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Title: Apple Stuffed Chicken Breasts
Categories: None
Yield: 6 Servings

6 Boneless; skinless, split
-chicken breasts
1 1/2 c Diced red or green apples;
-(about 2 apples)
1/4 c Golden seedless raisins
1/4 c Chopped walnuts
3 tb Minced onion
2/3 ts Dried sage
Melted butter or margarine
-for brushing

-----------------------------------GLAZE-----------------------------------
4 tb (1/2 stick) butter or
-margarine
1/3 c Apple jelly
1/4 c Orange juice concentrate;
-undiluted
1/4 c Dry sherry

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease baking pan and set aside.
Place chicken breasts between sheets of plastic wrap and pound with meat
mallet to 1/4-inch thickness. Set aside

Place apples, raisins, nuts, onion, and sage in bowl and stir to combine.
Place 1 tablespoon apple mixture in center of each breast ad roll up,
enclosing filling completely. Secure with wooden toothpicks and place,
seam-side-down, in single layer in prepared pan. Brush with melted butter
and set aside.

To make glaze, melt 4 tablespoons butter in small saucepan and stir in
apple jelly, orange juice, and sherry. Simmer 3 minutes until jelly is
completely melted.

Bake chicken in preheated oven, basting frequently with glaze, 30-45
minutes or until no longer pink inside. Remove toothpicks before serving.

(Recipe from Gold Kist Farms)

Posted to EAT-L Digest by Al & Diane Johnson on Jan
18, 1998