Calprese Chicken and Courgettie

Salad Calprese, is one of the most simple but beautiful tasting salads you can have, With fresh Mozzarella, home grown basil and fresh tomatoes it makes a mouth watering-ly flavoursome dish. With this in mind I decided I wanted to take the idea of these 3 ingredients and make something exciting for dinner.I came up with this mozzarella chicken, in a smokey tomato chunky sauce and basil pesto spiralized courgettie.... and boy did it work!

As well as in a salad, mozzarella cheese is also nice melted, as you often find it on pizzas or oven baked dishes. So I butterflied, seasoned and pan fried the chicken breasts, and chucked a load of mozzarella cheese on and melted it under the grill!Next to bring in the tomatoes and basil to the dish, I made a rich and slightly smokey tomato and basil base sauce for the chicken to lay on. In this was tomatoes, mushrooms, pepper, garlic and a load of basil. I allowed this too simmer for a while to really enhance those tomatoey basil flavours.

Finally what to serve it with? I waned to have a low carb healthy dinner and decided that the dish needed a bit of greenery to it. I also wanted to further bring out the basil element to the dish. So what green vegetable could I combine with more basil. Courgettie..... one of my favourite green vegetables! I steamed this in a saucepan, and after it was cooked, threw a load of basil pesto through.

Considering its a low carb meal, with 5 vegetables in it, it tasted so cheeky and delicious! Tomato, basil and mozzarella really are a match made in heaven, even outside of the salad bowl. Give this dish a go and let me know just how well it works!