Chicken Breast Stuffed With Smoked Salmon With Cheese and Salmon

Submitted by Colin Cartledge

"This is a really simple, really impressive dish"

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 4 large chicken breasts
• 4 slices smoked salmon

• For the sauce

• 500 ml milk
• 50 g butter
• 25 g flour
• 75 g cheese
• 100 g smoked salmon, trimmings
• 1⁄2 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
• fresh ground black pepper

directions

1. Preheat oven to 190°C.
2. Make a deep cut into each chicken breast and insert a slice of smoked salmon.
3. Place on greased baking tray and place in preheated oven for 30 minutes.
4. When the chicken has been in the oven for about 15 minutes, start to prepare the sauce.
5. Mix the flour and butter together and put in a pan on gentle heat for one minute then gradually add the milk and whisk to remove any lumps.
6. When all the milk has been added and any lumps whisked out add the smoked salmon and stir till well mixed. then add the nutmeg and black pepper to taste.
7. When the sauce begins to thicken to the required consistency and the cheese and stir in till melted.
8. I normally serve this with only a little sauce on the plate with baby veg. taking the remaining sauce to the table so guest can help themselves, and it all goes.
9. Enjoy.

Reviews

[Stranger]

The best!!!