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Bacon and Basil Chicken Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
6 5 oz chicken breast no skin, no bone, R-T-C
24 each basil leaves large
½ pound bacon slices 12 slices
1 teaspoon black pepper or to taste
to taste salt
Directions:
Directions:
Blanch basil 2 seconds in boiling water and drain in a sieve. Rinse basil under cold water
to stop cooking. Dry.
Put 1 chicken breast, skinned side down, on a work surface and remove "tender" keeping
rest of chicken breast intact.
Wrap 4 basil leaves around tender to enclose it. . Season remainder of breast with salt
and pepper and put basil-wrapped tender lengthwise down middle of breast.
Beginning on underside at 1 end of breast, wrap bacon slices snugly but without
stretching, 1 at a time, around breast in a continuous overlapping spiral from 1 end to the
other. (You will need about 2 bacon slices for each breast.)
Cook chicken, turning it only after bacon on underside is golden, until bacon is golden and
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
6

 

 

 

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