Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Quick Greek Chicken Wraps

Needed something quick and easy last night, so I decided to make some Greek-inspired chicken wraps.

Ingredients:
Spinach flatbread
Deli rotisserie chicken
Artichoke garlic hummus
Tomato

I simply sliced the tomato, shredded the chicken, spread some hummus on the flatbread and assembled the wraps. You'll probably want a little salt and pepper in there, and some Tzatziki sauce would have been a good addition as well.

I've made a similar dish before by cooking chicken breasts or thinly cut steak with onions and peppers, also a good variation.

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Thursday, May 8, 2008

Puff Pastry Chicken

I was watching a little 30 minute meals the other day and caught a recipe for chicken cooked then wrapped in puff pastry with some goat cheese. I thought it looked pretty good, so I decided to make something similar. The puff pastry intimidated me a little, but it was actually as easy to work with as crescent roll dough.

I seasoned my chicken breasts with Kosher salt, fresh pepper, garlic powder, Lawry's seasoning and some McCormick's grill seasoning. I then preheated just a little bit of olive oil in my skillet and cooked the chicken.

While the chicken was cooking I got my puff pastry out of the freezer and let it start to thaw, as well as preheat the oven.

Once the chicken was done I turned off the heat and let them rest while the dough finished thawing.

I then put a nice amount of Chevrie on the puff pastry, sprinkled on a little dried rosemary, placed the chicken on top and sealed it all inside the puff pastry.

Wow! The rosemary combined with the flavorful goat cheese and the chicken was amazing, not to mention kind of fancy looking inside the puff pastry pockets. I'll have to invite some friends over and impress them with this dish in the future.