Each Saturday evening we bring you a Sunday Supper recipe. Why on Saturday? So you have time to shop and prepare for tomorrow.
I don't know how it happened, but my favorite dish from my go-to neighborhood Italian restaurant happens to be a simple concoction of penne tossed with some good olive oil and some sautéd garlic and broccoli—all topped by a grilled chicken breast. I always picture it as their sop to dieters or calorie-concious diners, and I always feel like it's akin to ordering steak at a seafood joint.
I order it because over the past year or so, I've started getting the acid reflux after eating heavily tomato-sauced foods, and this lightly treated pasta preparation appeals to me. The price, however, does not. (I'm embarrassed to even mention it here because it's ludicrous for what actually goes into it.)
Anyway, long story short, I got sick of paying through the nose for this stuff and experimented the other night with making it myself.
But that's not the recipe you're getting here—I haven't perfected it and still have a ways to go before sharing it.
What I do have is a pair of chicken breasts left over from my experiment and the need to use them up before they go bad. Rather than experiment further, I'll share this tried-and-true recipe with you. It's adapted from Jamie Oliver's Cook with Jamie, and it's a good way to use up a couple breasts of chicken.
Sometimes it's a boring meat, especially just the breast, but wrap it in some pancetta and throw some leeks in there and you're good to go. The amounts below correspond to one breast; just multiply them—and use a bigger cooking dish—to feed more people.
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