Italian-Style Stuffed Chicken Breast

Prep: 35min
| Servings: 4 | Cook: 20min
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Italian-style stuffed chicken breast tastes like a vacation and is easy to prepare at home. Try the recipe from Spoonsparrow!

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Ingredients

  • 4 chicken breast fillets
  • 1 bundle basil
  • 10 g pine nuts
  • 100 g Gorgonzola cheese
  • 4 Carrots
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • 2 tbsp Vegetable oil
  • 0.125 l white wine
  • 200 ml vegetable broth
  • 100 ml heavy cream
  • 1 tbsp sauce thickener
  • salt (pepper)

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Wash and pat dry the chicken breast fillets, season with salt and pepper, and cut a pocket into each one. Remove basil leaves, wash them, and roughly chop with the pine nuts. Crumble Gorgonzola with a fork, mix everything together, and fill the pockets. Secure with toothpicks.

  2. 2.

    Heat oil in a pan and brown the chicken breasts all around for about 10 minutes. Remove, set aside warm. Deglaze the pan with wine. Add broth and cream, bring to a boil once, thicken with sauce thickener, season with salt and pepper.

  3. 3.

    Peel carrots, wash them, and cut into long strips with a vegetable peeler. Blanch in boiling salted water for 3 minutes, drain well, then toss in hot butter. Serve the Italian-style stuffed chicken breast with the carrot ribbons.