Bacon Wrapped Breasts
This is one of my favourite meals I used to eat when working at the Imperial Hotel on Bourke St in Melbourne, so I wanted to share it with you because it’s one of those really easy chicken recipes you can make at home, and I know how much people love bacon!
Basically, you take a breast of chicken, and wrap a nice big rasher of bacon around it, like so…
Bacon Wrapped Around A Chicken Breast
How To Cook Your Bacon-Wrapped Breast
The best way to cook your chicken is to pan-fry it, sealing both sides, and then finishing it off in the oven.
This will help cook it quickly, plus by pan-frying it first the flavours of the bacon will begin to absorb into the chicken breast, adding that delicious smoky flavour.
Now, I use a frypan with a metal handle so it can be put straight into the oven. If you don’t have a frypan that can cope with the heat of the oven, then transfer your chicken breast to a tray (preferably one that has at least a couple of centimetres of depth).
Cooking Your Bacon Wrapped Breast
Finishing Your Bacon-Wrapped Chicken Breast In The Oven
Make sure you’ve got the oven pre-heated to about 180C (375F).
Once you’ve sealed both sides (about 2-3 minutes each side should do it), transfer your chicken breast to the oven for about 6-8 minutes to finish it off.
SUGGESTION: Before oven-roasting the chicken, I add a touch of white wine, it adds a bit of flavour to the chicken plus keeps it juicy and tender. If you don’t want to use white wine, a little bit of chicken stock, or even water, will also do the trick!
To make it a complete meal, I like to combine it with some mashed potato and fresh veggies, plus my favourite part of the meal, sun-dried tomato mayo.
How To Make Sun-Dried Tomato Mayo
This can be quite simple, if you’re pressed for time and happy to use store-bought mayonnaise, then in a food processor add your sun-dried tomatoes (depending on how much you want to make, you might only need to add a few).
Blend to a pulp, then add some mayo to mix it all together nicely.
If you’re like me and you prefer to make your own mayo, in your food processor you’ll need to begin with about 6 egg yolks, white vinegar (enough to make up for the missing egg white), a table spoon of Dijon (French) Mustard, 1/3 table spoon of Hot English Mustard, and a pinch of salt and pepper.
Blitz it all together, then slowly add 1L of good vegetable oil.
Just start with a very slow drizzle to begin with, and once it begins to emulsify (stick together), you can start to add the oil a little more quickly.
If the mayo looks like it’s beginning to split, add a touch of warm water and slow right down when you begin to add oil again.
Bacon-Wrapped Chicken Breast Topped With Sun-Dried Tomato Mayo
And here is the end result, a tender, juicy chicken breast, flavoured with bacon and sun-dried tomato mayo!
Bacon Wrapped Chicken Breast Topped With Sun-Dried Tomato Mayo
A meal for one should take about 15-20 minutes to prepare and cook, and it cost about $5AUD at the time of writing.
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March 27th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Sounds like an easy meal that will be become a regular.
To make up the tomato mayo with 1L of olive oil, how long will its shelf life be??? Seems an awful lot of mayo to make up.
Thanks for sharing.
Sharon
http://sharondebruyn.com
March 27th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Yeah it is a lot, that is just an example, so you could always bring the amount of ingredients down so it doesn’t make quite as much. I’m just used to making bulk amounts of most foods that I prep
I wouldn’t use olive oil for mayo by the way, the flavour tends to be too strong and overpowering, plus it’s much more expensive than regular vegetable oil.
March 27th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
looks darn good to me when you coming over my place to cook
March 28th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Now that looks like my kind of meal. I like the simplicity of it. I generally have both bacon and chicken breasts in the house, so I will have to try this some time.
June 1st, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Looks very nice to me. I am eager to bake and eat.
December 13th, 2009 at 11:05 am
That looks absolutely amazing and I’ll definately be making that tomorrow for dinner looks yumtastic
January 16th, 2010 at 5:03 am
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February 19th, 2010 at 4:44 am
I am like bacon !