Italian stuffed chicken

Italian stuffed chicken

Chicken recipes are always among the most searched-for on bbcgoodfood.com, so the cookery team came up with this quick and easy supper dish specially

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 5 mins

Cook time

Cook 20 mins

Gluten-free

Method

  1. Heat oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7. Beat the olives or sundried tomatoes, garlic and almost all the herbs into the cheese, then season. Cut a slit along the side of each chicken breast, then use your knife to open it out into a pocket.
  2. Stuff each breast with a quarter of the cheese mix, then press to close. Lift onto a greased baking tray. Season the top of the chicken, then overlap tomato slices over the top of each piece of chicken. Season, then scatter with the remaining herbs. Drizzle with olive oil.
  3. Roast for 20 mins until the chicken is golden around the edges and the tomatoes look a little shrivelled. Serve with a green salad and crusty bread to mop up the juices.
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Tip

To vary this recipe, you can swap the soft cheese for a soft garlic and herb cheese.

PER SERVING

332 kcalories, protein 37g, carbohydrate 5g, fat 18 g, saturated fat 9g, fibre 0g, sugar 4g, salt 1.17 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, March 2009.

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  • 09 August 2009

    Scrummy! rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    Simple to make, so great for ease, but nothing special taste wise.

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  • 23 August 2009

    supertellp commented on this recipe

    This is a firm favourite in our house, Very quick and easy mid week meal.

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  • 05 September 2009

    aardigman rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This was absolutely lovely. I have made it twice and it was better the second time. I certainly will be making it again and it will become a regular dish in my home. Highly recommended

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  • 08 September 2009

    Deakers rated and commented on this recipe

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    Loved this dish so quick and simple and everybody loves it! thanks Goodfood :)

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  • 10 September 2009

    melinda rated this recipe

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  • 28 September 2009

    Beth rated this recipe

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  • 09 October 2009

    Miny rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Loved this! Took slightly longer to cook than stated because I cooked for a friend, and we spent longer chatting and drinking wine than concentrating on cooking, but it was worth the wait!! WE both thought delish, and I don't usually like stuff with cheese in!

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  • 10 October 2009

    Amal rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Just made this tonight and absolutely loved it. It seem other comments so made sure to put a bit extra cheese to make it moist and also left it for 30mins!!!!! perfect!!!!!

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    26 October 2009

    Lee rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Totally loved this...so healthy with lots of flavour ..

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  • 25 January 2010

    Sue Mac rated this recipe

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  • 09 February 2010

    steveb25 rated this recipe

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  • 28 March 2010

    WonderWoman rated this recipe

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  • 10 May 2010

    lambs_tail commented on this recipe

    This went down well with my husband. I used low fat cream cheese and fresh herbs as I had lots to use up; parsley, chives, basil and dill. As I like cheese, I butterflied the chicken instead of cutting a pocket into the breast to fit more cheese on! I cooked it for nearly nearly 30 minutes and served it with a watercress salad and tomato couscous.

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  • 26 May 2010

    DAVET rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    An absolute treat.

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  • 10 June 2010

    harmonybunny rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    I wanted to make this but bought the wrong cheese, i came home with pineapple cream cheese instead! Anyway stuffed this into the chicken and lay basil leaves on top. Cooked it in a paper parcel it was super, a happy accident, will be paying less attention while shopping in the future.

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  • 21 July 2010

    Kelly commented on this recipe

    I ADORE this recipe! I strongly recommend everyone tries it!

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  • 28 July 2010

    Ringaree commented on this recipe

    Looks like it should be hard to make and take a long time but it is really, really easy and quick. So tasty as well. Have e-mailed my family to try it and let me know what they thought of it. It will be a great recipe to make when friends are coming over and time is short. I find myself thinking about it all evening....mmmm

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  • 28 August 2010

    wendy rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Tried this out and turned to be really good!

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  • 09 September 2010

    Anna rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This was great! Used sundried tomatoes because I'm not a massive fan of olives but I think they would have been good to. A lot less effort required than some other stuffed chicken recipes, yet equally full of flavour. I served with home made potato wedges and some roasted red peppers, yellow peppers and red onions. Also I used low fat soft cheese and it was fine.

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  • 31 October 2010

    petunia rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    made this today and it was lovely!!

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 5 mins

Cook time

Cook 20 mins

Gluten-free

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332 kcalories, protein 37g, carbohydrate 5g, fat 18 g, saturated fat 9g, fibre 0g, sugar 4g, salt 1.17 g

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