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Bacon Wrapped Chicken Breasts 

CATEGORIES: Dinner, Chicken

Ingredients

  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 4 cloves garlic, crushed, peeled and chopped
  • 150-200g mushrooms, sliced
  • 125-150g frozen spinach, thawed
    about 100g feta, crumbled
  • ½ tspn salt
  • pepper to taste
  • 4 medium-sized (about 1kg total) boneless, skinless chicken breasts
  • 8 rashers streaky bacon
  • 4 tspn truffle or porcini infused olive oil
 

Method

Serves 4

Preheat the oven to 200°C. Heat the oil in a medium-sized non-stick pan. Add the garlic and mushrooms. Cook over a moderate heat, stirring frequently, until the mushrooms have softened, then remove from the heat.

Squeeze most of the liquid from the spinach and stir it into the mushroom mixture. Add the crumbled feta, salt and pepper to taste and stir to combine.

Place the chicken breasts skin-side down on a board, then from the side, cut a pocket into the middle of each. Stuff as much of the spinach mixture into the pocket as you can (depending on the size of the breasts and the size of the pockets you may have some filling left). Wrap each breast up in two rashers of the bacon, using these to hold the pocket shut.

Place the wrapped chicken on in a teflon or baking paper lined roasting
pan, drizzle each one with a teaspoon of infused oil and bake for 30 - 35 minutes or until the bacon is golden brown.

Serve with Garlicky Roast Potatoes and lightly cooked vegetables or a salad.

 

Simon says

Although there are several steps involved in this recipe, none of them are complicated and the end results are well worth the effort. In fact, this dish makes a good 'dinner party' main, because all the preparation can be done in advance.

 

From 'Fast & Fantastic Food', by Simon Holst

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