One of the first things that I took on cooking
completely of my own volition was a chicken dish that came out of one of the
first cook books that I ever owned. I think we found it in a warehouse store.
It was simply titled Italian and as I flipped through it I was enamored with
the pictures of all of these seemingly foreign types of food. I wanted to make
this food, I was ten. I brow beat my mother to help me find things we never
ate, things like prosciutto. I made the dish and was completely in love with
the process. I continued to play with the recipe until I got it down. It became
my go to dish, the dish that I would make to impress girls. So this recipe is a
continuation of that first dish. I find a certain kind of solace in playing and
tweaking dishes to make them different and hopefully better. So here we go a
little stuffed chicken breast and don’t
worry my lovelies there is bacon in it.
Bacon
Wrapped Chicken Stuffed with Basil and Goat’s Cheese to the tune of Night Moves
by Bob Seger
2 Chicken Breasts
4 strips of
Bacon
250g of
Good Goat’s Cheese
1 clove of
minced Garlic
8-10 leaves
of fresh Basil minced
Salt and
Pepper
Olive oil
-Pre heat
an oven to 350 degrees.
-Mix
together the cheese, garlic and basil. Now you have the stuffing.
-Cut a pocket
in the chicken and stuff with the cheese mixture, pinch shut, season with salt
and pepper, then wrap in the bacon tying with butchers twine to secure it.
-Heat a
cast iron skillet, add oil, and sear off the chicken. Place in the oven for
about 15-20 minutes until the juices run clear.
-Serve with
creamy polenta and pan fried zucchini and you are done. Give it a go and try to
impress members of the opposite sex.
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