With these delicious chicken fillets in puff pastry, you can cut a fine figure at any party or other celebration for your guests, because this ingenious recipe is very simple despite everything. It is characterized by a wide variety of flavor components.
Especially on festive days, you want to surprise your friends and acquaintances with something special. But this doesn’t have to be complicated at all. This chicken fillet in puff pastry is sophisticated but still captivates with its simplicity and is also delicious and extremely delicate. This is evoked by the tender chicken fillets, sweet apricots, and tangy gorgonzola wrapped in a crispy puff pastry.
Ingredients for 4 persons
– 4 rectangular sheets of frozen puff pastry
– 200 grams of Gorgonzola
– 4 apricots
– 800 g chicken fillet
– 1 egg
– some olive oil for frying
– Salt; pepper
– some breadcrumbs
Preparation
Place the four sheets of puff pastry on a baking tray lined with baking paper so that they can defrost a little. Then fry the chicken fillets (there should be four chicken fillets, each weighing 200 g) in a pan with hot olive oil. Season the chicken fillets on both sides with salt and pepper.
After roasting, spread the chicken fillets on the puff pastry. However, this should be sprinkled with the breadcrumbs beforehand.
Then cover the chicken fillets with the apricots and the gorgonzola. Then a pocket must be formed from the puff pastry that completely encloses the chicken fillets. Press down well with your fingers so that no gorgonzola can spill out. Finally, brush the edges of the puff pastry pockets with the egg. You should whisk it up a little first.
The puff pastry pockets then have to go in the oven for 25 minutes.
A dry red wine is recommended as a drink.
Useful additional knowledge
A delicious salad dressing for leafy salads can be made from the remaining apricots. Simply puree the remaining apricots from the can. Then season them with mustard, vinegar, and oil. A salad can be a delicious and healthy accompaniment to the chicken fillets in puff pastry. Roasted potatoes or delicious almond rice also go well with this. This can easily be fried a little in hot butter with roasted almonds. This gives a particularly delicious aroma.
Fresh apricots can also be used in summer, but you should skin them beforehand. If you want to make a dressing from these apricots, you should add a little sugar.
