Chicken Roll-Ups With Goat Cheese and Arugula
"Simple recipe from Everyday Food October 2005."
photo by anniesnomsblog
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 lbs chicken breasts, cutlets (8 cutlets)
- coarse salt
- pepper
- 1 bunch arugula, stems trimmed
- 3 ounces soft fresh goat cheese, broken into small pieces
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
directions
- Preheat oven to 425°.
- Season chicken with salt and pepper.
- On a clean work surface, lay cutlets flat (smooth sides down).
- Dividing ingredients evenly, layer each cutlet with arugula; top with crumbled goat cheese in the center.
- Starting with the narrow end, roll up chicken tightly; seal with a toothpick.
- In a large nonstick ovenproof skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat.
- Place chicken in pan, seam side down, and cook until until golden brown, 1 to 2 minutes.
- Turn chicken over.
- Transfer skillet to oven. Cook until chicken is opaque throughout, 10 to 12 minutes.
- Remove toothpicks, and slice chicken crosswise before serving, if desired.
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Reviews
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Delicious! I rarely use goats cheese and now I don't know why because it's super creamy and made these roll ups taste amazing!! Love the contrast with the peppery arugula as well; these disappeared very fast! -
Gorgeous! I bought a Goat cheese round (fits in 2 hands) with cracked black pepper crusted on the top. This was very sharp/astringent so I used a lot of rocket (aragula); I was also liberal with the cheese & was afraid it would ooze so I made foil nests/like a basket & 3 cocktail sticks each (I keep toothpicks in the bathroom lol), but leaving plenty of chicken exposed to brown; had already bashed them to make escalopes as I find they roll better then. I served with extra rocket & a salad as good as I could get like the lovely picture! Also had new potatoes & just a light French dressing. I wouldn't have thought of cooking rocket as I think of it as salad, but I remember now, that years ago, we knew a Thai family & they always cooked it! (that was years before rocket started appearing in British shops) -
This was amazingly simple and delicious, thanks for sharing! -
this was really good, and my husband LOVED it. i served it alongside a soup he requested, and he ended up going for seconds on the chicken and not the soup.
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My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
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