Pan-Roasted Chicken and Summer Vegetables with Herbes de Provence

In this simple skillet dinner, we sear just the skin side of bone-in chicken breasts, then roast them on top of a bed of sunny Mediterranean vegetables. Before cooking, the veggies are tossed with herbes de Provence, an aromatic seasoning blend that typically includes rosemary, thyme, savory, marjoram and oregano, and sometimes other spices and herbs such as fennel, sage, lavender and tarragon. Dry vermouth, with its herbaceousness, is an ideal deglazing liquid for the browned bits left in the pan after searing the chicken, but dry white wine works, too.