Chicken in red wine and grape sauce (Italian)

When I saw this recipe for chicken cooked in a lovely red wine and red grapes sauce, with Italian seasonings like basil and pesto (also red, to match the rest of the sauce) I thought it to be quite special and worth trying. And I wasn't wrong. :)
Recipe a bit adapted from: Radu.

Last year: Bagula (Fava, garlic and dill salad) (Egyptian) (vegan).
Two years ago: Carrot, ginger and orange soup (vegan).
Three years ago: Banana-hazelnut-honey smoothie (vegan).
Four years ago: Sticky sweet and sour chicken wings.


Ingredients (serves 2-3):

• 300 g chicken breast (or 4 leg halves)
• 4 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 red onion
• 2 garlic cloves
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 tablespoon red pesto
• 150 ml red wine
• 150 ml chicken stock
• 70 g red grapes
• salt and pepper
• basil (about 1/2 of a handful, fresh)

Cut the chicken meat into pieces, season it with salt and pepper and gently fry it in the olive oil.

Stir and turn once in a while until they're fried all over. Remove the meat and place on a plate, leaving the oil in the pan. Add the minced onion, some more salt and pepper and the red pesto to the pan:

Saute the onion in the pesto sauce on low heat for 3-4 minutes until softened. Add the minced garlic and continue for 2 minutes. Add the wine, the stock and the bay leaves and bring the mixture to a boil, then add the chicken pieces to it:

Cover and let it boil on low heat for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, pick the grapes and cut each round in half. After the 15 minutes are up and the sauce is reduced add the torn basil leaves and the grapes:

Stir and cook for another 2 minutes just to get the grapes heated up. Remove from the heat, transfer to plates and dig in! :)