Chicken with Bacon, Cream and Thyme

We decided to try a chicken recipe from the low carb gourmet cookbook. This time we selected Chicken with Bacon, Cream and Thyme. This is a lovely moist recipe where the chicken is wrapped in bacon and cooked in cream. 

Ingredients: 

4 Chicken Breasts

8 Bacon Rashers

8 small thyme sprigs, or you can use dried thyme. 

120ml chicken stock

240ml Double Cream

Wrap 2 bacon rashers around each chicken breast. Tuck in the thyme, if using sprigs. Fry off the breasts until browned. 

Place chicken in a roasting tray and pour over the cream and stock. If using dry thyme then sprinkle this in at this stage. 

Place in the oven, 180oC, for 20-25 minutes until the chicken is cooked through and the chicken has thickened. 

As with all dishes we serve this with low carb vegetables like green beans, cauliflower or broccoli. 

We enjoyed this dish as it was nice to have moist chicken with a built in sauce, which was delicious. The carbs in this will depend mostly on which stock you use but ours came in at around 2g carbs per serving. This serves 4. 

Unfortunately I don't have a photo of this at the moment but next time I make it we will be sure to add one. 

Butter Chicken

One of the recipes we've recently tried from the Low Carb Gourmet Cookbook is "Butter Chicken". I'm not really sure why it's called this as it doesn't seem very butter chicken to me but it is tasty. It's basically a chicken curry recipe. 

Ingredients: 

680g Chicken breast cut into pieces

2 tbsp tandoori paste, or whatever flavour you can find, we had madras. 

180ml Double Cream

1 tbsp butter

Fry off the chicken until it's golden brown. Add the paste and the cream and stir it all together. Cook for around 20 minutes until the chicken is cooked all the way through and the sauce has thickened. Stir in the butter. 

We serve this with cauliflower but you could make cauliflower rice or mash if you prefer. 

We really enjoyed this as it was very quick but produced a lovely flavoursome dish. It is relatively low carb and this figure will depend on the paste that you use. Ours was around 2.7g Carbs per portion. The above should serve around 4 people. 

At the moment I don't seem to have a picture of this one so I'll have to remember next time we eat it.