Tasty Tomato Pot

Tasty Tomato Pot

This dish is best when you’ve been feeling negligent food-wise. We recently went away for a weekend and I don’t know about you, but eating at restaurants gets very old very fast. I can never find solid veggies, and when I do, they feel like they’ve been soaking in butter and salt for weeks before they finally get to my plate.

Ingredients:

Basically any veggies that you love. Here’s what we did with ours tonight:

2tbsp. olive oil

3 cloves of garlic, roughly chopped

1 small onion diced-ish

10 quartered baby carrots

4 asparagus, chopped

1 small zucchini, sliced

½ a bell pepper sliced

1 28oz can diced tomatoes (I meant to get whole and then chop them up, but this worked out okay too, just make sure you get the ones without extra salt

1 tbsp. honey (to balance out the acidity of the tomatoes)

½ a lemon

1 chicken breast

½ lb. shrimp

1/2C chopped parsley (don’t know if this actually made a difference or not, but it looked healthy)

1-2 tbsp. Cajun seasoning (or mixed salt and pepper always works great too)

1.       Preheat the oven to 350.

2.       Slowly add the bolded ingredients, giving them time to simmer between each ingredient (I chopped as I added as opposed to chopping all ahead of time and then adding at the same time).add most of the seasoning too.

3.       After you get a tasty smell going, pour in the can of tomatoes, mix and cover.

4.       Cut the chicken to your preferred size, add to a bowl, add parsley, little seasoning and squeeze the ½ lemon over the chicken. Mix with a little olive oil, spread on a baking sheet and bake until done (usually 15-20 minutes).

5.       As soon as you put the chicken in, put the rice on (if you’re eating this with rice)

6.       After you put the rice on, you have the perfect amount of time to shell the shrimp and add them to your tomato pot. Stand there and stir JUST until the shrimp turn pink. Also, I added the rest of the lemon to the pot, but that’s just because I was feeling fancy.

7.       Take the chicken out of the oven, drain the pan, and add to the tomato pot.

8.       What? Did you say that took you exactly the amount of time for the rice to be done at this exact moment? Check that baby!

9.       Pour over rice, or next to rice, and eat! 

Don’t you feel healthy? Me too.