Chicken with almond, apricot & prosciutto
Your family will love this BBQ prosciutto wrapped chicken breast recipe. The perfect combo of almond, apricot and cream cheese melts in the mouth!
Ingredients
- 4 Waitoa free range chicken breast fillets
- 125 g Apricot and Almond Cream Cheese
- 2 tbsp Olivado olive oil
- Sea salt & freshly ground pepper
- 4-6 slices prosciutto
Instructions
- Heat a BBQ grill or preheat oven to 180 °C.
- With a sharp knife, cut a 1-inch long slit into the thick side of each chicken breast. Work your fingers into the slit, and expand to form a pocket in the breast meat. With your fingers or a spoon, stuff each chicken breast with about 1/4 cup of the cream cheese mixture.
- Wrap each breast in a slice of prosciutto so that the pocket opening is covered.
- Drizzle chicken with Extra Virgin Olive Oil and season with sea salt and freshly ground pepper.
- Cook on BBQ grill for 8 minutes each side or brown first in pan and finish in preheated oven (approx. 20 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink and prosciutto is crispy).
- Remove chicken from grill or oven and rest for 10 minutes before serving.
- Slice chicken and serve with new season steamed asparagus.
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