Roast chicken with couscous & pine nut stuffing recipe

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Delicious hot or cold and perfect for a picnic, this stuffed chicken will be a real family favourite

Easy
Serves 8
Prep 40 mins
Cook 1 hr 10 mins

Ingredients

100g couscous
175ml boiling chicken stock
50g butter
1 onion , finely chopped
1 garlic clove , crushed
100g pine nuts
140g dried apricots , roughly chopped
large handful parsley , roughly chopped
2 tbsp mint leaves, roughly chopped
1 lemon
1 egg , beaten
6 skinless chicken breasts
16 rashers streaky bacon

Method

Put couscous in a large heatproof bowl, pour over stock, then cover with cling film for 5 mins until liquid is absorbed. Melt half the butter in a pan, then gently cook onion and garlic for 5-8 mins until soft. Set aside. Dry-fry pine nuts for a few mins until golden. Combine onions, pine nuts, apricots and herbs with couscous. Add a good squeeze of lemon juice, season, then stir in egg. Leave to cool.

Using the back of a knife, stretch rashers to 1½ times their original length. Lay, slightly overlapping, on a large sheet of foil to form a rectangle. Make a few slashes in the thickest part of each chicken breast and lay between 2 sheets of cling film. Use the base of a heavy pan to bash the chicken until about 1cm thick. Arrange chicken over the bacon, fitting so there are no gaps, but leave a border on longer sides. (This helps to roll up the chicken.)

Spoon stuffing over chicken in a strip along one of the longest sides. Using tin foil to help, roll bacon and chicken around stuffing like a log. Wrap tightly in foil, twisting the ends to secure, then chill for 2 hrs or up to 1 day.

Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Place chicken, join-side down, in a roasting tray. Cook for 30 mins, then unwrap foil and brush roast with remaining butter. Cook, uncovered, for 20-30 mins more until cooked through, and the stuffing is hot (a metal skewer inserted into the chicken's centre should come out hot). Cool and wrap in fresh foil to transport.

Nutrition Per Serving

348 kcalories, protein 26.3g, carbohydrate 16g, fat 20 g, saturated fat 7g, fibre 2g, sugar 9g, salt 1.32 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, August 2007. 

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