Chicken Garlic Caprese Flatbread

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser.  All opinions are mine alone. #MakeItMazola #simpleswap #CollectiveBias

My Grandma Marcella always had a bottle of Mazola® Corn Oil in her kitchen.  So when I saw a bottle of Mazola Corn Oil at the store, it put me right back in her farm kitchen with the whole family around and fresh veggies on the table.  Wanting to be sure I was making heart-healthy choices for my family (Grandma Marcella wasn’t exactly concerned with heart-healthy in the 1960s), I did some research.  A clinical study showed Mazola Corn Oil reduces cholesterol 2x more than extra virgin olive oil.  To learn more about this claim, see Mazola.com.

So with my bottle of Mazola Corn Oil and some inspiration from Grandma Marcella, I decided to change up my Chicken Garlic Caprese Flatbread recipe by swapping out a few ingredients to make it lighter and really highlight those fresh ingredients.  These flatbreads are a quick 30-minute meal.  I serve them with an Italian Green Salad to bring in more fresh vegetables.  Flatbreads have always been a favorite dish on my family’s dinner table.  After a few changes to my usual recipe, I feel even better about serving these. Which is good because my family would eat them every night if I let them.

Mazola corn oil is heart-healthy and an all-purpose oil that works great in baking, cooking, grilling, sauteing, stir-fries, marinades, and dressings.  Looks like Grandma Marcella knew what she was doing because she used Mazola in everything.  I mean everything.

What I personally love about this oil is it has a neutral flavor that lets all the fresh ingredients stand out in this recipe.  That’s perfect for a recipe with so many summer vegetables.  These are flavors we don’t want to cover with oil.

My family has always liked this flatbread and salad meal.  It’s all about simplicity and flavors without the need to spend hours in the kitchen.  This delicious dish is on the table in 30 minutes.  This time I opted to make it a healthier meal with a few simple ingredient swaps.  Here is what I changed, but feel free to adapt these changes for your taste.

To make the Chicken Garlic Caprese Flatbread healthier I made these simple swaps

• Swap out butter for Mazola Corn Oil to cook the garlic. This reduces the saturated fats and cholesterol we don’t need in our diets.
• Swap out mozzarella cheese for feta and parmesan cheeses for a lighter taste.
• Swap out the creamy Italian dressing for an Italian vinaigrette made with corn oil. This avoids the cholesterol found in mayonnaise-based dressings.

Let’s make this flatbread and I promise you will be sitting down to dinner in 30-minutes.

Preheat your oven first then cook the chicken.  Here’s a tip: if you prefer, a rotisserie chicken can be used, or, better yet, some leftover chicken.  I feel whatever makes your meal prep easy is the way to go.

While the chicken is cooking, heat the chopped garlic with the corn oil in a small saucepan for 5 minutes. Cooking the garlic in the corn oil softens the garlic and flavors the oil.

Here’s another great thing about Mazola corn oil: it has a higher smoking point than other oils.  You know when you turn away from a pan of olive oil only to turn back to find grey smoke wafting up because the oil got too hot?  That doesn’t happen here!  Corn oil’s smoke point is 450 degrees so you can cook at high temperatures without affecting the flavor of the food or the nutritional value.

While the garlic is cooking, chop the tomatoes and basil then combine both with a little pepper.

Place the flatbreads on a baking sheet and spread the garlic oil on top with a spoon or pastry brush, top with chicken and the cheeses. That’s it!  Now put the flatbreads in the oven for about 12 minutes.  Then add the tomatoes and basil to the top of the flatbreads and cook for about 5 more minutes or until the flatbreads are browned.  This recipe is really that simple.

While the flatbreads are baking, make your salad.  I am a big fan of making my own dressing because it just tastes so much better fresh.  And making salad dressing is quick and easy. It really took me longer to get all the spices out of my cupboard than it did making the dressing.  Give it a try.   This recipe is enough for a couple of salads and keeps for 3 weeks in the fridge.

This meal is so fresh and tasty you will be making this weekly.

5 from 12 votes

Print

Chicken Garlic Caprese Flatbread

Here is a simple and tasty flatbread that is perfect for a snack or a meal, Topped with tender chicken, feta and parmesan cheese, ripe tomatoes and basil make this flatbread fresh and flavorful.  

Cuisine Italian

Keyword chicken

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Ingredients

Flatbread

• 2 large flatbread enough for 4 servings
• 1 small chicken breast, or leftover or rotisserie chicken need about 1 cup chopped
• 3 tbls corn oil
• 1 tbls chopped garlic, about 3 cloves
• 1/2 cup feta cheese
• 3 tbls grated Parmesan cheese
• 1 cup cherry tomatoes, sliced
• 1/3 cup chopped basil, fresh
• pepper to taste

Italian Vinaigrette

• 1/4 cup corn oil
• 2 tbls red or white wine vinegar
• 1 tbls Parmesan cheese, grated
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 2 tsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes, dried basil, parsley, oregano, paprika mix or match herbs to taste
• fresh ground pepper to taste

Instructions

Flatbread

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees

2. Season and cook the chicken then chop into small pieces to make 1 cup.  You can also use leftover or rotisserie chicken.

3. In a small saucepan add the corn oil and the chopped garlic.  Cook of over low heat for about 5 minutes until the garlic becomes fragrant.  

4. Slice the tomatoes and chop the basil.  Mix together and add pepper to taste.

5. Place the flatbreads on a sheet pan.  Brush with the garlic oil then top with the chopped chicken and both kinds of cheese.

6. Bake for about 12 minutes, until the cheeses start to brown.  Remove the sheet pan from the oven and top with the tomato-basil mixture. Return to the oven and bake 5 minutes longer.  

7. Cut the flatbreads into fourths and serve hot from the oven.

Italian Vinaigrette

1. Mix all the vinaigrette ingredients in a jar with a tight-fitting lid. 

2. Store in the refrigerator for 3 weeks.

The highlight of this meal is sitting down at the table with my family and enjoying this delicious food.

“I feel it is important to make time to cook at home and share a meal with your family”