Garlic Tomato Chicken
Quick and healthy chicken breast with tomatoes that are in their prime ripeness end of August – beginning of September. And the ones I can’t stop buying during my farmers market haul every week. So juicy, sweet and tender, local tomatoes are nothing like supermarket’s “cardboard” tomatoes we are about to experience. So hurry up and eat them while you can.
This tomato chicken came out super juicy because thin tenders are quickly seared and combined with fresh tomato sauce. So-so quick and delicious!
What to Serve Chicken and Tomatoes With?
In best Ukrainian tradition, I served chicken and tomatoes with buckwheat (love buckwheat!), but you can use more familiar whole wheat spaghetti, quinoa or brown rice. And introduce yourself to buckwheat next with buckwheat soup or buckwheat stir fry.
If you need help with eating tomatoes (half of mine disappear as slices sprinkled with salt), check out my tomato and red onion salad, lettuce tomato cucumber salad and tomato feta pasta salad.
This week I bought 10 lbs box and made rice stuffed tomatoes with enchilada sauce.
How to Make Chicken Breast with Tomatoes and Garlic
Cut chicken breasts into tenders, season with dried oregano, salt and pepper; gently toss around to coat right on the cutting board. Save the bowls.
My tip on peeling garlic cloves quickly is to smash it with flat side of a knife first, then peel and mince. Easy-peasy, no need for plastically jarred minced garlic. I seriously question its freshness, flavour and country of origin.
Cut fresh tomatoes into half moon shape slices. Look for any kind of ripe and juicy tomatoes – I used beefsteak. In winter, tomatoes on the vine would be the best choice.
Sear seasoned chicken on one side until its edges turn white. Flip and cook until golden brown.
Then you want to sauté garlic and oregano for a bit to help release their flavours. There should be some drippings and oil left in the skillet from cooking chicken – utilize them to add more flavour to our chicken breast with tomatoes.
And last but not least, spread tomatoes on top of garlic and spices. They will start releasing their juices while cooking making the most delicious fresh tomato sauce, leaving canned one in your pantry for cold winter nights.
That’s it. Enjoy!
Need More Ideas for Chicken Breast?
- Oven baked chicken breast – learn how to bake easy chicken breast for anything.
- Grilled chicken breast – no marinating is required.
- Instant Pot chicken breast – this will become your go to for shredded chicken.
- Greek chicken – juicy and delish with lemon, garlic and oregano.
- Chili lime chicken – bake, grill or fry and use in tacos, salads or fajitas year round.
- Cilantro lime chicken – flavorful Mexican chicken in 30 mins.
Chicken Breast with Tomatoes and Garlic
Chicken Breast with Tomatoes is 30 minute healthy dinner recipe with quickly seared chicken tenders, then sautéed with fresh tomatoes, garlic and oregano.
- Prep Time: 8 minutes
- Cook Time: 16 minutes
- Total Time: 24 minutes
- Yield: 8 servings 1x
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Stove
- Cuisine: American Ukrainian
Ingredients
Chicken Breasts:
- 4 large (2-3 lbs) chicken breasts, boneless & skinless
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp salt
- Ground black pepper, to taste
- Avocado oil
Sauce:
- 4 large (3 lbs) ripe tomatoes, cut into half moon shapes
- 5 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano
- 1/4 tsp salt
- Ground black pepper, to taste
- Basil or parsley, finely chopped
Instructions
- Cut chicken breasts into tenders.
- Sprinkle with 1/2 tsp oregano, 1/2 tsp salt and pepper to taste. Gently toss around to coat evenly.
- Slice tomatoes and chop garlic.
- Preheat large ceramic non-stick skillet on medium heat and swirl a bit of oil to coat.
- Add half of chicken and cook for 5 minutes or until golden brown on each side. Transfer to a dish and cook remaining chicken this way.
- Reduce heat to low, add garlic and 1/2 tsp oregano. Cook for 1 minute, stirring frequently (add a bit of oil if there was none left from cooking chicken).
- Layer tomatoes on top, sprinkle with 1/4 tsp salt and pepper to taste. Turn up the heat to medium and cook tomatoes for about 5 minutes, gently tossing them around (if tomatoes aren’t juicy enough, add a splash of water).
- When tomatoes have released their juices and turned into fresh tomato sauce, turn off the heat and return chicken back to skillet.
- Gently tuck it in between tomatoes and sprinkle with fresh basil or parsley.
- Serve warm with whole wheat spaghetti, quinoa, brown rice or buckwheat.
Store: Refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
Did you make this recipe? Please give it a star rating in the comments.
sounds great, gonna try it! Thank you for sharing.
Please don’t hesitate to leave a comment and star review once you have tried the recipe.
