Chicken Breast With Posh Ham
Recipe: #15740
November 09, 2014
Categories: Chicken, Gluten-Free, No Eggs, Boneless Pieces, Chicken Dinner, more
"From a cookbook giveaway from a local shopping centre."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (681.8 g)
- Calories 985.2
- Total Fat - 43.3 g
- Saturated Fat - 14.5 g
- Cholesterol - 350 mg
- Sodium - 5582.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 20 g
- Dietary Fiber - 3.1 g
- Sugars - 2.7 g
- Protein - 125.4 g
- Calcium - 217 mg
- Iron - 6 mg
- Vitamin C - 57.5 mg
- Thiamin - 3.9 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
To prepare your chicken first grate your Parmesan then pick the thyme leaves off the stalks.
Step 2
Carefully score the underside of the chicken breasts in a criss-cross fashion with a small knife and season with a little pepper (you don't need salt the prosciutto is quite salty).
Step 3
Lay your breasts next to each other and sprinkle over most of the thyme leaves, grate a little lemon zest over them and then sprinkle with the parmesan.
Step 4
Lay 3 prosciutto slices on each chicken breast, overlapping them slightly, drizzle with a little olive oil and sprinkle with the remaining thyme leaves.
Step 5
Put a square of cling film over each breast and give a few really good bashes with the bottom of a pan until they're about 1cm thick.
Step 6
To cook your chicken put a frying pan over a medium heat, remove they clingfilm and carefully transfer the chicken breasts prosciutto side down, into the pan and drizzle over some olive oil and cook for 3 minutes each side, turning halfway through, giving the ham side an extra 30 seconds to crisp up.
Step 7
To serve your chicken either serve the chicken breasts whole or cut them into thick slices and pile them on a plate.
Step 8
Serve with some lemon wedges for squeezing over, and good drizzle of olive oil, lovely with mash and green vegetable or a crunchy salad.
Tips
No special items needed.