Aired This summer 1, 2015
4 tablespoons butter
1 large crisp apple, for example Pink Lady, Macoun or Honeycrisp, finely chopped
2 ribs celery with leafy tops, finely chopped
1 onion, finely chopped
1 1/2 cups seasoned stuffing (preferred brand Pepperidge Farm) or large homemade white-colored breadcrumbs toasted with salt, pepper and a pair of teaspoons Bells chicken seasoning
2 boneless poultry breasts, 1 1/2 to two pounds each
two tablespoons each finely chopped thyme, sage and parsley
1/2 pound grated sharp white-colored cheddar, 2 cups
1 pound lean top quality smoky bacon
two tablespoons canola or essential olive oil
For that Poultry Pan Gravy:
4 tablespoons butter
Coarse pepper
4 tablespoons flour
1/2 cup dry white-colored wine
2 cups poultry or chicken stock plus pan drippings
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
Preheat oven to 400F with rack at center of oven.
Heat butter inside a large skillet over medium to medium-high temperature. When foamy, add apple, celery and onion, and prepare to tender, partly covered, for 8-ten minutes stirring from time to time. Add stuffing or breadcrumbs and fresh herbs, and awesome.
Pat poultry dry and put between plastic or parchment. Pound into large rectangular shapes about 1/2-inch thick. Season with pepper and salt liberally on sides.
Cover poultry breasts with stuffing then some cheese and tightly wrap and roll.
Arrange the bacon on plastic wrap (half one pound for every roll), overlapping across the edges of every slice. Place poultry roll on the top of bacon and employ the plastic to assist wrap and roll each folded breast with bacon.
Heat the roasting pan over 2 burners over medium-high temperature with oil to coat. Gently brown bacon-wrapped poultry rolls, seam-side up, for just two-3 minutes. Rollover, brown a other minute or 2 more then roast one hour in order to 165F.
Transfer bacon-apple-cheddar-poultry rolls to some carving board and put roasting pan back on stove. Melt butter into drippings and whisk in pepper and flour. Add wine to deglaze, loosening drippings, whisk available and thicken to create gravy adding just a little Worcestershire to taste, in regards to a tablespoon approximately.
Slice and serve poultry rolls with gravy and eco-friendly vegetables and/or mashed taters or mashed sweet taters alongside.