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Italian Stuffed Chicken Breasts

From 1001 Recipes You've Always Wanted To Cook.

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A historical recipe

1001 Recipes You've Always Wanted To Cook.

Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. 2 slices of Parma ham

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.

Method

  1. olive oil to grease 8 slices mozzarella 4 x 125g/4oz boneless, skinless chicken breasts 4 fresh sage leaves 8 slices Parma ham ground black pepper cherry tomatoes on the vine 1 Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6.
  2. Lightly oil a baking sheet.
  3. 2 Put 2 mozzarella slices on top of each chicken breast and then add a sage leaf.
  4. Wrap each chicken breast in 2 slices of Parma ham, covering the mozzarella.
  5. Season with pepper.
  6. 3 Place the chicken on the baking sheet and cook in the oven for 20 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through, the cheese has melted and the ham is golden brown.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Baking tray
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Credit

From 1001 Recipes You've Always Wanted To Cook, printed page 6, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/1001RecipesYouveAlwaysWantedToCook

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.