Stuffed chicken breast

Stuffed chicken breast

Make a chicken breast into something special, with this dinner party-worthy dish

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 50 mins

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. To make the sauce, put the red peppers on a baking tray, drizzle with olive oil and cook for 20-25 minutes. Cool slightly, peel, chop and put in a pan with the tomatoes and a splash of water. Simmer for 20 minutes. Add the stock cube and sugar and season well. Blend to a smooth sauce in a food processor.
  2. Make a slit down 1 side of each chicken breast to form a pocket. Season. Stuff each pocket with slices of mozzarella, 4 cherry tomato halves and a quarter of the basil. Wrap each chicken breast with 2 pieces of ham and season. Put on a baking sheet and cook for 20-25 minutes or until cooked through.
  3. Serve with the red pepper sauce and seasonal vegetables such as steamed carrots and broccoli or roasted courgette and red peppers.
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Know-how

The free-range chicken, buffalo mozzarella and Denhay air-dried ham that Darts use for this are all sourced locally.

Per serving

414 kcalories, protein 49.6g, carbohydrate 20.2g, fat 15.6 g, saturated fat 6.2g, fibre 3.2g, salt 3.44 g

Recipe from olive magazine, July 2005.

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  • 04 February 2012

    Norma commented on this recipe

    I love this so simple this will be the forth time I have made this

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  • 04 February 2012

    Norma commented on this recipe

    I forgot to say We found the sause enough for eight, so I freeze the rest

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  • 12 February 2012

    lynne rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Fab recipe very easy, worst part skinning the peppers! the sauce complimented the chicken and was worth the effort. I only used 1 tbsp of sugar and was still sweet but delicious, will make more often good for family meal or like me for dinner party, served with sweet pot wedges and med. vegetables everyone loved it! Thanks

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  • 12 February 2012

    lynne commented on this recipe

    Fab recipe very easy, worst part skinning the peppers! the sauce complimented the chicken and was worth the effort. I only used 1 tbsp of sugar and was still sweet but delicious, will make more often good for family meal or like me for dinner party, served with sweet pot wedges and med. vegetables everyone loved it! Thanks

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  • 18 February 2012

    Traycee rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Lovely recipe, very simple to make I used Bacon on the outside which kept the chicken moist,and mature Cheese for inside the chicken,and held the Chicken together with cocktail sticks which Kept most of the filling inside, made with New potatoes, and green beans go well with The sauce. DELISHhhhhhhhhhh....

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  • 25 February 2012

    Yaniv rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Did this yesterday for a small dinner party. Was gorgeous!used nice free range breasts and stuck to the recipe almost completely. The sauce was great and could have served 10 people. Peeled some of the peppers but didn't bother too much with the ones that were hard to peel. Usef a bit less sugar. Served with potato gratin and green beans that were boiled and then tossed in a bit of olive oil and crushed garlic clove. Was superb!

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  • 21 March 2012

    cheekt999 rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Did this without the sauce it's one of our fav meals now

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  • 03 April 2012

    Aedin rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    very tasty and simple to make.

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  • 06 August 2012

    cupcakequeen commented on this recipe

    This is my favourite chicken recipe, made it for a Valentines meal and it was so delicious and went down really well. I made it with rosemary roast potatoes and green beans. Agree with the comments about using good ingredients - I have made it once with value mozzarella and cherry tomatoes and it wasn't quite as tasty. Also I find that the chicken breasts you get from the supermarkets are quite small - it's quite hard to cut a 'pocket' out of them without the filling splurging everywhere. Definitely worth visiting the butchers for some large chicken breasts so you can get lots of filling tucked up in there!

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    13 December 2012

    caz rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This was a great success! only thing I did differently was add a tin of chopped tomatos with chilli to the sauce just to take away from the sweetness and add a bit of kick and volume. Everyone loved it will definitely be making again soon!

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  • 16 January 2013

    ChellyM rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    I loved this recipie. Really easy to do but like others I found the sauce a little too sweet so will add less sugar next time I make it. which I will be doing. Had this with green veg and new potatoes with philli and spring onions.

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  • 30 January 2013

    Mutty commented on this recipe

    Really quick and easy to make and very tasty. I used tinned tomatoes and a very small amount of sugar and the sauce was wonderful.

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  • 07 February 2013

    howzay2k rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Lovely, and dead simple!

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  • 19 February 2013

    receptes rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Lovely. Very easy to make. I love the the crisp ham wrapper. It's definitely a great kick with the blandness of the chicken (I've always felt chicken meat was pretty bland).

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 50 mins

Ingredients

Red pepper sauce

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Per serving

414 kcalories, protein 49.6g, carbohydrate 20.2g, fat 15.6 g, saturated fat 6.2g, fibre 3.2g, salt 3.44 g

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