Chicken Deliciousness
Author: Courtney (Title Credit: Adam)
Recipe type: Dinner
Cuisine: Healthy Comfort Food
Serves: 2
- 2 chicken fillets
- 2 frozen puff pastry sheets
- 4 oz light cream cheese
- few slices of bacon
- a handful of flat-leaf parsley (chopped)
- 1 spring onion (chopped, whites included)
- 1 egg
- pepper
- salt
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Defrost puff pastry until ⅔rds defrosted. (Ideally, you want to have some pliability, but some structure too)
- Cook bacon and pat dry on paper towels. Chop into small pieces. (see note below)
- Combine cream cheese, bacon, spring onions and parsley.
- Cut pocket in chicken breast. Ideally, you want to slice from the top middle and create a "nest" like pocket.
- Stuff each chicken breast with cream cheese mixture.
- Wrap each chicken breast in a puff pastry sheet.
- Whisk egg and brush over top of puff pastry.
- Sprinkle with salt and pepper
- Cook at 400 degrees for 30-35 minutes.
For easy perfect bacon, place bacon in a cold oven. Turn oven to 400 degrees and cook for 20 minutes. Perfect timing to complete other prep items.
Recipe by Lemons & Lunges at http://lemonsandlunges.com/2013/09/14/comfort-food-alert-chicken-deliciousness/
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