photo: kate-grigoryeva.livejournal.com Stuffed chicken breasts wrapped in prosciutto

Stuffed chicken breasts wrapped in prosciutto

This dish can become a wonderful complement to a festive table, moreover, it is quite simple to prepare and at a desire you can fantasize a sea of options based on this recipe for instance, we will make breasts stuffed with spinach, sun dried tomatoes and pine nuts. If you dont like spinach, you can replace it by other greens. Or you can change everything and stuff prosciutto with fried in butter mushrooms with herbs and feta, or you can use olives, capers, boiled vegetables for stuffing, etc. The thin slices of prosciutto that wrap the breasts make the meat juicy and delicious and the appearence of the dish appetizing.


Ingredients

  • Spinach
    300 g
  • Sun-dried tomatoes
    - to taste
  • Pine nuts
    - to taste
  • Salt
    - to taste
  • Black pepper
    - to taste
  • Vegetable oil
    - to taste
  • Chicken breast
    4 pcs
  • Prosciutto
    150 g
  • Thyme
    - to taste



Steps

  • 1. Wash spinach, dry and chop the leaves with a knife.
  • 2. Cook for about five minutes in a small amount of vegetable oil, do not forget to salt.
  • 3. Roughly chop sun-dried tomatoes.
  • 4. Mix in a bowl the spinach, tomatoes, a tablespoon of oil out of the jar with tomatoes and pine nuts.
  • 5. Rub the chicken breasts with salt and pepper on all sides.
  • 6. Cut each breast as if making "pockets".
  • 7. Fill the pockets with the stuffing.
  • 8. Roll each breast into the prosciutto slices.
  • 9. Spread sprigs of thyme on a baking sheet and bake in the upper third of the oven at 180 ° C for 20-30 minutes.