Ingredients
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, 6 ounces
- Large plastic food storage bags or waxed paper
- 1 package, 10 ounces, frozen chopped spinach
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 12 small mushroom caps, crimini or button
- 2 cloves garlic, cracked
- 1 small shallot, quartered
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 cup part skim ricotta cheese
- 1/2 cup grated Parmigiano or Romano, a couple of handfuls
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh grated or ground nutmeg
- Toothpicks
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
Sauce:
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 1 cup chicken broth
Directions
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.
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By Carmenid
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on May 18, 2012
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I tweaked this recipe a little. I didn't have shallots or Ricotta cheese so I used mozzarella cheese instead. If you chop the mushrooms there is no need to use the food processor, so that's a step that you can probably skip. I seasoned the chicken with adobo and baked it instead of pan frying it and then added the sauce half way through. It was delicious and will be doing this for the next time I have guest over. Can't wait to try it with the Ricotta cheese!
By slavadia
on May 17, 2012
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I absolutely LOVE the finish product. It took me 2 hours to do but I know I can do it in 30 minutes next time since I know how to make it now. It's healthy and I want to impress my family with this recipe. I absolutely LOVE it!!!! My husband Loves it too!
By Feliciapd
Martinez, GA
on March 12, 2012
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Great. A little time consuming but worth the effort and wait. My fiance' loves it :
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