Stuffed Chicken Breast with Creamy Green Pepper Sauce

Preparation Time:
90 mins
Baking Time:
-
Serves:
10 people

Ingredients

  • 10 chicken breasts (approx. 200 g each) 
  • 625 g mushrooms 
  • 5 red onions 
  • 5 tbsp green peppercorns (jar) 
  • 300 g apricots, dried
  • 750 g Oldenburger Chef's Cooking Cream, 20% fat 
  • 2.5 tbsp Oldenburger Butter, unsalted 
  • 10 stems of thyme 
  • 1.5 tsp cumin salt pepper 
  • 625 g of rice 
  • 250 ml sunflower oil 
  • 2.5 tbsp flour 
  • 250 ml chicken broth 
  • 250 ml orange juice 
  • 2.5 tbsp mustard, medium hot

Instructions

Preparation

Wash thyme, shake dry and peel off the leaves. Finely chop the apricots. Rinse the chicken through cold water, pat dry. Peel onions and cut into thick slices. Clean mushrooms and cut into bite-sized pieces. Drain the green peppercorns from the jar. Prepare rice according to package instructions

The Filling

Mix the apricots, thyme and cumin in a bowl. Season with salt and pepper.

The Chicken

Cut a hole into the sides of the chicken pieces and fill with apricot mixture. Fix with skewers. Heat oil in a pan and sauté the chicken breasts on both sides until golden brown. Season with salt. Remove chicken breasts from the pan and set aside.


The Creamy Pepper Sauce

Then fry mushrooms and onions in the same pan before it cools, for about 3 minutes. Melt Oldenburger Butter in the same pan, dust with flour and cook for about 2 minutes. Add broth, juice and Oldenburger Chef’s Cooking Cream. Then, stir in the mustard and peppercorns. Add chicken breasts to the sauce and simmer for about 10 minutes.

The Final Touch

Cut the chicken and serve with sauce and rice.

Tips from Chefs to Chefs

For a special flavor, you can also use Ras el Hanout instead of cumin. Ras el Hanout is an arabic spice blend of about 25 different spices.

Recommended Products

Oldenburger Chef's Cooking Cream 20% fat, UHT, 1kg
  • hot application
  • perfect for refining
  • heat- and acid-stable
  • for long cooking processes
Oldenburger Butter unsalted, min. 82% fat, 250g piece
  • soft and easy to spread
  • no additives
  • made from pure cow's milk

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