Simple Chicken and bacon rollups
This may take a little more prep than some of my other recipes, but its still very easy make. The only reason it takes a while is because you need to prepare the chicken first, however, if you use pre-cooked chicken you can literally half the preparation time and knock the entire dish together in about 15 minutes.
The combination of chicken and bacon has always been a winner and make a wonderful dish to have outside as its nice and compact and self contained in its own rollup package. You could even prep it ahead of time, chill it and have it for lunch either later in the day or somewhen in the week. It’s a very versatile recipe indeed and I think this is probably the best selling point about it.
Ingredients
| Chicken Breast | 180g |
| Smoked Bacon | 9 slices |
| Cream Cheese | 100g |
| Baby Spinach | 25g |
| Garlic Granules | 0.5 tsp |
| Salt | 0.25 tsp |
Method
- Prepare the chicken by cutting it into small cubes
- In a non-stick pan with little or no oil, cook the chicken until it is nicely browned all over.
- Remove the chicken from the pan and let it rest and cool
- Roughly chop the baby spinach and once the chicken has cooled combine the two in a mixing bowl.
- Add the cream cheese, garlic and salt and mix until the cream cheese covers the chicken.
- Lay the bacon slices out in a row and evenly distribute the chicken mixture at the fat end of each slice of bacon
- Roll the bacon up around the chicken mixture and lay them so the end is flat on the surface so they don’t come apart
- Heat your frying pan so its very hot and place each roll into the pan, join facing down. This will help to seer the bacon and hold the roll together.
- once the bacon has started to brown, turn and continue to cook until browned all around.
- Leave to cool and refrigerate or serve hot with salad and olive oil.
This may seem like quite a few steps for such a small dish, but do remember this is a very rich dish and is intended to fill you up with fat and protein and not carbohydrates. This is very much a low carb recipe and could probably be refined even further if you are really watching your macros.
I chose to make it with smoked bacon, however, it would be just a nice with normal bacon, pastrami or prosciutto ham.
Me and my family have found that three each is more than enough with a little salad. As always, put your own spin on it and let us know how you got on.
Enjoy!
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