Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Chicken Saltimbocca

Late one night I was surfing through some recipes on my android cellphone, and I saw a certain recipe that caught my eye. It was a simple dish. Chicken wrapped in prosciutto and provolone cheese, with some white wine cooked off, fried in a fry pan. Other than that, I couldn't remember anything about it. So today I decided to take what I remembered, with a few changes I thought of, and roll with it.

(Ingredients)

  Light Cooking Oil
  Thinly Sliced Chicken Breasts
  Italian Seasoning
  Garlic Powder
  Provolone Cheese (thinly sliced)
  Prosciutto Ham (moderate to thinly sliced)
  White Wine

I started off with some light oil in a 300 electric skillet (my stove was currently out of use due to a previous meal), and started frying the chicken breasts. I had cut them to have  a somewhat round shape, which left me with 3 small pieces of chicken that I also threw into the pan to cook. After cooking them fully (leaving a thin brown crust on both sides), I took them off, turned my pan down to about 200, and started preparing them. 2 slices of cheese, and 2 slices of prosciutto per chicken breast, with some Italian seasoning and garlic powder. After that was done, back in the pan they go for about a minute, enough to warm up the prosciutto, melt the cheese, and cook off the whitewine we generously poured onto our chicken for that great flavor. Then it was off to a plate, a little more Italian seasoning for that green look Italian food must have, and it was done.

The finished product:




It was, quite honestly, one of the best Italian dishes I have ever made, and I have ever had.

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