Spinach Mushroom Stuffed Chicken Recipes

Steps:

• Place breasts in the center of a plastic food storage bag or 2 large sheets of waxed paper. Pound out the chicken from the center of the bag outward using a heavy-bottomed skillet or mallet. Be firm but controlled with your strokes.
• Defrost spinach in the microwave. Transfer spinach to a kitchen towel. Twist towel around spinach and wring it out until very dry. Transfer to a medium-mixing bowl.
• Place a nonstick skillet over moderate heat. When skillet is hot, add butter, mushrooms, garlic and shallot. Season with salt and pepper and saute 5 minutes. Transfer mushrooms, garlic and shallot to the food processor. Pulse to grind the mushrooms and transfer to the mixing bowl, adding the processed mushrooms to the spinach. Add ricotta and grated cheese to the bowl and the nutmeg. Stir to combine the stuffing. Return your skillet to the stove over medium high heat.
• Place a mound of stuffing on each breast and wrap and roll breast over the stuffing. Secure breasts with toothpicks. Add 3 tablespoons oil to the pan, 3 turns of the pan. Add breasts to the pan and brown on all sides, cooking chicken 10 to 12 minutes. The meat will cook quickly because it is thin. Remove breasts; add butter to the pan and flour. Cook butter and flour for a minute, whisk in wine and reduce another minute. Whisk in broth and return breasts to the pan. Reduce heat and simmer until ready to serve. Remove toothpicks. Serve breasts whole or, remove from pan, slice on an angle and fan out on dinner plates. Top stuffed chicken breasts or sliced stuffed breasts with generous spoonfuls of the sauce.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Butter a 9x13 inch baking dish with 2 tablespoons butter.
• Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, crumble and set aside.
• Place frozen spinach in a medium saucepan with 1/4 cup water. Bring water to a boil, then reduce heat to medium and cook spinach covered 10 minutes. Uncover and stir. Remove from heat and drain.
• Remove stems from mushrooms. Arrange caps in the baking dish. Finely chop stems.
• Melt 3 tablespoons butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat, and mix in onion and garlic. Cook 5 minutes, or until tender, then mix in bacon, spinach, chopped mushroom stems and heavy cream. Bring cream to a boil. Remove from heat and mix in Parmesan cheese, salt and pepper.
• Stuff mushroom caps generously with the mixture. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons melted butter. Bake in the preheated oven 30 minutes until lightly browned.

Steps:

• You will also need: large plastic food storage bags or waxed paper.
• Place breasts in the center of a plastic food storage bag or between 2 sheets of waxed paper.
• Pound out the chicken from the center of the bag outward with a mallet or a heavy skillet.
• Be firm and controlled with your strokes.
• Defrost spinach in the microwave.
• Transfer spinach to a kitchen or a piece of cheese cloth.
• Twist towel around spinach and wring it out until the spinach is very dry.
• Transfer the spinach to a medium size mixing bowl.
• Place a non-stick skillet over medium heat.
• When skillet is hot, add the butter, mushrooms, garlic and shallot.
• Season with salt and pepper, and saute 5 minutes.
• Transfer mushrooms, garlic and shallot to a food processor.
• Pulse to grind the mushrooms, and transfer to the mixing bowl, adding the processed mushrooms to the spinach.
• Add ricotta and grated cheese and nutmeg to the bowl.
• Stir to combine the stuffing.
• Return the skillet to the stove over medium-high heat.
• Place a mound of stuffing on each breast, and wrap and roll breast over the stuffing.
• Secure breasts with toothpicks.
• Add 3 Tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil to the skillet.
• Add breasts to the skillet and brown on all sides, about 10 to 12 minutes.
• The chicken will cook quickly, because it is thin.
• Remove breasts.
• Add butter and flour to the skillet.
• Cook butter and flour 1 minute.
• Whisk in the wine and reduce for another minute.
• Whisk in the chicken broth, and then return the breasts to the skillet.
• Reduce the heat and simmer until ready to serve.
• Remove the toothpicks.
• Serve the breasts either whole, or slice on an angle and fan out on the dinner plates.
• Top the stuffed chicken breasts or sliced stuffed chicken breasts with generous spoonfuls of the sauce.

Steps:

• Boil the kettle, tip the mushrooms into a small bowl, pour over boiling water to just cover, then leave to soak for 15 mins. Drain and squeeze out the mushrooms (save and freeze the liquid to make a base for a gravy) and roughly chop.
• Heat the oil in a frying pan and gently cook the shallots and garlic for 3 mins. Turn up the heat, throw in the mushrooms and cook for a few mins more. Add the spinach, turn the heat up to high and cook until wilted and all the liquid has evaporated. Tip into a bowl and leave to cool. Beat in the cheeses and season with loads of pepper and a little salt. Set aside.
• Take the chicken breasts and remove the small fillet from the back. Cut a slit into the side of each chicken breast then stuff each one with a quarter of the spinach mixture, closing it with the cut-off fillet. Carefully wrap each stuffed chicken breast in a slice of prosciutto and chill until needed. Can be prepared up to a day ahead.
• To cook, heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Line up the chicken on a baking tray and roast for 20-25 mins until the prosciutto is frazzled at the edges, the cheese is oozing out and the chicken is cooked through.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Heat 1 tablespoon of the olive oil. Saute mushrooms, onions, and garlic for 4 minutes. Add spinach and wine cook until wine is evaporated.
• Season with thyme, rosemary, salt, and pepper and allow to cool.
• Place chicken between plastic wrap and pound thin.
• Season both sides of breast with salt and pepper.
• Add egg to stuffing and place half the stuffing in each breast.
• Fold over to encase stuffing and tie with butcher's twine to hold the stuffing in place.
• Dredge each of the chicken breast with the flour.
• Heat butter and the last 1 tablespoon of oil in a pan.
• Brown chicken on all sides 5-10 minutes.
• Place into a hot oven for 15 minutes.
• Remove string before serving.