Chicken Gorgonzola Roulades Recipes

CRANBERRY-GORGONZOLA STUFFED CHICKEN

Steps:

• Flatten chicken to 1/4-in. thickness. In a small bowl, combine cheese and cranberries. Spoon 1/4 cup cheese mixture down the center of each chicken breast. Roll up and secure with toothpicks., Place walnuts and parsley in a food processor; cover and process until ground. Transfer to a shallow bowl; stir in the bread crumbs, salt and pepper. In another shallow bowl, combine eggs and mustard. Place flour in a third shallow bowl. Coat chicken with flour, then dip in egg mixture and coat with walnut mixture., Place seam side down in a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until a thermometer reads 170°. Discard toothpicks.

CHICKEN GORGONZOLA ROULADES WITH SPICY RED PEPPER SAUCE

Steps:

• For Spicy Red Pepper Sauce: Place all ingredients in a blender container and process until almost smooth. Pour sauce into a medium saucepan and heat over medium-low heat to warm while preparing chicken.
• For Chicken: Gently pound chicken breasts to 1/4-inch thickness and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Turn breasts cut-side up. Place 4 basil leaves over each chicken piece, covering completely. Sprinkle 2 TB of cheese over basil.
• In a large skillet set over medium-high heat, toast the nuts until lightly browned, shaking pan occasionally, about 3 minutes. Sprinkle 1/2 TB pine nuts over each chicken piece.
• Starting at the short end, roll each chicken breast tightly in a jellyroll fashion and secure with wooden toothpicks.
• Add the olive oil to the skillet you used for the nuts. Heat over high heat, then add chicken and saute, turning frequently, for about 10 minutes or until brown on all sides.Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer for an additional 10 minutes.
• To serve, spoon Spicy Red Pepper Sauce evenly over 4 individual serving plates. Slice each chicken roll inot 1/2-inch slices and arrange, overlapping slices slightly, on top of sauce. Garnish with basil leaves.

BACON WRAPPED CHICKEN ROULADE

Steps:

• Pre-Heat oven to 350ºF.
• Dice 4 strips of bacon into small pieces and brown over medium heat in a large sauté pan.
• Once bacon pieces are browned and crisp, strain and reserve grease and add bacon bits to the work bowl of a food processor.
• Add about 1 tablespoon of bacon grease back to the sauté pan and sauté 1/3 of the mushrooms with a pinch of salt until they are browned and reduced in size by about half.
• Add the mushrooms to the food processor and repeat cooking the next third of the mushrooms same as before. Repeat until all the mushrooms are cooked and in the food processor.
• Add the croutons, egg, grated cheese, and the 1/2 teaspoon of salt and pepper to the food processor. Process until the mixture forms a smooth paste.
• Butterfly the chicken breast and lay them open on the cutting board.
• Add 1/4 of the mushroom mixture to each chicken breast.
• Roll the chicken breat around the filling and then wrap each roll with bacon.
• Secure the bacon strips with toothpicks or tuck the ends under other wraps to hold in place. You want the end product to be a tight, firm roll that will be easy to pick up with tongs.
• Brown the rolls, two at a time in the large sauté pan until the are evenly browned on all sides.
• Put the chicken roulades on a parchment lined sheet pan and bake in the oven until the chicken reaches an internal temperature of 170°F Should take about 15 minutes.

CHICKEN BACON ROULADES

Steps:

• cook bacon until lightly brown but still flexible (not crisp). remove from pan and let dry.
• Cook the shallots in the remaining bacon fat over low heat, stirring, until softened. Transfer shallots with a slotted spoon to a small bowl and leave any fat remaining in skillet. Preheat oven to 300°F.
• Place each chicken breast half between 2 sheets of plastic wrap. With smooth side of a meat pounder pound each breast to 1/8-inch thickness. Discard plastic from boned side of each breast. Sprinkle chicken with lemon pepper (or ground black pepper and a little lemon zest) and salt. Place 2 1/2 slices of bacon lengthwise (parallel with grain of flesh) along middle of each breast. Top with shallots and Parmesan. Using plastic wrap to help you, tightly roll up each breast lengthwise, tucking in the ends to enclose the filling. Secure seams with wooden toothpicks.
• Add 1 Tbsp olive oil to reserved fat in skillet and heat over medium high heat. Brown roulades on all sides, about 5 minutes total. Transfer the skillet to middle of oven and bake roulades until just cooked through, 20 to 25 minutes.
• Transfer chicken to a plate with tongs and keep warm, covered with aluminum foil. Pour off fat from skillet. (Careful! The handle is hot, use an oven mitt.) Add wine to the skillet and deglaze over medium high heat, scraping up brown bits. Boil wine until reduced to about 1 tablespoon. Add garlic and butter. Cook mixture over medium low heat, stirring, for 1 minute. Add flour and cook roux, stirring, 1 minute. Add broth and cream and bring to a boil, whisking. Simmer the sauce, whisking, 2 minutes. Pour through a fine mesh sieve into a small saucepan. Keep sauce warm. Remove the wooden toothpicks from roulades and cut crosswise into 1/2-inch slices. Spoon some sauce in center of each of 4 plates and arrange roulade slices decoratively on sauce.

CHICKEN ROULADEN

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Place the bacon in a single layer on a slotted pan set over a baking sheet and cook three-quarters of the way through. Remove and set aside. When cool enough to handle, roughly chop the bacon.
• Sprinkle the pounded out chicken breasts on both sides with salt and pepper, and spread on one side with the mustard. Place some chopped bacon, pickles, parsley and egg on top of each breast, roll tightly, and then tie in a couple places with butcher's twine to secure.
• Place a large ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat and add the olive oil. Add the rouladen to the pan and brown on all sides. Transfer the skillet to the oven and roast until the rouladen reach an internal temperature of 165 degrees F, about 20 minutes. Transfer to a plate or platter and cover loosely with foil.
• Place the skillet back on the stove over medium heat and add the butter, garlic, shallot and tomato paste; cook for a minute or two. Add the wine, stock and some more parsley and bring to a boil. Season to taste. Pour the sauce over the chicken to serve.