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Food Thursday - California chicken

A delicious recipe from Hazel Patterson.

California Chicken

Ingredients:

• 4 slices of bacon
• 4 chicken thighs
• Salt
• pepper
• 2 tomatoes
• 1/2 cup cheddar cheese
• 1 Ripe Avocado
• 1 small red onion
• 1/4 teaspoon chilli powder
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon lime juice

Instructions:

1. Place your bacon into a medium sauté pan and cook until the bacon is crispy. Once bacon is cooked remove the bacon from the pan onto a plate lined with paper towels to drain. Leave the bacon grease in the pan.
2. Season your chicken breast with the salt and pepper and add to the same pan that the bacon was cooked in. Cook the chicken over medium heat for 6-8 minutes per side of chicken
3. While the chicken breasts are cooking make your homemade guacamole.
4. Cut your avocado in half, length wise and remove the seed using a spoon.
5. Using a spoon scoop the insides from all of the avocados into a large bowl.
6. Once all of the avocado is scooped smash all of the avocado. You can make is as smooth or as chunky as you would like to.
7. Dice your onion and add the onion to the bowl of mashed avocado.
8. Dice and remove most of the seeds from one tomato and add the diced tomato to the bowl of avocado.
9. Slice the other tomato which you will use to top the chicken with.
10. Add the lime juice, garlic powder and chili powder to your avocado, tomatoes and onions and mix well to incorporate into the guacamole. Set aside the bowl of guacamole.
11. If your pan is oven safe you can leave the chicken in the pan. If it is not then you will need to move it to an oven safe baking dish.
12. Top the chicken with the tomato slices, then half of the guacamole goes on to each of the chicken breasts. Top the guacamole with the cooked bacon and then sprinkle with the cheddar cheese.
13. Place the whole pan underneath your grill until the cheese is melted.

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Duration:

12 minutes