Chicken breast is a healthy and dietary product that can be used to prepare a wide variety of dishes. You can complement the delicate taste of chicken meat with the unobtrusive sweetness of dried apricots and the spicy aftertaste of pesto sauce.
Preparation of food
In order to cook chicken roll with dried apricots and pesto, you will need:
- 1 skinless chicken breast
- 75 g dried apricots;
- 30 g parmesan;
- 100 ml olive oil;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 1 bunch of parsley;
- 1 bunch of basil
- salt and black pepper, ground to taste.
Cooking chicken roll
Rinse the chicken breast thoroughly, dry it, then cut it into thin layers and beat off, the pieces should turn out to be quite thin. Season the meat with salt and pepper. Set aside.
Make pesto sauce. To do this, chop the parsley, basil, garlic and parmesan. Mix all chopped ingredients with olive oil. Rinse dried apricots well and chop finely.
Put the chicken pieces together so that one overlaps the other a little. Apply the pesto sauce to the resulting wide layer. Place finely chopped dried apricots on top of the sauce.
Roll the meat into a roll. Wrap the chicken roll in foil and place in the oven for 15-20 minutes. The oven must be preheated to 180 ° C.
Cut the finished roll into small slices and serve hot or cold. Chicken roll with dried apricots and pesto can be served both as a main dish and as a snack.
