The Easy and Super Quick Chicken with Tuna Sauce is really an ace up your sleeve, it takes very little time and few ingredients to prepare it on the fly. A recipe for Chicken with Tuna Sauce that I often and gladly make when I have guests at home since I prepare it in just over 20 minutes and keep it in the fridge, great to eat just prepared with the chicken still hot or warm or at room temperature by taking it out of the fridge a few minutes before serving it. You can enrich it with aromatic herbs like rosemary or parsley as you like, always after cooking and it will be much appreciated by everyone.
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Many of you always tell me that you buy ready-made dishes at the rotisserie or at your trusted supermarket counter, unfortunately, I can’t do it, but every time I go, I look at what they prepare, and then I try to reproduce it at home and this recipe was born just like that, trying to replicate what was seen in the ready-made trays. If you like recipes with tuna sauce or chicken and never know how to prepare it, here below I leave other tasty ideas, and then right after the photo, we will discover how to prepare the Easy and Super Quick Chicken with Tuna Sauce!!
- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Very Cheap
- Preparation time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: 4 People
- Cooking methods: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All Seasons
Ingredients for Easy and Super Quick Chicken with Tuna Sauce
The ingredient quantities are for a hearty main dish without a first course, so if you serve a first course, adjust accordingly
- 1.65 lbs chicken breast
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 0.7 oz butter
- 1 clove garlic
- 2 pinches salt
- 2 eggs (hard-boiled)
- 6.35 oz canned tuna in oil
- 1 tbsp salted capers
- 3 fillets salted anchovies
- as needed vegetable broth
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Tools
- 1 Pan
- 1 Immersion Blender
- 1 Saucepan
Preparation for Easy and Super Quick Chicken with Tuna Sauce
To prepare the easy and super quick chicken with tuna sauce, first cut the chicken breast into slices not too thin.
Hard-boil the eggs in a saucepan then cool them and peel them.
In a nonstick pan, heat the extra virgin olive oil with butter and the whole garlic clove.
When the butter is melted, cook the chicken slices over high heat for a few minutes on one side, flip them and let them brown on the other side.
In the meantime, while the chicken slices are cooking, peel the hard-boiled eggs, place them inside the glass of the blender along with the drained tuna, capers, anchovy fillets, extra virgin olive oil, and a little broth.
Blend intermittently and if necessary add gradually more broth (cold) and continue blending until a more or less creamy consistency is achieved depending on your taste.
When the easy and super quick chicken with tuna sauce is well cooked (it will take about 10 minutes), salt it.
Arrange the slices on a serving platter and drizzle with the tuna sauce.
Decorate with more capers that have been desalinated and squeezed and if you like, also with some freshly chopped parsley and serve.
How to store Easy and Super Quick Chicken with Tuna Sauce
You can store it in the fridge well covered with plastic wrap for 2 days, alternatively, you can prepare the tuna sauce a few days in advance and keep it in the fridge closed in an airtight container.
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