Chicken and Leeks in Blue Cheese Sauce

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I am big fan of blue cheese sauce so when I saw this in the Pinch Of Nom recipe book, I thought it would be a good dish to try and recreate. The ingredients list I have kept as in the book as the original recipe is to serve 4, I just adjusted the chicken for just me and Skye.
Let's get cooking!

Ingredients:
4 chicken breasts (skin and visible fat removed)
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Low-calorie cooking spray
2 medium leeks, trimmed, washed and cut into thick slices
300 ml chicken stock (1 chicken stock cube dissolved in 300 ml boiling water)
75 g low-fat cream cheese
35 g Danish blue cheese

Firstly pre-heat your oven to 200C/Fan 180C/Gas Mark 6 and line a baking tray wit baking parchment, I forgot to line my baking tray. I started off by washing and cutting my leek, I only used 1 leek as it was quite a large leek and 2 of these bad boys would have been wasted with it just being me and Skye.

Place the chicken on the baking tray and season with the salt and black pepper. Cook in the oven for 20-25 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through.

While the chicken is cooking, spray a frying pan with your low-calorie cooking spray, add the leeks and cook for 5 minutes over a medium heat, stirring often so they soften and don't colour.

Next pour the stock into the pan and bring to the boil, simmer until the liquid has reduced by about half.

Next stir in the cream cheese and crumble in the blue cheese. Stir, then simmer for a few minutes until the sauce starts to thicken.

Check your chicken to make sure it's cooked through, I cut my open to make sure it's all cooked through.

Once your chicken is cooked through, place each breast onto a plate and divide the sauce equally over the chicken breasts. I served some of the leeks first and then added the sliced chicken on top and ladled the sauce and more leeks over the chicken breasts.
In the Pinch of Nom book they suggest their Lazy Mash as a serving option but I went for some classic chips.

While I liked this dish, I don't think I'd be in a rush to cook it again, I think blue cheese is an acquired taste, I really like the creamy blue cheese sauce but I don't know what it was about this one that made me have a love-hate relationship. The chicken and leeks worked really well together and I could eat them again, maybe I'll give the recipe another try but leave out the blue cheese and just have a creamy cheese sauce. Skye on the other hand was not a fan of anything on the plate a part from the chips.

 If you're interested in any of Pinch of Nom's recipe's then you can buy the recipe book in all major supermarkets as well as online retailers Waterstones and Amazon.

See you soon!

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