So we obviously know I love to cook and my best friend's favourite food is stuffed chicken breast.
Before she moved, we decided to make a quick-fix meal for her going away dinner.
We decided to make my scratch recipe for stuffed chicken breast and potato stacks, so here's how I do it! Trust me, it tastes amazing!
Stuffed Chicken Breast Recipe (scratch)
Serves 4
Ingredients:
4 boneless chicken breasts
2 1/2 cups of spinach
250g of 100% goat feta cheese (crumbled, quantity may vary by personal preference)
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp oregano
1/2 tsp sage
1/2 tsp thyme
1/2 tsp ground pepper
1/4 tsp rosemary
1/4 tsp salt
Instructions:
1. Preheat the oven to 350 F
2. Wash the spinach.
3. To make the stuffing, mix everything together. No, I'm not joking when I say mix EVERYTHING but the chicken in a mixing bowl. You may add or lessen the amount of herbs depending on your preference of flavour. Keep in mind that I never measure anything when I cook because I tend to add ingredients by eye, however, this is roughly the amount I used in my recipe (I may have put a more generous amount of oregano).
4. Take out your boneless chicken breasts and cut them as you would a loaf of bread through the middle to create what would typically mimic a sub-sandwich fold.
5. Open up the boneless chicken breast where you cut them and lay it out flat.
5. Open up the boneless chicken breast where you cut them and lay it out flat.
6. Put your stuffing on the chicken generously, fold the chicken closed over the stuffing. You can visualize what I'm trying to say a little better if you simply look at the picture of what the finished product looked like.
7. Place the chicken breasts in a baking dish, brush a layer of Olive oil over each chicken breast and season with spices/herbs/salt/pepper sparingly.
8. Bake in the oven between 35-45 min. Check the oven regularly to ensure it doesn't burn. You may think that 35 min is not long enough to bake a chicken breast, but trust me, once it exceeds 45 min, you'll have a dry as f*ck chicken.
Potato Stacks Recipe (scratch)
Ingredients:
4 Large yellow potatoes
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tsp balsamic vinegar
1/2 tsp rosemary
1/2 tsp thyme
1/2 tsp ground pepper
Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 F
2. Peel the potatoes and cut it into thin slices.
3. In a baking tray, stack the potatoes
4. Mix all the ingredients (excluding the potatoes) in a bowl.
5. Brush the mixture over the potato stacks
6. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes or until edges of stacks are golden brown.
(Try topping the stacks with a bit of crumbled feta)
Et voila!
My scratch recipe for spinach and feta stuffed chicken breast with seasoned stacked potatoes!
Bon Appetit
-czaR2D2
