comment icon 50 more comments These are trying times, and cooking dinner feels, well, maybe to you it feels easy? But to me it feels like it requires monumental effort, physically and mentally and dishes-ly. Easy, minimal, and delicious is the three-way target I’m looking to land on. Let me give you a brain break. Let me show you a cheat code. Let me present an idea that feels about 10x more fancy than it actually is. It is called caprese chicken with smashed potatoes. Here’s how you make it: You sauté chicken. You top it with sundried tomatoes and cheese and put it in the oven. You garnish it. The end. For the overachievers among us, or honestly, the people who kind of cannot stop with golden crispy potatoes (PRESENT), I would like to suggest the second most trickster thing in this post after the fake-fancy chicken which is SMASHED POTATOES. Ideally these work best with the tiny potatoes that can be contained once smashed. But I understand, these are weird times, you might not have tiny potatoes on hand. In which case I would suggest the exact same method with regular potatoes – with just slightly slower expectations for how they will look. Larger potatoes just want to fall apart a bit more. But does a hungry, tired, semi-moody person care about “falling apart a little bit”, or do they only care about the golden brown salty crispy part? I will leave you to decide as I eat the falling apart remnants of my golden salty crispy potatoes off the baking sheet. Round out the experience, please. Pour yourself a nice drink in a pretty glass – anything from sparkling water with a squeeze of lemon to a proper glass of red wine – because THE LITTLE THINGS ARE THE BIG THINGS. Always, and especially right now. Let’s make a moment out of this. Caprese chicken and smashed potatoes and fake-fancy dinner… here you have it. A little pep for your step.
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This recipe was inspired by a super yummy recipe I made a few years ago from Local Crate, a Minnesota-based meal delivery service. ♡ This is my version of it!
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10–12 small red or gold potatoes olive oil, garlic powder, salt, and pepper fresh parsley or chives
For the Chicken:
1 lb. chicken breasts (I like to cut 2 breasts lengthwise into thinner pieces to make a total of 4 pieces) olive oil, salt, and pepper 6-ish roasted or sun dried tomatoes 2 ounces havarti cheese, in small slices (any cheese works – be flexible) fresh basil balsamic reduction (see notes)
