BACON-WRAPPED CHICKEN WITH CHEESE AND POTATO TOWER

Ingredients
- ½ chicken breast
- 25g/1oz Wensleydale cheese
- chopped
- 100g/3½oz streaky bacon
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- plus extra to grease
- ½ potato
- peeled and thinly sliced
- 25g/1oz Wensleydale cheese
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
- Using a sharp knife
- cut a pocket halfway into the chicken breast. Stuff the cheese into the pocket and wrap the chicken in the streaky bacon
- to seal up the pocket.
- Heat an ovenproof frying pan and
- when hot
- add the wrapped chicken breast and fry for two minutes on each side
- until the bacon is golden but not crisp. Transfer to the oven and cook for five minutes
- or until completely cooked through. (You will know the chicken is cooked when if pierced the juices run clear.)
- To make the potato tower
- place a 5cm/2in greased chefs' ring onto a clean work surface. Add alternate layers of potato and cheese
- seasoning well with salt and freshly ground black pepper between each layer.
- Heat the oil in an ovenproof frying pan over a medium heat. Carefully lift the chefs' ring and add to the pan. Cook for two minutes on each side
- then transfer to the oven and bake for 12 minutes.
- To serve
- push the potato and cheese tower out of the chefs' ring onto a plate and serve the chicken alongside.

