Breast of Chicken on Pumpkin/Cranberry Rissole with White Chocolate Balsamic Sauce and Asparagus

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Total Time:
1 hr 25 min
Prep
35 min
Cook
50 min
Yield:
6 servings
Level:
Difficult
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Ingredients

For rissole:

  • 1 small pumpkin squash or butternut squash, peeled, seeds removed and diced into 1/4-inch to 1/2-inch chunks
  • 3 large potatoes, peeled and cut into 1 inch chunks
  • 2 tablespoons grapeseed oil (as needed to saute the onion and rissole cakes, respectively)
  • 1 medium white onion, diced small
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 1/2 cup vanilla white chocolate chips (recommended: Hershey's Premier White Chips)
  • 3 scallions, white and tender green parts only, sliced on the diagonal into 1/4-inch thick slices
  • 1 cup fresh cranberries

For garnish:

  • 12 asparagus spears, tough ends snapped off
  • Salt

For sauce:

  • 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick or 1/4 cup) butter, divided
  • 1 medium onion, chopped
  • 1 cup chicken stock
  • 1 tablespoon white balsamic vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon low-sodium soy sauce
  • 1 medium potato, peeled and diced into 1/2-inch pieces (as a thickener)
  • 1/4 cup vanilla white chocolate chips (recommended: Hershey's Premier White Chips)
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper

For chicken:

  • 6 boneless chicken breasts
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 tablespoon lime peel powder or dehydrated lime peel pulverized into a powder with a mortar and pestle
  • 2 tablespoons grapeseed oil
  • 1/4 cup minced fresh fennel fronds

Directions

For the rissole cakes, boil the squash cubes for the rissole cakes until just tender, and drain well. Set aside until needed. At the same time, boil the potatoes until soft and drain well.

Begin the sauce while the squash and potatoes for the rissole are boiling. Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter over medium heat in a saucepot (reserving the other 2 tablespoons) and cook the onion until translucent. Add the chicken stock, vinegar, soy sauce, and potato chunks and let the potato chunks cook while the liquid reduces and thickens.

For the chicken, preheat oven to 375 degrees F. While the chicken stock mixture is cooking for the sauce, season chicken breasts with salt, pepper and lime powder. Heat the grapeseed oil over medium high heat in a separate large skillet and sear the chicken leaving undisturbed for the first 3 minutes or so on each side to let the seasonings integrate into the surface of the chicken and allow the caramelization process to begin to prevent tearing of the chicken or "crusting off" of the seasonings. After the chicken is seared on both sides, transfer to a baking sheet and finish chicken in the oven.

For the garnish, boil asparagus spears until just tender in salt water and set aside.

In the same pan you used to sear the chicken, heat additional grapeseed oil (if needed) and saute the white onion until tender. Transfer the onion to the potatoes which have been boiled for the rissole cakes, reserving the saute pan. Season, to taste, with salt and pepper, and mash together. Fold in the white chocolate chips, scallions, cranberries, and cubes of squash, trying not to break up the squash. Allow to sit until cool enough to handle, then use a 3-inch circle cutter to form rissole cakes. In the same pan, heat additional grapeseed oil (if needed) over medium-high heat and sear the rissole cakes. Leave undisturbed for the first 2 to 3 minutes on each side to let the caramelization process begin and to prevent the cake from breaking apart. When you see the edges of the cake beginning to turn golden brown, flip and sear the other side. Then cook further until the cake is firm. Remove from heat and keep warm.

In the same pan, sear the asparagus spears for a few minutes to add a little color and a nutty flavor.

Return to the pot of the chicken stock mixture which has been cooking for the sauce. Fold the white chocolate chips into the sauce, and transfer the sauce to a blender and puree until smooth. Whisk in the reserved 2 tablespoons butter to finish the sauce, and season to taste with salt and pepper.

Place a rissole cake on serving plate, top with a chicken breast, spoon sauce over and garnish with asparagus spears.

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  • on February 10, 2013

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    I saw the episode of Kitchen: Impossible, where this recipe was created, and was intrigued. I'm always happy to find new ways to prepare chocolate! This dish would get a 5 star rating, if the directions were better. For instance, where does the fennel come in? I assumed it coats the chicken, along with the lime --I used fine mirco planed zest. Because I'm a practiced cook, everything turned out lovely, but a novice would definately have been challenged with some of the gaps in directions. All that aside, the finished product was a huge hit with all three kids, my husband and our dinner guests!
    Note: sweet potato worked very well in place of squash/pumpkin. Just be sure not to cook it to mush; sweet potato cooks much faster than white/russet potato.

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  • on October 09, 2009

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    i tried this and though i succeded in making the dish, it was a trying feat to read and understand the instructions, they arent clear. really the instructions make it difficult, not the recipe.

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  • on January 06, 2009

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    estimation: Rissole 9oz/340 ; Sauce 4oz/117 ; Chicken 8 oz/248 ; Asparagus 3oz/20

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