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Plan Z Phase: This is a Z2 (ZReduction) recipe.

Servings: Serves 4

Ingredients:

• 4 bone-in chicken breasts, skin removed. You can also do boneless if you choose. I just used bone-in because I think they add more flavor.
• ½ small white or yellow onion
• 1 chipotle chili in adobo sauce. You can find small cans of these chilies in the Mexican section of the grocery store. You only need one chili. Save or freeze the rest for later use.
• 8 oz of tomato sauce (no sugar in ingredient list)
• ½ tsp of cumin
• ¼ tsp of cinnamon
• ½ cup of beef broth (you can also use chicken or veggie broth)
• salt and pepper to taste

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Season your chicken breasts with sea salt and pepper. Pop in the oven to bake. Bone in will take about 45 minutes. Boneless chicken will cook faster. Plan on 30 minutes for boneless.

While the chicken is in the oven, you can make your sauce.

In a medium sauce pan add the onion, chili, tomato sauce, cumin, cinnamon and broth. Heat on medium high until it begins to bubble. Turn heat down and cook for 10 minutes to meld the flavors. Stir periodically.

Turn heat off and let the sauce site to cool down a bit. Take you the blender and carefully put the sauce in. Hold the top of the blender down with a towel. Turn on to puree sauce. Be careful not to burn yourself. Putting the towel over the top and holding it down will prevent the top from trying to pop off. The cooler the sauce the easier this is.

Just before serving the chicken pour the sauce back into a pan and heat it.

You can serve sauce in a ramekin and dip your chicken. You can drizzle it over the top or you can pour it over.  This is a firey-hot sauce so be careful not to scorch your taste buds. If you like HOT food this one is for you. Don’t use more than ¼ cup of sauce or you’ll go over your vegetable allotment.

You’ll have plenty of leftover sauce to use later.

Serve with a cup of vegetables and an optional plain salad.

Enjoy!

Cheers,