Spinach And Rice Stuffed Chicken

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 200 g baby spinach
• 100 g rice, cooked
• 2 chicken breasts
• 4 slices bacon
• 1/2 red onion, peeled and diced finely
• 2 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
• 2 teaspoons fresh basil, chopped
• 2 teaspoons fresh flat leaf parsley, chopped
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
• salt & freshly ground black pepper

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 220c or 425 degrees f.
• 2 in a saucepan, put in just enough water to cover the bottom, bring to a boil and then wilt half the spinach in the water.
• 3 drain and cool.
• 4 in a small frying pan heat 1 tbsp olive oil.
• 5 gently fry the onion and garlic for 1 minute to soften.
• 6 remove from the heat.
• 7 in a medium bowl mix together the cooked spinach, rice, onion, garlic, basil and parsley.
• 8 season.
• 9 cut a slice in each chicken breast.
• 10 divide the spinach mixture between the two pockets, packing it in tightly.
• 11 wrap two strips of bacon around each chicken breast.
• 12 transfer to the oven and bake for 30-35 minutes or until the chicken and bacon are cooked.
• 13 in a medium bowl mix the remaining oil with the balsamic vinegar.
• 14 fold in the remaining uncooked spinach.
• 15 to serve, sit the chicken on a bed of dressed spinach.