greek chicken and spinach roulade with lemon butter sauce
I came up with this recipe after making steak gyros, I always end up with left over tzatziki sauce and always ended up throwing some away. This was born out of the hate of wasted good food.
prep time
20 Min
cook time
35 Min
method
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yield
4 serving(s)
Ingredients
- 1 cup feta cheese
- 1 cup greek yogurt
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 4 tablespoons lemon juice ( juice of two lemons)
- 2 dashes favorite hot sauce
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon coriander
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- - salt and pepper
- 1 to 1/2 pounds boneless breast of chicken
- 1 package baby spinach
- 1 1/2 cups panko bread crumbs
- 2 large eggs
- 1 small onion diced
- 3-4 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 stick butter
- 2 teaspoons parsley
- 1 tablespoon capers
- 1/4 cup kalamata olives sliced thin or diced
How To Make greek chicken and spinach roulade with lemon butter sauce
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Step 1In a food processor combine feta, yogurt, garlic, juice of one lemon (two tbls), hot sauce, oregeno, cumin, coriander and salt and pepper to taste. Blend well and set aside. This is your tzatziki sauce. (Reserve half for steak gyros)
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Step 2In a large saute pan heat 2 tbls olive oil and saute onion until soft. add garlic and baby spinach and saute until wilted down. Add capers and sliced olives and pepper to taste
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Step 3Put spinach mixture in bowl and add 1 cup of tzatziki sauce and
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Step 4Pound out chicken breast thin and put 1/4 of the spinach/tzatziki sauce mixture per breast at one end of chicken then roll chicken into a log and secure with tooth picks
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Step 5Prepare 2 dishes for coating. (I find pie plates the easiest) One with 2 eggs whisked and one with the cup or so of panko
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Step 6heat the same saute pan that the spinach was sauted in with rest of olive oil
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Step 7dip each roulade in egg wash then panko crumbs and Place a rack on baking sheet, place rolades on rack and bake at 375 degrees for 35 minutes
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Step 8While chicken is resting Melt butter 2tlbs of the lemon juice 2 cloves of minced garlic and parsley in a saucepan and put in serving dish to drizzle over roulades
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