Apple stuffed chicken breasts
6 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Boneless; skinless, split chicken breasts | |
| 1½ | cup | Diced red or green apples; (about 2 apples) |
| ¼ | cup | Golden seedless raisins |
| ¼ | cup | Chopped walnuts |
| 3 | tablespoons | Minced onion |
| ⅔ | teaspoon | Dried sage |
| Melted butter or margarine for brushing | ||
| 4 | tablespoons | (1/2 stick) butter or margarine |
| ⅓ | cup | Apple jelly |
| ¼ | cup | Orange juice concentrate; undiluted |
| ¼ | cup | Dry sherry |
Directions
GLAZE
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease baking pan and set aside.
Place chicken breasts between sheets of plastic wrap and pound with meat mallet to ¼-inch thickness. Set aside Place apples, raisins, nuts, onion, and sage in bowl and stir to combine.
Place 1 tablespoon apple mixture in center of each breast ad roll up, enclosing filling completely. Secure with wooden toothpicks and place, seam-side-down, in single layer in prepared pan. Brush with melted butter and set aside.
To make glaze, melt 4 tablespoons butter in small saucepan and stir in apple jelly, orange juice, and sherry. Simmer 3 minutes until jelly is completely melted.
Bake chicken in preheated oven, basting frequently with glaze, 30-45 minutes or until no longer pink inside. Remove toothpicks before serving.
(Recipe from Gold Kist Farms)
Posted to EAT-L Digest by Al & Diane Johnson <johnson@...> on Jan 18, 1998