Tuscan Chicken with Beans Recipe MYVIRGINKITCHEN

cannellini beans

🥗Healthier: navy beans

💰Cheaper: great northern beans

Great northern beans are often less expensive and have a similar texture.

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grana padano

Grana padano is a more affordable cheese with a similar flavor.

Heat a low flame in a deep pan and add 1 tablespoon of olive oil.

Add 4 pieces of bacon to the pan and cook until it's oozing out some fat.

Remove the bacon and set aside, then add 2 chicken breasts to the pan to brown for about 2-3 minutes on each side until lightly colored.

Add chopped onion to the pan and sauté for 5 minutes in the bacon fat.

Pour in a tin of chopped tomatoes into the pan with the onions.

Add the cooked bacon back into the pan, along with fresh parsley and rosemary.

Stir in 2 tablespoons of sweet corn and about a teaspoon of ground black pepper.

Add cannellini beans and red kidney beans to the mixture in the pan and stir well.

Transfer the mixture to a baking dish that can go in the oven.

Lay the browned chicken breasts on top of the mixture in the baking dish.

Season the chicken with more ground black pepper before placing it in the oven.

Bake in the oven for at least 30 minutes until simmering and bubbling.

After 30 minutes, lift the chicken and place spinach leaves underneath it to wilt for about 5 minutes.

Return the dish to the oven for an additional 10 minutes for a total of 45 minutes baking time.

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