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Roulade of chicken breasts with brown rice and nut stuffing in a curry sauce

Roulade of chicken breasts with brown rice and nut stuffing in a curry sauce

This roulade of chicken breasts has a brown rice and nut stuffing. The curry sauce is flavoured with apple.

  • Serves: 4
  • Difficulty: medium
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Ingredients

    8 chicken breasts

    Stuffing

    • 50 g butter
    • 1 bunch spring onions, finely chopped
    • 1 red pepper, very finely chopped
    • 250 ml (1 cup) cooked Spekko Saman Brown Rice
    • 100g unsalted raw cashew nuts, toasted and very finely chopped
    • 2 eggs, beaten
    • salt and white pepper to taste

    Curry sauce

    • 30g butter
    • 2 onions, sliced
    • 1 potato, peeled and diced
    • 2 Golden delicious apples, peeled cored and diced
    • 2 tomatoes, peeled and chopped
    • 20 ml (4 tsp) tomato puree
    • 60 ml (4 tbsp) Thai curry paste
    • 500 ml (2 cups) chicken stock
    • 65 ml (¼ cup) coconut cream
    • salt and pepper to taste

     

Method

    1. Preheat the oven to 180 °C.
    2. First make the stuffing: heat butter and sauté spring onions and red pepper until soft. Add the Spekko Saman Brown Rice and nuts and season to taste. Add eggs to bind.
    3. Beat the chicken breasts between 2 plastic sheets as flat as possible without breaking them.
    4. Place breasts in a double row on a long sheet of cling film and spread the filling evenly over breasts.
    5. Using cling wrap, roll up into a log, put roll on a double layer of foil, remove cling wrap. Roll up tightly with foil and bake for 25 minutes. Remove from oven and let rest for 15 minutes.
    6. To make curry sauce: melt butter in a saucepan and sauté onions until soft. Add potato and apples, cover and cook for 5 minutes.
    7. Add curry paste, tomatoes and tomato puree, cook for 5 minutes. Add stock and bring to the boil then simmer gently for 20 minutes stirring occasionally. Add coconut cream heat through for a further 10 minutes. Once cooked press sauce through a strainer.
    8. To serve; slice roulade, place on a warm serving plate and spoon curry sauce around the chicken. Serve with vegetables in season.

    From the Spekko kitchen

    • Serve this dish warm.
    • The dish can be doubled.