Chicken Breasts Stuffed With Asparagus

Submitted by Calee

"A nice spring time dish! Chicken breast rolled around fresh asparagus spears. Served with Lemon Rice and Hollandaise Sauce. One of my "company's coming" meals."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 15mins
• Ingredients: 16
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 4 whole chicken breasts, halved, boned and pounded (very important step, pound them)
• 24 medium asparagus spears, lightly blanched
• 1⁄4 cup butter, melted
• 1⁄4 cup Dijon mustard
• 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• 1⁄4 cup white wine
• 1 1⁄2 cups breadcrumbs
• 1 tablespoon parmesan cheese
• 2 tablespoons parsley

• Blender Hollandaise sauce

• 1 cup butter
• 4 egg yolks
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 teaspoon sugar
• 1⁄4 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
• 1⁄4 teaspoon dry mustard
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

directions

1. Prepare chicken and asparagus.
2. Combine butter, mustard, garlic and wine in a pie plate.
3. Dip the chicken breast in butter mixture to coat them.
4. Place 3 asparagus spears on each breast and roll, securing with a toothpick.
5. Mix bread crumbs, parmesan and parsley together in a different pie plate.
6. Roll chicken breasts in the bread crumb mixture.
7. Bake 30 minutes at 350.
8. I serve this with blender hollandaise sauce and lemon rice.

9. Blender Hollandaise Sauce:

10. Heat butter to a full boil, being careful not to brown.
11. Combine all other ingredients in blender with blender turned on high, slowly pour butter into yolk mixture in a thin stream until all is added.
12. Keeps well in refrigerator for several days.
13. When reheating, heat over hot (not boiling water) in top of double boiler.
14. Makes 1 1/4 cups of sauce.

Reviews

[lilshe]

I wish I could give this more than 5 stars!!

 

[heatherlynn23]

This was a great recipe! I will definately make it again! I used a mock hollandaise recipe because I'm pregnant and it wasn't the greatest sauce, but dinner was fabulous! Thanks!

 

[Chef at Heart]

I had a lot of people over on mother's day and this was the main dish I served. Everyone loved it!!! Thanks for the recipe.

 

[lazyme]

Yum! These are good. The seasonings are just right and the hollandaise sauce makes the perfect compliment. Thanks calee.