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Stuffed Chicken Covered In Pesto Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Trik / All my dishes 1 year, 3 months ago This dish is an excellent chicken stuffed with mozzarella cheese, portobella mushrooms and garlic covered with a garlic-basil pesto and served with slice of tomato all made from scratch! Prep:15m Cook:30m Servings:3	Trik
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Ingredients

2 Portobellas

3 pieces of thin, boneless chicken breast (around 1-2 lb total)

1 cup extra virgin olive oil

1 cup of mozzarella cheese

1 clove of garlic

3 tablespoon of butter

2 cups of Basil

3 table spoons of yogurt (pref: fat free)

1 table spoon hot water

10 tooth picks per chicken serving

1/2 cup of parmesan cheese

1/4 cup of walnuts (as finely chopped or grated in processor as possible)

3 table spoons of oregano

1 tomato

Sea Salt and ground pepper to taste

Directions

To Prepare the Chicken:

Take the chicken and make sure it is thinly sliced, boneless and ribless. Find the easiest way to fold the chicken and prepare to do so and hold with one hand while puncturing with the other. place a small piece of garlic clove, 1/3 cup of mozzarella cheese and about 1/2 a chopped portobella in the middle of the chicken fold. Fold the chicken and seal it shut with toothpicks. (To insure nothing spills while cooking make sure you can not see any of the stuffing after putting in the toothpicks).

To Cook the Chicken:

Place chicken on (not in) foil in an open baking pan and broil for 11-13 min on each side (yes literally flip them over after 11 min) It is also good to take your chicken out in the first 2-4 min to make sure your toothpicks are holding etc...

To Prepare the Pesto:

Finely chop up the basil, walnut, garlic, and parmesan if not already done

Combine the basil, walnut, oil, parmesan, and yogurt in food processor.

Add a TEASPOON of garlic clove, half a table spoon of oregano, some salt and pepper into the pesto and process again. Taste the pesto, some people like a lot of garlic, you can always add more (but go easy!)

To serve:

Remove the chicken from the pan, the toothpicks from the chicken, cut in half across the shorter side of the chicken so the absolute middle can be seen. Lay a slice of tomato on each half of chicken and cover just the top portion of the chicken (always leave some tomato exposed). also good to serve with my next recipe which is a portobella side dish

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Comments

coffeebean53 1 year, 3 months ago said:
Looks wonderful. Bookmarked to try.

chefmeow 1 year, 3 months ago said:
I also have it bookmarked. Sounds decadent.

psy333che 1 year, 3 months ago said:
I have a lot of basil right now and about to make up a big batch of pesto so this could be a perfect recipe for me right now Thank You

krumkake 1 year, 3 months ago said:
That looks and sounds delish - great post...thank you for sharing this one!

joanilynn 1 year, 1 month ago said:
I love this....sounds fresh and delicious. I'm heading to the farmer's market Saturday and these ingredients will definitely be on my list.

sunny 7 months ago said:
Great recipe

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