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Salsa Chicken

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Ingredients Method

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

Method
 

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