Kennett’s Healthy Cheesy Chicken Mushroom Wrap

Once you’ve had a Kennett’s Healthy Cheesy Chicken Mushroom Wrap you will never go back. This sensational cheesy chicken wrap with a savory mushroom stuffing looks impressive and is easy to serve either warm or cold.  The stuffing keeps the chicken moist.  Serve warm with gravy or cold with a good garlic mayonnaise, preferably homemade. Remember to use a sharp carving knife to get neat clean slices with no shredding.  This recipe serves 4-6 as a main course or part of a buffet.

Stuffing (cooking items required listed below)

•250 grams mushrooms, preferably our savory crimini (baby bella) or oyster mushrooms, cut into quarters

•2 cloves of garlic, crushed

•100 grams unsalted butter, softened (this is pretty important flavor-wise so we recommend sticking to butter and not an alternative

•3 rashers of streaky bacon, cut into matchsticks

•1 tablespoon olive oil

•salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

Chicken (cooking items required listed below)

•2 large boneless chicken supremes i.e. double breasts

•salt and freshly ground black pepper

•A meat mallet or a heavy rolling pin

•heavy foil

•baking parchment and string

•a large saucepan with a good fitting lid, big enough to take the roll without bending it.

•a trivet or steamer to hold the roll – an inverted plate will do

Stuffing Directions

Heat the olive oil in  a frying pan and cook the bacon until the fat runs.  Drain the bacon bits and then saute the mushrooms in the olive oil and bacon fat.  Take off the heat and mix with the softened butter and the crushed garlic.  Season to taste.  Set aside.

Final Assembly

Lay a large sheet of heavy foil on your work surface. It needs to be big enough to go twice round the completed roll so that water can’t get in during cooking.  Lay a similarly sized sheet of baking parchment (non-stick baking paper) on top of the foil.  Cut through each chicken breast so that it opens up like a book and beat it flat so that they are all of an even thickness.  Lay them, overlapping, on the foil/parchment layers, making sure that there is a border of paper and foil sticking out all the way round.  Season the chicken with salt and pepper and then spread evenly with the stuffing mixture, leaving a bit of a border around the edges.  Roll up carefully into a firm neat roll.  Fold around the baking parchment and then the foil, tucking in the ends to make a secure package that won’t leak.  If you are nervous, you might want to also tie it up with string but this shouldn’t be necessary if the foil is firm enough and you don’t let the water boil vigorously.

Bring 3 liters of water to the boil in the saucepan, carefully lower in the chicken, cover and immediately reduce the heat to a simmer.  This is because you want it to cook steadily without the water boiling vigorously and pulling your parcel undone!  Simmer gently for about an hour, making sure that the pan doesn’t boil dry.  If you need to top it up, use boiling water from the kettle so that you don’t reduce the temperature in the pan.  After an hour, turn off the heat and let stand for another hour.  Remove carefully from the pan and either unwrap and serve warm or leave to cool in the wrappings if you are going to serve it cold.

Enjoy!