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Thank you! Chili is always good and cozy!
I love experimenting with different peppers; yet I’ve never heard of this variety! On a scale of 1-10, how spicy are they? I can typically only handle about a 5 (and my boys complain about anything hotter than a 2….).
This recipe looks delish!
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I had never heard of them either! Haha, I already said in the post that they are a 1!
Oh boy. I apparently am a distracted reader. Thank you for responding so nicely 😉
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YUM, that looks soooo good.
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I had never heard of this pepper, but this looks wonderful and so comforting. This is so different from the flavors I would generally use– I am so curious to try this! I love trying new flavor combos.
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You will love it! It is not even spicy unless you use a spicy salsa!
Very cool! I’ve been wanting more recipes to play with black garlic. Thanks for sharing!
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So simple yet with such new-to-me ingredients! I need to get more adventurous when looking for veggies in the produce section!
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That looks very delicious! And I have never heard of black garlic before 🙂
Thanks so much for sharing your recipe with Tasty Tuesday linkup, Rebecca!
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You’ve got to try it!
Chili is very much my favourite for a dark and stormy day! My husband gets the meaty or chickeny things, and I get the beans 😀
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I always dig a bean filled chili! So good!
wow… this sounds so fancy, but actually looks pretty simple. delicious flavor combinations!
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This looks so delicious and healthy!
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The flavors in this sound amazing! I’d love to try something similar with tofu!
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This is so fancy, Rebecca I love it!!! I want this right now!! Can you come over and make it for me?? K thanks. xo
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I so would! I want to eat this right now too anyway, haha!
Whenever it’s stormy, I seem to always want soup. I’m not really sure why!
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I think a lot of people feel that way!
Wait – “black garlic”? I just Googled it and wow – what a simple and FANTASTIC dish this is – so few ingredients – so many complex flavors!
Right? I love cooking with black garlic! So much better than normal!
I love salsa verde so I’m going to have to make this soon!
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I think this was my first time with salsa verde! But I am totally a fan now!
I am totally loving this recipe. I have some black garlic that I need to do something with. This is perfect.
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Really!? Woohoo! You are one of the blessed to have black garlic 😉
Loving the look of this, I’m not a chicken fan but the extra flavours make it.
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This will make you a chicken fan 😉
Look at you gettin’ down with your bad self and some black garlic…YUMMY!
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Black garlic is the bomb! I just wish it was a more accessible ingredient for EVERYONE!