Recipe: Stuffed chicken with spinach and feta cheese

Give your daily dinner a face-lift by stuffing chicken with a Greek-style mix of spinach and feta cheese. Not only is the chicken tender and delicious, the rolls look simply divine too! Add some lemon zest for a tangy taste and eat your heart away!

Ingredients:

Chicken breasts 2

Spinach 30 leaves

Feta cheese (crumbled) 4-5 cubes

Cheddar cheese (grated) 1 slice of cheese block

Egg 1

Salt and pepper to taste

Bread crumbs 1 cup or as needed

Method

For the chicken

•  Cut the chicken breasts thinly so as to get 4 pieces from 2 chicken breasts.

•  Hammer each piece flat, making sure each has equal thickness.

•  Marinate the chicken with salt and pepper. You can also marinate it in garlic and soya sauce.

•  Allow the chicken to sit for about an hour.

For the stuffing

•  Saute the spinach leaves in butter and pepper until they are cooked.

•  Crumble the feta cheese cubes.

•  Grate the slab of cheddar cheese.

For the coating

•  Coarsely grind together 1 piece of stale bread and a cup of corn flakes together, seasoning it with salt and pepper.

•  Light beat 1 egg to dip the chicken in.

For the dish:

•  Take 1 strip of chicken breast at one time and on one corner of the strip, place some spinach, feta cheese and cheddar cheese and roll the strip to the end.

•  Dip each roll in egg and coat it with bread crumbs.

•  Deep fry the chicken rolls at low heat until the coating becomes golden-brown.

•  Once out of the pan, allow the chicken to rest for 2 minutes before slicing it into to 1 inch thickness.

•  Serve with mashed potatoes. Addiction guaranteed!

Madiha Hamid is a digital media professional. She runs a food blog for Pakistani and regional cuisines called cheflingtales.com.

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Published in The Express Tribune, Ms T, August 9^th, 2013.

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