Hi! I am a high school teacher in SC. We are creating a recipe corner for students and parents in our school newspaper that will be printed and digital. We would love to use this recipe, but want to ensure that we follow copyright policy. Would you please advise if this is okay to do and how you would prefer to be acknowledged as the creator? Thanks so much!
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Yes, that is OK. Please credit “Olena Osipov of ifoodreal.com”. Thanks!
I made this recipe tonight, followed the entire recipe and served with whole wheat spaghetti topped with fresh parmesan cheese! Tasted amazing, this is so heathy and full of flavor!! I can’t wait to make it again! Thank you Olena for the amazing recipe, I love your blog!
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Awe, thank you so much for your amazing feedback Courtney. I am always so thrilled to hear when my recipes are enjoyed!
How long do you cook the dish after adding the chicken back into the tomatoes/
You don’t. It’s already cooked. Follow steps 8-10.
Great recipe! We love it! Question about the nutrition facts… how much is a serving?
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A serving would be ~ 1/2 a chicken breast and sauce. Hope that helps Melissa.
My husband loves it!
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She loved it!!!
My significant other enjoyed this meal and so did I. This was served with a bed of brown rice and I didn’t even use a drop of oil!
Thank you for the recipe 🙂
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You are very welcome David!
I am making this tonight. Adding red peppers and I only had diced chicken breast.
I will let you know how it turns out.
Thanks for recipe!!
Bon Appetit Thanagi!
I was looking to use up some tomatoes and this recipe fit the bill. Delicious! My hubby wasn’t sure about the tomatoes, then loved the results, and so did our kids. Thank you!
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You are so welcome!
This is a great combination of super easy and flavorful.
I will recommend it to my family and make it again.
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Thanks for the great feedback Beth!
I could not be more thrilled that I found this website. We have been eating all our junky snacks by the hour and were desperately in need of some healthy, easy food! Most of the shopping we had to do was just the veggies. It felt so great to cook an absolutely DELICIOUS meal last night in under 30 minutes. We are beyond excited to make the Salmon tonight and chicken lettuce wraps tomorrow! So thankful for you, please keep these amazing recipes coming!!! (Am sharing this website on my workout facebook group, too!)
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Sam! That’s so great to hear! Hope you enjoy many more of my recipes 🙂
I am happy to have found you Olena! I love real people who eat real food!! I was looking for a sugar free oatmeal cookie recipe to give my husband as a snack and was delighted with you and your recipes because of your no nonsense approach. I cook a lot like you, but I don’t have an instapot, yet, so I am still using my good old pressure cooker, crockpot and rice cooker. But today my brain was on overload and I was running late, so I looked over your chicken recipes and said, yes, this is what my family needs right now. It was very easy and good! Plus I had a 2 1/2 lb bag of chicken tenders at home so I didn’t have to cut them 🙂 and 6 very ripe tomatoes so I used all. My only changes were: I don’t cook with salt, and didn’t have fresh basil so used a tsp dried and also added 2 handfulls of baby spinach for the bright green leaves effect and also added a handful of sliced baby bella mushrooms that were in my fridge begging to be eaten and I used canola oil. Served with some leftover rice. Now I am glad to have leftover chicken and sauce for tomorrow’s lunch. We’re all happy that I’m about to make those oatmeal cookies next. Will let you know how they turn out 🙂 – stay healthy!
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Thank you so much for you kind comments Lilia!
Good morning! I hope you can respond soon. I’m looking for good meals to lower High Cholesterol. Not something I have expected to have to do. I’m going to try this recipe. Wanted to know dinners would be good for me? Can you please help!
As I am not a doctor I honestly wouldn’t be able to give you that advice. Sorry wish could help more. We do provide nutiritional info on each recipe though which you can refer to after speaking to a medical provider. Good luck!
Excellent taste for kids and adults. Good instruction. A little wordy to an otherwise 5 star recipe (hard to follow with kids chattering at the same time).
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I am so glad you enjoyed this recipe, Rebecca! It is an older recipe and now with more experience I have updated and simplified instructions. On another note, English is my 2nd language, and this recipe is not traditional American one so I wanted to make sure readers get the best result. Plus after raising 2 kids I can tell you that it is not easy to follow any recipe with kids chattering at same time. Or do anything, in fact LOL.
It was a hit for my 12-year-old son!
That is the best when kids (& the rest of the family) love what we moms make. That’s so great!
I just prepared this for dinner. Amazing!
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Yay!!! Thank you for your amazing review!
We all loved the flavor and I loved how quick and easy it was. I did add a small container of fresh spinach with the tomatoes for an extra boost of veggies.
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So happy to hear!
It’s delicious! I love it! Thank you for sharing the recipe!
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You are very welcome!
