Author Notes
This is a nice little combination of chicken, cheese, oranges and a variation on bacon – my husband (who is an AMAZING cook!) and I created this together –And, okay, I admit the blood orange reduction didn’t really take three days to make; just three evenings of about 1 ½ to 2 hours each – basically you just want to cook the sauce down for about 5 hours – more if you can. But 5 hours should do it. The sauce is pretty basic; and once you make it; you can use it for other things. You could also stuff and roll quail, cornish game hens or poussins as well. —coffeefoodwrite
Ingredients
- For the Chicken & Filling:
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¾ cup Bulgarian feta (or whatever feta you have on hand...)
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1 egg – beaten
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2 tablespoon fresh mint – chopped
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4 turns fresh ground black pepper
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¼ teaspoon smoked paprika
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½ tablespoon butter
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½ tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
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¼ cup soft goat cheese
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l clove garlic – crushed
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approximately 3 slices proscuttio per breast
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4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts – pounded to ¼ to ½ an inch thick
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Extra utensils: kitchen twine
- 3-Day Blood Orange Reduction:
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9 large blood oranges – peeled and skinned
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1 regular orange
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1 cup tangerine juice
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2 cups red wine
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½ cup orange liquor (we used Orange Curacao)
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¾ cup port
Directions
- For the Chicken & Filling:
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Pound chicken breasts to about ½ inch thick. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
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Add feta, egg, mint, black pepper, paprika, goat cheese, and crushed garlic all together in a bowl. Smash together with a fork until slightly lumpy but also smooth.
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Lay out pounded chicken breasts on flat surface. Spoon one to two tablespoons filling into middle. Roll up like a burrito. Wrap each breast in pancetta also covering the little ends in case any of the feta filling is seeping out.
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Use kitchen twine to tie securely; first the long ends; then two ties around middle sections (see pic!).
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Heat olive oil and butter in medium sauce pan over medium to medium-high heat. Place each roll in and sauté until deep mahogany/golden.
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Remove to baking dish and bake for 15 minutes at 400 degrees until chicken is cooked through (be careful here – the chicken will cook quickly – you want to find that nice balance between cooked through and juicy – be very very careful not to overcook – you don’t want it to be card board-y. =)
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When cooked, remove from oven and let rest for about five minutes. Slice on the diagonal; place on plates and spoon blood orange reduction over top.
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(This would be good with a nice light cucumber salad...=))
- 3-Day Blood Orange Reduction:
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Just throw everything into a large pot and cook down for about 5 hours or so, until thick and fragrant. Spoon over stuffed chicken or use for other (very interesting) things...
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