STUFFED CHICKEN BREAST WITH SWEET POTATO CHIPS AND MINTY SALSA
Ingredients
- 1 chicken supreme
- skin and wing bone attached
- handful baby spinach
- 6 oyster mushrooms
- lightly pulled apart into pieces
- small handful pine nuts
- 4-6 slices pancetta
- ground cumin
- olive oil
- 1 sweet potato
- 1 tomato
- 10 mint leaves
- ½ small red onion
- finely chopped
Directions
- Trim the wing bone and tidy up the skin on the chicken.
- Turn the supreme over and remove the fillet and carefully open up a cavity with a boning knife.
- Blanch a handful of baby spinach and refresh in cold water
- drain and squeeze dry.
- Fry the oyster mushrooms in olive oil and allow to cool.
- Mix the spinach and mushrooms together
- season and add a few pine nuts.
- Put this mixture in the cavity of the chicken
- then replace the fillet. Lightly coat the chicken in some ground cumin
- then wrap the chicken in thinly sliced pancetta
- seal it in a hot pan with some olive oil and roast in the oven for 10-12 minutes at 160C/325F/Gas 3.
- Using an apple corer
- cut cylindrical chips from a raw orange fleshed sweet potato. Cook in boiling water for about 4 minutes and allow to cool. Pan-fry the chips in some vegetable oil until they go a golden roasted colour (about 2/3 minutes).
- Cut the tomato into fine dice
- add the finely chopped mint leaves and onion and a few drops of olive oil. Serve with the chicken and sweet potato.

