Chicken & vegetable parcels

One problem with cooking chicken is that if you overcook the chicken breast it becomes incredibly dry and tasteless and to be honest I've had my fair share of dry chicken breasts. Frying chicken breast is easy compared to cooking it in the oven and there was a point where I though that unless I choose chicken with bone in or at least skin on there is no other way I could cook a juicy chicken in the oven. After spending a considerable amount of time trying to find an answer to my problem on the internet (and failing miserably at it), it finally hit me - all I have to do is to ensure that the moisture does not escape from the chicken. Obviously one way to do that is to wrap the chicken breast into a nice slice of bacon or Parma ham or stuff it with some cream cheese, but that would defeat the purpose of having skinless chicken breast in the first place. So, after countless times of trying to cook moist chicken I finally found the answer - all I had to do was to place the chicken in a foil parcel and voila - no more dry chicken breasts!

This dish gets ready incredibly quick and can be easily made a day ahead and all you have to do is to chuck it in the oven and you'll end up with a perfect mid-week dinner. It's one of the quick, easy and healthy dishes that has become one of our favourite. The beauty is in the fact that it is so easily adjustable - you can add whatever vegetables you have at home into the parcel and it will come out as delicious. Serve the parcel on its own or with some rice or potatoes - it's delicious either way.

Ingredients
(Makes 2)
- 2 skinless, boneless chicken breasts
- 1/2 red pepper
- 75g snow peas (or sugar snap peas)
- 100g bok choy
- 1 carrot, sliced into thin strips
- 1 lemon slice
- Salt
- Pepper

Directions
Preheat the oven to 200C and cut out two large pieces of foil. Wash and dry the vegetables. Place the bok choy in the middle of the foil, top that with carrot sticks, snow peas and red pepper. Finally place the chicken breast on top of the vegetables and top the chicken off with a half a slice of lemon. Sprinkle with some salt and pepper and fold the foil together so that it would not touch the chicken. Place in the oven and cook for around 20 minutes (or until chicken is ready). Serve immediately just on its own or with some rice.