Mushroom Stuffed Chicken in Puff Pastry with Mustard Sauce

This is a really tasty dish courtesy of Jamie Oliver. Its actually his dad’s recipe, and I really liked it after giving it a try myself. The crispy pastry and the juicy chicken with mushrooms is absolutely gorgeous, the mustard sauce just finishes it off perfectly. I think its a great dish if friends are coming over, pretty impressive with not too much labour involved!

This was the first time I actually used puff pastry and found it pretty easy to handle. One just has to remember to thaw it out for a few minutes before you plan to use it. Or you will be sitting like me with everything else ready but your pastry hard as a rock!

Ingredients:

• 170g mushrooms any combination
• olive oil
• 1 or 2 cloves of garlic peeled and finley chopped
• sea salt and fresh black pepper
• 1 handful of fresh flat leaf parsley
• 4x200g skinless chicken breasts
• plain flour for dusting
• 1x500g puff pastry
• 1 egg beaten
• 2 heaped table spoon wholegrain mustard
• 1 large glass of white wine
• 140ml double cream

Method

• Preheat oven to 200C / 400F gas 6. Chop the mushrooms half rough half fine. To a hot pan, add a couple of lugs of olive oil and slowly fry the mushrooms and garlic for 10 minutes then add the parsley and season to taste allow to cool.
• Pull back the chicken fillet on the breasts and keep intact, score into the breast and stuff the chicken with the cooled mushrooms.
• Using a little dusting of flour and a rolling pin, roll the pastry out to around 45cm in lenght and 20cm wide and 0.5cm thick. slice into 4 pieces lenghtways and wrap around each one. Brush the pastry with a little egg and cook in the preheated oven for about 35 mins.
• While the chicken is cooking, put the mustard and wine into a hot pan and allow to reduce the alcohol smell. add the cream and simmer untill the sauce coats a back of a spoon, then remove the heat and season to taste.
• when the chicken breasts have cooked, remove from The oven, slice into to 3 and serve with a bit of sauce and a drizzle of olive oil if you like. GORGEOUS!