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Salsa Chicken

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Ingredients
  

Chicken & marinade

  • 4 Chicken breasts - 1 lb and 5 oz that - 680 gms
  • Salt and Pepper
  • A squeeze of Lime Juice
  • 1 tsp Cumin powder
  • 1 tsp Mexican Chilli powder
  • 1/2 cup Onion
  • 1/2 cup Garlic slices
  • 1/2 cup GreenPepper
  • 1/2 cup Cheese

Salsa sauce

  • 1 tbsp finely diced Garlic
  • 1/4 cup finely diced Onion
  • 1/4 finely diced green Pepper
  • 780 ml diced Tomatoes
  • 1/2 can - Chipotles in Adobo sauce - 73 ml – 3.25 fl oz
  • 1 tsp Cumin powder
  • Salt & pepper to taste
  • 4 eggs

Instructions
 

  • Make diagonal slits in the chicken breasts
  • Add salt and pepper, lime juice, cumin and chilli powder on both sides
  • Tuck in the green pepper, garlic, onion and cheese into the slits
  • Prepare the sauce by heating some oil
  • Saute the garlic, onion and green pepper
  • Add the diced tomatoes, followed by the chipotle peppers
  • Add the cumin powder, salt and pepper
  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
  • Transfer the chicken breasts to an oven pan and surround with the salsa sauce, reserving about 1/2 a cup
  • Cook this for 20 mins
  • Remove, add the rest of the sauce and crack the eggs into the mounds of fresh salsa
  • Season the eggs with salt and pepper
  • Cook for another 10 - 15 mins