Video recipe: Stuffed chicken breast
Stuffed with a cream cheese and watercress filling, these bacon-wrapped chicken breasts are too tasty for words. From our sister magazine, Woman's Weekly.
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Prep time: 10 mins
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Cooking time: 30 mins
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Total time: 40 mins
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Serves: 4
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Skill level: Easy peasy
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Costs: Cheap as chips
Ingredients
Woman's Weekly cookery editor Sue McMahon says: There are a variety of claims about the health benefits of watercress, ranging from research that indicates it can help prevent certain cancers, to suggestions that eating a bag of watercress can be a hangover cure. All of this stems from the fact that it's packed full of vitamins and minerals - it's sometimes called a 'natural superfood'.
- 1 large bunch of watercress, trimmed
- 200g carton full-fat cream cheese
- Salt and ground black pepper
- 4 skinless chicken breasts
- 8 rashers pancetta
- 2tbsp olive oil
Method
- Set the oven to gas mark 6 or 200°C.
- Reserve 4 sprigs of watercress for garnish, then place the rest of watercress, the cream cheese and seasoning into a food processor and whizz until smooth. Or, chop the watercress finely and beat it into the cream cheese, with seasoning.
- Use a rolling pin to beat each chicken breast between 2 pieces of cling film, to double it in width.
- Divide the cream-cheese mixture between chicken breasts, then roll chicken up to encase filling, with the join underneath. Wrap 2 pieces of pancetta around each chicken breast.
- Place chicken in a small roasting tin and brush with olive oil. Bake in the centre of the oven for 25-30 mins, or until juices run clear when the chicken is pierced with a fine skewer.
- Remove from oven and slice each breast into 3 or 4. Serve with boiled new potatoes and salad, garnished with the reserved watercress. (Not suitable for freezing).
By Sue McMahon
Nutritional information per portion
- Calories 577(kcal)
- Fat 45.0g
- Saturates 21.0g
This nutritional information is only a guide and is based on 2,000 calories per day. For more information on eating a healthy diet, please visit the Food Standards Agency website.
Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.
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jayprime, posted 5 months ago
The Watercress stuffed chicken breast is absolutely superb using soft goats cheese (e.g. Capricorn) instead of the Cream Cheese. Mix this with fresh crushed black peppercorns and chopped Watercress, and forget the salt. Also, wrap with bacon instead of the Pancetta. Also wonderful served with New potatoes, Asparagus and Broccoli.
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Claire Diamond, posted 6 months ago
45g of fat per *serving*?! Are you sure...?
