Chicken Rolls with Bacon
Chicken breasts pounded thin and rolled around kashkaval and roasted red pepper, wrapped in bacon and baked until the bacon crisps and the cheese melts into the meat — a favourite on Bulgarian New Year and party tables.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 2 chicken breast fillets (about 600 g in total)
- 0.5 tsp salt
- 0.5 tsp black pepper, ground
- 1 tsp dried savory
- 120 g kashkaval (Bulgarian yellow cheese), cut into 8 sticks
- 2 roasted red peppers, peeled
- 8 slices streaky bacon
- 1 tbsp sunflower oil
- 80 ml dry white wine
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidenceRecipe total: 2017 kcal · P 167.9g · C 30.2g · F 125.6g
Estimated from 9 of 9 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
Steps
Steps
- 1Cut each breast horizontally into two thin escalopes and pound them between sheets of cling film to an even 5 mm.
- 2Season the escalopes lightly with the salt, pepper and savory — the bacon and cheese bring plenty of salt.
- 3Heat the oven to 200°C. Cut the peppers into strips and lay a strip of pepper and two sticks of kashkaval across the short end of each escalope.
- 4Roll each escalope up tightly from the filled end, tucking in the sides so the cheese cannot run out.
- 5Wrap each roll in two slices of bacon, overlapping them in a spiral so the bacon covers the seam, and secure with a toothpick.
- 6Brush a baking dish with the oil, lay the rolls in it seam side down and pour the wine around them.
- 7Bake for 25–30 minutes, until the bacon is crisp and the chicken is cooked through (74°C in the centre).
- 8Rest for 5 minutes, remove the toothpicks and slice each roll into thick rounds, or serve whole with the pan juices.
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Questions and answers
How long does Chicken Rolls with Bacon take to make?
About 55 minutes: 25 min prep and 30 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Chicken Rolls with Bacon?
9 ingredients: chicken breast fillets, salt, black pepper, dried savory, kashkaval, roasted red peppers, streaky bacon, sunflower oil, dry white wine.
How many servings does this Chicken Rolls with Bacon recipe make?
4 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Chicken Rolls with Bacon?
About 504 kcal, with 42 g protein, 7.5 g carbohydrate and 31.4 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
Which diets does this Chicken Rolls with Bacon recipe suit?
It is gluten-free.
What cuisine is Chicken Rolls with Bacon?
Chicken Rolls with Bacon comes from Bulgarian cuisine.
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