Balsamic Dijon Chicken

Ingredients:

4 5oz boneless skinless chicken breast

1 tsp olive oil

2 shallots, minced

8 oz cremini mushrooms, quartered

1 cup farro

1.5 cups low sodium vegetable broth

1/4 cup minced fresh parsley

Marinade:

1/3 cup balsamic vinegar

1 tsp extra virgin olive oil

1 tbsp Dijon mustard

Pinch each sea salt and ground black pepper

Instructions:

1. Prepare marinade: In a bowl or zip lock plastic bag, combine all marinade ingredients. Add chicken, turning to ensure that breasts are completely coated with marinade. Cover bowl with plastic wrap or seal bag and refrigerate until needed.

2. Set your rice cooker to the regular setting. Place 1 tsp oil in rice cooker bowl. Add shallot, stirring to coat, then close or cover with lid. Cook for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until shallots have softened. Add mushrooms and cook for 8 more minutes, covered and stirring occasionally, until mushrooms are soft and have released water. Stir in farro and cook, uncovered and stirring occasionally for 3 minutes.

3. Stir in broth. Place chicken, discarding leftover marinade, on top of farro mixture. Close or cover with lid and reset

rice cooker to "regular' setting. The program should take about 1 hour, depending on the rice cooker. Chicken is done when its internal temperature reaches 165F.

4. To serve, place 3/4 cup farro-mushroom mixture on each plate and top with 1 chicken breast. Sprinkle with parsley!

So as you can see in the picture I didn't f0llow the recipe. One because I didn't have farro on hand and two I wanted to eat the chicken along side a fresh salad. If you choose to cook it like me all you need to do differently is place the marinaded chicken along with juices in a 13x9 dish. Add your mushrooms and shallots and then a little extra vegetable broth. I then mixed the mushrooms around and tried to saturate them so they soaked up the juices. Cook on 350 for 30 min then flip chicken and cooked an additional 30 minutes or until done. It turned out super flavorful. It almost tasted like french onion soup!