Garlic Brown Sugar Chicken with Green Beans

E & I made this for dinner last night after pseudo-running our first 5K. It was pretty easy to make, and it was delicious!

We started on the green beans first, because they have to bake in the oven. Once the green beans were in the oven, we started on the chicken. We timed it pretty well. The green beans were done about 3 or 4 minutes before the chicken. Not too bad :)

E's Green Beans:

Ingredients

• Fresh green beans (rinsed and trimmed)
• Sea salt
• Olive oil

Directions
1) Preheat oven to 400 degrees
2) Place green beans on a baking sheet and drizzle with olive oil. Stir/shake so all of the green beans are coated.
3) Add sea salt, and stir/shake again.
4) Bake for about 20 minutes. After they have been in the oven for about 10 minutes, shake/stir them.

Garlic Brown Sugar Chicken

Ingredients

• 4 tsp of brown sugar
• 12 oz of boneless, skinless chicken breasts (probably about 4 breasts)
• 1 or 2 cloves of garlic
• 2 TBSP of salted butter
• Salt (to taste)
• Pepper (to taste)
• 1/2 cup of chicken broth

Directions
1) Melt the butter in a pan (we used a non non-stick pan - if that makes sense)
2) Brown the garlic in the butter
3) Add chicken breasts to garlic and butter and cook thoroughly, adding salt and pepper.
4) When chicken is fully cooked, add chicken broth and then scrape up the brown bits.
5) Add brown sugar on top of each breast (1 tsp per breast)
6) Allow the brown sugar to melt into the chicken (about 5 minutes)
7) Serve with green beans