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Chicken Roulade Stuffed with Spinach and Parmesan
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Chicken Roulade Stuffed with Spinach and Parmesan

An elegant chicken roulade stuffed with green spinach and salty Parmesan — it looks impressive on the plate and takes no effort

⏱ 55 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Mediterranean👩‍🍳 Afoona🧩 2 parts

👨‍🍳 Method

To assemble

  1. 1
    Preheat the oven to 190°C (375°F).
    ⚙ Preheating the OvenOven
    💡Put things in the oven only once it's reached temperature, after the heating light has gone off: an oven that hasn't reached temperature changes baking times, and the bake burns outside or stays underbaked.
  2. 2
    Heat part of the olive oil and fry the garlic until fragrant.
    ⚙ Pan-fryingStoveFrying pan
  3. 3
    Add the spinach and fry, until it shrinks. Let cool.
    ⚙ Adding to the hot fat and fryingStove
    💡Wet vegetables make the dough soggy from the inside: fry or squeeze the spinach until no liquid is left, and cool before mixing with the cheese.
    💡Add by cooking time: what needs long (onion, carrot, meat) goes in first, and what burns fast (garlic, dry spices) goes in last, only until fragrant.
  4. 4
    In a bowl, mix the spinach, cream cheese and Parmesan, and season with salt and black pepper.
    Bowl
  5. 5
    Place each breast between two plastic bags and pound it into a rectangle.
    Meat mallet
  6. 6
    Place the filling on the chicken, roll up tightly and tie with kitchen twine.
    Kitchen twine
  7. 7
    Sprinkle the chicken with the salt.
  8. 8
    Heat the olive oil in a skillet and brown the chicken on all sides about 5 minutes.
    ⚙ Pan-fryingStoveFrying pan
    💡What you brown (meat, patties, schnitzel) goes into hot oil: in lukewarm oil it soaks it up and comes out greasy. For onion and garlic that you soften, oil heated over medium or low heat is enough; do not wait for it to smoke.
  9. 9
    Transfer the chicken to a baking dish.
    Baking pan
  10. 10
    Roast the chicken in a hot oven (190°C / 375°F) 25–30 minutes, until the center reaches 75°C (165°F).
    ⚙ Oven roastingOvenBaking pan
  11. 11
    Let the chicken rest 5 minutes, slice and serve.
    KnifeCutting board
425calories
54 gprotein
2 gcarbs
21 gfat
● protein 52%● carbs 2%● fat 46%

Per serving (292 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (8) · 🍳 2 cooking vessels

  • Oven · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Toaster oven (Fits one small pan; good for small batches) · Air fryer (Small batches only, no runny batters) · Pot (Only for covered stews on the stovetop, no browning on top)
  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Frying pan · Also works: Wok (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (High sides, slow evaporation and weak browning)
  • Baking pan · Also works: Glass / ovenproof baking dish (None) · Disposable pan (None)
  • Cutting board · Also works: Plate (Large plate, dulls the knife)
  • Knife · Also works: Food processor (Fast, less control over size) · Kitchen shears (For herbs/dough)
  • Meat mallet · Also works: Rolling pin (Rolling pin or heavy pot, between plastic sheets)
  • Bowl · Also works: Pot (None)

🧻 Consumables: Kitchen twine

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