Chicken filet with apple filling

AUTHOR
Arlie Wyatt
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 3
COOK TIME
60 mins
TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 1 medium-sized apple
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Raisins
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice
  • 4 Chicken fillets (approx. 150 g each)
  • 7-10 Tbsp salt and pepper
  • 2-3 (approx. 750 g) Fennel tubers
  • 1 TABLESPOON Oil
  • 1/8 l apple juice
  • 1 TEASPOON Chicken broth
  • 2-3 TABLESPOONS sauce thickener
  • 400 g fresh spaetzle (refrigerated shelf)
  • 4-5 Stem(s) Parsley
  • 7-10 Tbsp wooden skewers

Directions

  1. 1

    Wash, quarter, core and finely dice the apple. Wash and dab the raisins. Mix both with 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Wash fillets, dab dry. Cut one pocket in each. Season, fill with 1-2 tbsp. apple mixture and pin.

  2. 2

    Clean the fennel, put some tender green aside. Wash and quarter the fennel and cut into thin slices.

  3. 3

    Heat the oil in a coated pan. Fry the fillets for 2-3 minutes on each side. Remove (put frying fat aside) and place in an ovenproof dish. Continue roasting in the preheated oven (electric range: 175°C/circulating air: 150°C/gas: level 2) for 8-10 minutes.

  4. 4

    Steam 4 fennels covered in little boiling salted water for 6-8 minutes.

  5. 5

    Heat the chicken frying fat. Stir in 1/4 l water, apple juice and stock. Bring to the boil and simmer for 3-4 minutes. Bind with sauce thickener, bring to the boil and season to taste.

  6. 6

    Put the spaetzle in plenty of boiling salted water and let it simmer for about 2 minutes. Wash and chop the parsley. Drain the spaetzle and stir in the parsley. Drain the fennel, season with 1 tbsp. lemon juice, salt and pepper.

  7. 7

    Arrange everything, garnish with fennel green.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
440 kcal
CARBS
46 g
FATS
8 g
PROTEINS
44 g