Friday, 15 June 2012

Chicken Pesto Parcels


This is a delicious and filling meal that is alas not nearly as well suited to leftovers as many of the other meals I make.

The dish requires chicken thigs, pesto, salt and camembert cheese and puff pastry.
You cut the pastry into two triangles andrub salt on the outside of the chicken thighs. You then roll the chicken thighs around pieces of camembert and then put pesto on the outside and place each one in the centre of a triangle.
Finally you fold the pastry around them; either the recipe book I took this from is using larger pieces of pastry or the chicken thighs I get are a little too big, so I tend to use another piece of pastry (about a quarter of a sheet per triangle) to help cover the gap otherwise they leak all over the place during the cooking process.
You then bake the parcels for 30 minutes at 180 degrees and serve with a salad. In this case I just tossed together a salad of lettuce carrot and green capsicum.

With the amount of chicken thighs you tend to get from the supermarket this meal serves 4.

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