Chicken breasts stuffed with porcini mushrooms and brown rice
Please your family with these mushroom filled chicken breasts. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and a squeeze of lemon juice to enhance the flavour
Ingredients
4 large chicken breasts, deboned, without skin
5 ml (1 tsp) Italian herbs
5 ml (1 tsp) chilli flakes
salt and pepper
100 g butter
100 ml olive oil
1 punnet porcini mushrooms
10 ml (2 tsp) chopped garlic
1 lemon, zested
125 ml (1/2 cup) chopped fresh parsley
250 ml (1 cup) cooked Spekko Saman Brown Rice
baby spinach leave to serve
Method
1.Preheat oven to 180°C.
2.Coat chicken in Italian herbs, 50 g butter, chilli flakes and salt and pepper.
3.Sauté onions in equal quantities of butter and olive oil until golden
4.Add chopped mushrooms and garlic and cook for 10 minutes or until done.
5.Stir in the lemon zest, chopped parsley and rice.
6.Make a slit in each chicken breast and stuff with mushroom filling.
7.Bake for 20 to 30 minutes until done.
8.Serve on a bed of baby spinach leaves.