Cream cheese and chive chicken wrapped in bacon with buttery leeks

Name: Cream cheese and chive chicken wrapped in bacon with buttery leeks
Total time: 50 min
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 4 chicken breasts; 150g full fat cream cheese; 2 tbsp fresh chives, chopped; 1 garlic clove, crushed; 8 smoked streaky bacon rashers; 3 leeks, sliced; 40g butter; 100ml double cream; 1 tbsp olive oil

Chicken breasts filled with herby cream cheese, wrapped in bacon and baked, served on soft buttery leeks.

Time50 min
LevelMedium
Costabout £2.35 a head
Oven200°C (180°C fan)

4 servings

Ingredients

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4chicken breasts
150 gfull fat cream cheese
2 tbspfresh chiveschopped
1garlic clovecrushed
8smoked streaky bacon rashers
3leekssliced
40 gbutter
100 mldouble cream
1 tbspolive oil

Method

1
Heat the oven to 200°C (180°C fan). Mix the cream cheese, chives, garlic and pepper.
2
Cut a deep pocket into the side of each chicken breast. Stuff with the cream cheese mix and close.
3
Wrap two rashers of bacon around each breast. Place in a baking dish, drizzle with the oil and bake for 30 minutes, until the bacon is crisp and the chicken is cooked through.
30 min
4
Meanwhile, melt the butter in a pan and cook the leeks for 10 minutes until very soft.
10 min
5
Stir in the cream and cook for 2 minutes. Season well.
2 min
6
Serve the chicken on the buttery leeks.

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