Chicken Mozzarella
"A delicious chicken parcel with wine pesto sauce. Found this in an outdoor kitchen cookbook."
photo by ncmysteryshopper
- Ready In:
- 22mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 4 chicken fillets
- 4 slices mozzarella cheese
- 4 slices ham
- 1⁄4 cup pesto sauce
- 30 g butter
- 1⁄4 cup chives, chopped
- 1⁄2 cup chicken stock
- 1 tablespoon pesto sauce, extra
- 1⁄4 cup sun-dried tomato, chopped
- 2 teaspoons cornflour
- 2 teaspoons water
directions
- Cut a pocket into the side of each chicken fillet & insert cheese & ham & spread with pesto.
- Melt butter in a pan & cook chicken over a medium heat for approx 5 mins each side or until cooked through.
- Remove chicken & keep warm.
- Add chives, wine & stock to the pan & simmer 3 mins, add pesto & tomatoes.
- Combine cornflour & water & add to sauce, simmer until thickened slightly.
- Spoon sauce over chicken to serve.
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Reviews
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Some of my favorite flavors: Wine, sundried tomatoes, pesto, cheese.....how can you go wrong? I used 1/3 cup chardonnay like previous reviewers and felt it was a good amount. Next time I would increase the pesto, probably double it. Thanks for sharing! -
I enjoyed it, but DH didn't care for it. I used 1/3 cup chardonnay. I took a guess as it's not listed in the ingredients and it seemed like a good wine and amount. This dish is flavorful, but the flavors seem to compete with each other. There's enough flavor in the meat-cheese-pesto pockets that a complex sauce was just overkill. I think DH actually would have liked it better if I had just left out the chives and sun-dried tomatoes. I also think I'd cut back on the butter if I make this again. There was enough oil in my pesto that the sauce got kind of greasy and the butter would be the easiest place to cut back on the unnecessary fat. Thanks for sharing. I probably will make it again with some adjustments. -
This was FAB!!!! Everyone really enjoyed this dish! I followed the recipe exactly, except the amount for the wine is not listed.... so I added what I felt was a good amount of Vermouth! About 1/3 of a cup! Thanks Mandy! -
This is absolutely astounding. really enjoyed the flavours. For ham I used proscutto and I made the pesto sauce from scratch. I also used wheat free flour instead of cornflour for the sauce. Absolutely delicious. Can't recommend it highly enough!
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Melbourne I live on a 5 acre property in the Dandenong Ranges Victoria, Australia, having moved from the burbs when I became pregnant with my now 15 year old daughter Alyssa.
Once my daughter was born I became a stay at home mum as I couldn't bear the thought of putting her in daycare. She is the light of my life, I never imagined myself as a mum when younger but now wouldn't have it any other way. Alyssa was made a big sister on the 19th April 2010 when our cheeky little boy Blake was born. I love cooking and experimenting with new recipes so quickly become addicted to Zaar as it was previously known & still use it regularly. In addition to being my kids taxi :lol: I also spend my time, reading, gardening and of course shopping. I'm lucky enough that we have the space & so love growing our own fruits, vegies & herbs, this also means we have plenty of room for animals & at the moment have 2 dogs, Max, a Jackshund who's 6, Fletcher, a Kelpie who's 4, 6 cats Snowpea, Fergus, Ginger, Tango, Annie & Cookie, 4 chooks & 2 Ducks.
As well as our pets, we also have a lot of native animals around our area, we have kangaroos, wombats, echidna's, possums as well as rosella's, galah's & Cockatoo's hence the name of where I live..
