Recipe - Apple Stuffed Chicken Breasts

6 Boneless; skinless, split
chicken breasts
1 One half cup Diced red or green apples;
(about 2 apples)
One fourth cup Golden seedless raisins
One fourth cup Chopped walnuts
3 tablespoon Minced onion
2/3 teaspoon Dried sage
Melted butter or margarine
for brushing

GLAZE
4 tablespoon (One half stick) butter or
margarine
1/3 cup Apple jelly
One fourth cup Orange juice concentrate;
undiluted
One fourth cup Dry sherry

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease baking pan and set aside.
Place chicken breasts between sheets of plastic wrap and pound with meat
mallet to 1/4inch thickness. Set aside

Place apples, raisins, nuts, onion, and sage in bowl and stir to combine.
Place 1 tablespoon apple mixture in center of each breast ad roll up,
enclosing filling completely. Secure with wooden toothpicks and place,
seamsidedown, in single layer in prepared pan. Brush with melted butter
and set aside.

To make glaze, melt 4 tablespoons butter in small saucepan and stir in
apple jelly, orange juice, and sherry. Simmer 3 minutes until jelly is
completely melted.

Bake chicken in preheated oven, basting frequently with glaze, 3045
minutes or until no longer pink inside. Remove toothpicks before serving.

(Recipe from Gold Kist Farms)

Posted to EATL Digest by Al & Diane Johnson johnson@NEGIA.NET on Jan
18, 1998