Italian Chicken Roll-ups

Want to impress your dinner guests or wow some picky eaters?  Make homemade ricotta cheese using Lolans Farm raw milk. Click here to download the directions.  Use it to stuff chicken breasts in this simple and delicious recipe, adapted from “Our Best Bites”.

Italian Chicken Roll-Ups

3 large boneless skinless chicken breasts, halved horizontally

kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

1 cup spinach leaves

8 ounces ricotta cheese

1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon Homemade Garlic Bread Seasoning  (recipe below)

1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

4 tablespoons butter, melted

1 cup Italian seasoned bread crumbs

Marinara sauce

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 350’. Mix together the ricotta cheese and garlic bread seasoning and set aside. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.

Place a chicken breast piece on a plastic cutting board and cover the entire board with a piece of plastic wrap. Pound the chicken breast with a meat mallet until it’s about 1/4″ thick (it will spread).  Repeat with remaining chicken breast pieces.

Line a chicken breast with spinach leaves. Spread about 2 tablespoons of the ricotta mixture over the spinach leaves, leaving about a 1/2″ margin from each edge, then sprinkle with mozzarella. Starting at one end, carefully roll up each chicken breast and secure with 2 toothpicks. Repeat with the remaining chicken breasts.

Roll each stuffed chicken breast in melted butter, then roll in the Italian seasoned bread crumbs and place on the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 35-40 minutes in the preheated oven or until the chicken is cooked through. If you want to brown the tops a little, turn on the low broiler for 1-2 minutes (be sure to  keep an eye on it–burning things at this point would be very sad).

  Heat some marinara sauce to drizzle on the chicken breasts or serve as a dipping sauce.

 Makes 6 servings.

Homemade Garlic Bread Seasoning

This Homemade Garlic Bread Seasoning is so easy that you’ll always keep a jar in your fridge for homemade garlic bread, breadsticks, or pizza sauce!

Ingredients:

1/2 cup powdered Parmesan cheese

2 teaspoon Kosher salt

2 tablespoons garlic powder

2 teaspoons oregano

2 teaspoons basil

2 teaspoons marjoram

2 teaspoons parsley

Instructions

Combine ingredients in a jar (preferably one with a sprinkle top) and shake. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator until the expiration date on the cheese.