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Grilled chicken with gremolata and rocket salad

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Ingredients

  • For the gremolata and chicken:

  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1/4 tsp salt, plus more for seasoning
  • 45g fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves
  • 3g finely Technique: Grate Shredding a large ingredient to produce small, evenly-sized morsels. You can grate ingredients using a grating disc fitted inside your food processor. I know this Teach me, please grated lemon zest
  • 5ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
  • 4 chicken breasts, about 115g each
  • Olive oil spray
  • Freshly ground black pepper

  • For the rocket salad:

  • 2 bunches rocket, stemmed and leaves torn
  • 1/4 head radicchio, separated and leaves torn
  • 150g red or yellow pear tomatoes, halved
  • 1 tsp extra-virgin olive oil
  • 5ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper

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Method

How to make Grilled chicken with gremolata and rocket salad

For the gremolata:
1) Smash the garlic cloves, sprinkle with the salt and, with the side of a large knife, Technique: Mash Crushing one or more ingredients to create a uniform purée that still has some body. You can mash using a mash and purée kit fitted inside your food processor. I know this Teach me, please mash and smear the mixture to a coarse paste. Technique: Chop To cut large ingredients or dishes into smaller chunks using a sharp knife. You can chop using a serrated blade fitted inside your food processor. I know this Teach me, please Chop the parsley leaves with the garlic paste.

2) Stir the parsley mixture with the lemon zest, juice and olive oil in a small bowl. Set aside.

For the chicken:
1) Preheat a griddle pan or nonstick skillet to medium high. Spray the chicken breasts lightly with the olive oil and season with salt and black pepper, to taste.

2) Cook the chicken, in batches if necessary to avoid crowding the pan, turning once, until cooked through, about 2 mins per side. Put each chicken breast on a plate and top with the gremolata.

For the rocket salad:
1) Toss the rocket, radicchio and tomatoes with 1 tsp of olive oil and the lemon juice, salt and pepper.

2) Divide the salad between the plates. Serve immediately.