Jalapeño Chicken Roulade
- The Rainbow Team
- May 25, 2015
- 2 min read
Serves 4
Carb Status: GREEN
Ingredients:
4 free-range chicken breasts
8 rashers of streaky bacon
1 – 2 whole finger-sized jalapeno peppers (depending on preferred heat)
1 clove garlic
2 Tbl cream cheese
1/2 cup grated mozzarella
1 Tbl butter
Salt & pepper to taste
Method:
– Preheat the oven to 180C.
– Lay your chicken breasts out on a chopping board, and using a mallet or a rolling pin, gently bash them flat and even in thickness. Aim for a gentle spank rather than obliterating them into smithereens all over the chopping board. Somewhere between about a pinky finger thickness, not too thin otherwise they will tear, but not too thick otherwise they won’t fold into parcels very easily.
I use a rolling pin with a sandwich bag over it to save the hassle of disinfecting it after all the raw chicken bashing.
– Line a baking tray with tin foil, and lay out your flattened chicken breasts, seasoning with salt and pepper on both sides.
– Chop up the jalapeno chillies and mince the garlic, and keep separate if you want to add an individual amount of chilli or omit completely.
– In a mixing bowl combine the cream cheese, grated mozzarella, butter and salt & pepper and mix well with a fork until it forms a chunky paste.
– OK, so I used a spoon…
– I added my chilli and garlic straight into the mix because in this house nobody gets a choice – “you eata ze chilli or you leava ze house!” I’m kind and considerate that way…
– Next spoon the cheesy mixture into the middle of the chicken breast and press into a compact shape. Spread the desired amount of chilli and garlic over the cheese mix, or omit the chilli for those that don’t like things spicy. Ag, shame.
– Roll up the chicken into a parcel. There all snug as a bug in… er, a piece of raw chicken.
– Using two pieces of bacon wrap around the chicken to enclose the filling and make a parcel.
– Place the chicken parcels back onto the baking tray, and bake in the preheated oven for 30 – 40 minutes, or until the bacon is crispy and the chicken is cooked through.
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