Cooking with Platypus - Proscuttio wrapped chicken breast with blue cheese and rice

[platypus]

Proscuttio wrapped chicken breast with blue cheese and rice

Preparation time
~15 minutes

Cooking time
~30 minutes

This is for two people. Apologies for the camera "work", taken on a poor phone camera.

Ingredients

• Two Chicken Breasts (I used 3 because I'm a greedy bugger)
• 6 slices of proscuttio
• Blue cheese (I used St Agur)
• Rice (I used wholegrain)
• 2 Carrots
• Peas

Method
Firstly, soften the rice by placing the desired amount in water in the pan, and finely chop the carrots.

Set aside.

Pre-heat your oven to 180°C.


Taking a sharp knife, cut the chicken breast in two, being careful not to cut all the way through, so you can fold out the breast. Place the cheese inside:

Next, wrap the breasts in the proscuttio:

Bring the rice to the boil and then simmer for 20-25 minutes. At the same time, place the chicken breasts into the pre-heated oven.

Bring the carrots to the boil five minutes later and simmer for 15-20 minutes, adding the peas with ~3 minutes to go.

Serve with a light red wine, or in my case, water .

 

[Tom0]

Looks goooood , my mouth isn't watering at all.

Pre-heat the oven to what temperature?

Edit: Oh 180c, just spotted it

 

[The Dread Pirate]

Mmmm unexplained chicken recepie! *drools*

 

[oli collett]

nooooo, not boiled carrots! cook them in oil! Chicken looks good though.

 

[Col_M]

I used to dislike blue cheese now I love it, looks good enough for me to try something similar

 

[mcalladine]

wow thanks for that keep the posts up

 

[DampCat]

At 10am Sir?

 

[Guerrilla]

Looks well nice!...making me pretty hungry in fact.

Not too keen on blue cheese but don't mind it so much when its an ingredient.

 

[platypus]

At 10am Sir?

It was last nights dinner. The missus liked it an awful lot, so I didn't really have opportunity to post the thread.. .

 

[Tom0]

 

[y2viks]

looks nice mate. What do you recommend to stuff it with if someone's not a big fan of blue cheese?

bit of Red Leicester?

 

[Cosimo]

That looks extremely tasty, blue cheese nom nom.

 

[platypus]

looks nice mate. What do you recommend to stuff it with if someone's not a big fan of blue cheese?

bit of Red Leicester?

Not sure to be honest. The blue cheese compliments the chicken so well. You could try a milder cheese, dolce latte for example?

 

[zootfloot]

Looks tasty enough, but where is the moisture?

Or is the chicken and rice moist enough without the requirement of a sauce of some kind?

 

[philjohn]

I do something similar, but with streaky bacon, and the blue cheese made up into a sauce with cream and smothered on after cooking, will have to try the proscuttio route next time.

 

[oli collett]

Looks tasty enough, but where is the moisture?

Or is the chicken and rice moist enough without the requirement of a sauce of some kind?

Well as long as you don't completely overcook the chicken, you've got the melted cheese and the fat from the proscuttio

 

[z0mbi3]

I did something kind of similar last night, except it was a "use up what's there" scenario. Flattened two chicken breasts, covered one side of each in cream cheese, seasoned with pepper and basil, rolled them both up (so that the cream cheese was on the inside) and wrapped them in three slices of bacon each. Baked for 45 mins at 175c, served with boiled carrots, peas and sweet corn.

 

[platypus]

Looks tasty enough, but where is the moisture?

Or is the chicken and rice moist enough without the requirement of a sauce of some kind?

As Oli said, just don't overcook it and its lovely .

 

[dannyjo22]

Not sure to be honest. The blue cheese compliments the chicken so well. You could try a milder cheese, dolce latte for example?

I like it with a Brie or Port Salut instead. I prefer the creamy cheese to the blue cheese.

 

[mcalladine]

whens the next recipie coming platypus ? did you just make this up as you went along or way it off the inet or something ? thanks