Pechugas de pollo rellenas (Stuffed chicken breasts)

Stuffed chicken breasts appear frequently on Spanish menus and in their cookery books, and whilst this recipe (created by my husband) is not necessarily typical, it does have Spanish elements.

Surprisingly though, it does not contain garlic.

Pechugas de pollo rellenas (Stuffed chicken breasts)

Pechugas de pollo rellenas, with new potatoes, quails eggs, ensaladilla rusa and a salad of cherry tomatoes, Chantenay carrots, lettuce and cucumber.
Servings:	Serves 4
Calories per serving:	270
Ready in:	40 minutes + cooling time
Prep. time:	15 minutes
Cook time:	25 minutes
Difficulty:
Recipe author:	JuliaBalbilla
First published:	23rd October 2012

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Ingredients

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• 4 plump chicken breasts, skinned and boned
• Olive oil
• 100 g Serrano ham
• Half a green pepper, diced
• 4 medium mushrooms, diced
• 4 spring onions, whites only, diced
• 2 tablespoons pimentón de la Vera dulce (sweet smoked paprika)
• Cocktail sticks

Method

1. Soak some cocktail sticks in hot water.
2. Slit the chicken breasts in half horizontally, but not completely - see how to butterfly a chicken breast.
3. Open the breast and bash with a meat mallet.
4. On one side of each of the open breasts, place a slice of Serrano ham and rub a dab of olive oil over the ham.
5. Place the diced vegetables on top of the ham.
6. Mix the paprika with the remaining olive oil and dab over the vegetables.
7. Place a further slice of Serrano ham on top of the vegetables.
8. Fold the other half of the chicken breast and using the cocktail sticks pin the open sides together.
9. Heat some oil in a shallow pan and gently fry the breasts on both sides until golden.
10. Transfer them to a roasting tin and bake in a preheated oven 190 C/375 F/Gas 5 for 25 minutes.
11. Allow to go completely cold, remove the cocktail sticks and cut the breasts into 1½ cm slices.

Serving suggestions

Goes nicely with small new potatoes, and salad.

Chef's notes

This is quite a healthy dish, but to make it even healthier, you can put them straight into the oven without searing. Also you can use a rack in the roasting tin. However, you will need to lengthen the cooking time.

--JuliaBalbilla 15:47, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

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