So simple, so yummy!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it, Jill!
I am Latina and rely on spanish seasonings especially adobo and sofrito. This was my first time I follow a recipe to almost a T. I I used 3 garlic cloves instead of 5 because of heartburn issues on my part and it was amazing. My 16 year old son just recently started hating jarred tomato sauce but asked for extra sauce. The chicken was amazingly tender and seasoned. So easy and delicious thank you!!
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Awesome!!! Happy to hear, Linare. Us, Ukrainians, rely heavily on garlic haha. Glad your son liked this chicken breast recipe!
This was so easy to make and it tasted so good! I put it over white rice since I didn’t have brown rice, or quinoa at home already!
I made a romaine salad topped with tuna salad, eggs, tomatoes, and cucumbers to accompany this side so I wouldn’t eat much rice!
Wish I could post a photo of the finished product!
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Yum!!! That is so amazing to hear! Glad you enjoyed my recipe!
Wow! This was really good and easy to make! I needed a recipe to get rid of the tomatoes and extra chicken breast that I had in the fridge and found this recipe. This is one of the few times I actually craved the tomatoes and kept wanting more. So glad to find something easy yet healthy.
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Fantastic! Glad you enjoyed the recipe!
Haven’t made this yet plan to this week love that it’s healthy and has my favorite ingredients
Thank you
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Please let me know how you like it, Trish!
Very tasty! I brined the chicken first – which always helps with breasts – but it came together easily, quickly, and very satisfyingly. We’ll do this again!
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That is so amazing to hear! Glad you enjoyed my recipe!
Wow this looks so simple and delicious! My family is currently packing to move across the country and all I had in my refrigerator was Tomatoes on the vine, and chicken in my freezer. (Obviously a few other things) I had no idea what to make for dinner until I came across this recipe! I will be making this tonight as it looks wonderful! I think my husband and daughter will love it!! Thank you for the recipe!
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You are welcome! Enjoy!
Very tasty light, summer recipe. I served it with a side of spaghetti squash. My husband loved it!
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Fantastic! Glad you enjoyed the recipe!
Hi, it does not mention what you are searing the chicken in…you need some sort of oil or something??? This question if for the Chicken Breast with tomatoes.
It does say. Avocado oil. Any oil you usually fry in.
Can I cook in the stove ask don’t cook on the top of the stove
Yes you can. I would follow baked chicken breast recipe instructions.
Delicious! We served over quinoa (made the quinoa in chicken stock and added a touch of salt and soy sauce) and the dish was wonderful. Will definitely be making this again in the future.
Thank you!
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The chicken looks so yummy! Will try this recipe tonight.
Please let me know how you like it.
Excellent. Very flavorful
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Made this recipe Sunday(4/14/19)… another hit in our house – definitely a 5 star!!. My husband came in from work & smelled the aroma coming from the kitchen & wanted to know what was cooking as he said he bet it’s as good as it smells – IT WAS!! He has ask me where I got the recipe(s) every time I’ve made one of your dishes. Thanks Olena… I’ll be making more of your recipes!
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You are so welcome, Tricia! 🙂 Tell your husband anything with garlic comes from Olena.:)
Garlic is a staple in our house… love it! I added white wine vinegar after the tomatoes went in… and maybe a little more garlic. It was, as I mentioned, 5 Star Delicious!!!
After eyeing this recipe for a week now… decided to make it today for lunch… surprise my husband when he gets home from work. I’ve not tasted it yet but… I can tell you at this moment it smells devine & I hope I can wait until my hubby gets home to eat it. I’ll let you know afterward… rate it. It’s more than likely going to be another 5 ? I suspect. The aroma in the kitchen is definitely making me hungry!!
Looking for something different to cook and saw this – quick and easy to make – didn’t have large tomatoes so used a box of tiny tomatoes which seem to work well. Really tasty
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Yes. Any tomatoes. Grape are more pricey but in winter it doesn’t matter haha. Glad you liked it.:)
I have made this before but tonight I added a small onion, one jalapeno and mushrooms while I was cooking the garlic. After the tomatoes went in I added some white wine and balsamic vinegar.
Fantastic!!!
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Nice! Great additions when you are feeling adventurous. I like to cook like that when time allows.:)
I made it for the first time and it was delicious. I will definitely make it often as my husband loved it too. I used rice as a side dish.
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This was the best chicken I’ve ever tasted. ?
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Easy and delicious. I added a splash of white wine.
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Hi Olena, this looks really good. You used to include nutrition info and sometimes WW points…Do you not do that anymore? Thanks and always enjoy making your recipes.
Hi Megan. No, sorry I don’t include nutritional info anymore. Glad you are enjoying!:)
Love the simplisity of this recipe. Perfect for a weeknight!