Kooking with Kristin: Chicken Roulade!

I was making dinner recently to share with a friend and needed to do something a little different due to a food allergy.  I came up with this recipe and I then made it again recently.  Dean and I both agree . . . It is delicious!  Here is the recipe:

Chicken Roulade!

Ingredients:

• Chicken breasts
• Pesto
• Cook Bacon
• Olive oil
• Kitchen Twine

Preparation:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees
• Pound out chicken to thinner breast (approx 1/3" thickness)
• Spread pesto onto chicken an layer bacon on top
• Roll up tightly and secure with twine
• Sprinkle with salt and pepper
• Heat skillet on stovetop and add a little olive oil.  Brown the chicken (approx 5 min)
• Put chicken roulade in baking pan, wrap in foil and place in oven.  Bake approx 45 minutes.  
• Cut twine and serve.  (Could be sliced, but I decided was great without slicing).

  

  We served with a baked potato and corn-on-the-cob.  Yum!  XXOO, Kristin