Chicken Roulade with spring vegetables
Serves 4
- 240g Rochefort Tradition cheese
- 50g Rochefort butter
- 4 small chicken breasts, approximately 120g each
- 4 thin rashers of smoked bacon
- Any spring vegetables you like, such as:
- Carrots (4)
- A handful of green beans
- A handful of broad beans or peas
- White and/or green asparagus
- Turnips (4)
- Cauliflower (a few florets)
- etc.
- 1 clove garlic
- Ground salt and pepper
- Slice the Rochefort Tradition cheese
- Cut the chicken breasts in half lengthwise (without going all the way through)
- Open them to create an envelope and distribute the slices of Rochefort cheese between them, laying a rasher of smoked bacon on top
- Add ground pepper
- Wrap the chicken up tightly with the filling inside
- If necessary, hold them together with a toothpick
- Brown the chicken breasts in 20g of Rochefort butter in a casserole dish and then put them in the oven at 180°C for about 20 minutes.
- Clean the vegetables and cook them separately in salted water, keeping them slightly al dente
- Melt the rest of the butter in a frying pan, add the pre-cooked vegetables and the finely chopped garlic
- Add salt and pepper and sauté until the vegetables are well coated
- Arrange the chicken in a serving dish or on individual plates with the vegetables all around and serve
- Can be served with some baby new potatoes, browned in a knob of Rochefort butter