Chicken Spinach Roll-Ups With Lemon Dijon Sauce
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
-
4 breasts
- Serves:
- 4
ingredients
- 2 (6 ounce) boneless skinless chicken breast halves
- kosher salt
- fresh ground black pepper
- 4 slices swiss cheese
- 4 slices black forest ham (thinly sliced)
- 1⁄2 cup Baby Spinach
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 cup chicken stock
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1⁄2 lemon, zested and juiced
- 1⁄8 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped
directions
- Halve the chicken breasts horizontally separating each into 2 cutlets.
- Place cutlets in a freezer plastic storage bag and pound into 1/8-inch thick cutlets.
- Arrange the 4 cutlets on work surface. Season cutlets with salt and pepper on the side facing up. Cover each piece of chicken with 1 slice of ham and 1 slice of cheese. At the larger end of the breast, place a small bundle of baby spinach. Tightly wrap the chicken around the ham, cheese and spinach. The rolls should stay together, but if needed, secure with a toothpick.
- Heat about 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil in a nonstick skillet over medium heat. When the oil is hot, use tongs to add the chicken roll-ups to skillet with the seam side down. Season the roll-ups with salt and pepper.
- Cover the pan loosely with tin foil and cook 4 to 5 minutes, turn roll-ups over and cook the other side 4 to 5 minutes. Remove the cooked roll ups to a serving plate. If toothpicks were used, remove the toothpicks before serving.
- Add 2 tablespoons of butter and 2 tablespoons flour to the pan used to cook the chicken, stirring well until there are no lumps.
- Slowly stir in the chicken stock, Dijon mustard, and lemon zest, scraping up any drippings from the bottom of the pan. Simmer 1 minute.
- Remove pan from the heat, add the lemon juice and parsley and spoon over chicken.
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Reviews
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Tasty recipe. What's funny is that I picked the recipe because of the lemon-dijon sauce, however, I was so anxious to get the dish onto the table, that I forgot to make up the sauce in the end. Regardless the chicken roll-ups were delicious. Otherwise the only change I made was that I cooked the chicken longer to ensure it was done. Also, next time I will cut back the amount of salt I used. I can't wait to make this again (with the sauce), thanks for sharing.