Chicken Wellington with honey-roasted root vegetables

Name: Chicken Wellington with honey-roasted root vegetables
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 1 h
Ingredients: 8 slices of pancetta; 4 skinless chicken breasts, fillets removed; 1 recipe quantity Honey-Roasted Root Vegetables; a little flour, for dusting; 200 g/7 oz Rough Puff Pastry or puff pastry, thawed if frozen; 1 tsp milk; 1 egg; 200 g/7 oz Rough Puff Pastry or puff pastry, thawed if frozen; 200 g/7 oz spinach leaves

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr

Appears in

The Good Chicken Cookbook

By Marcus Bean

Published 2024

About

I couldn’t resist trying a chicken version of that classic, beef Wellington, as pastry and meat are just made to go together. It goes with almost any vegetables, but these honey-roasted root vegetables are my first choice. The fillets that are removed are the thin strips underneath the chicken breasts - use them for another dish.

Ingredients

200 g/7 oz spinach leaves
200 g/7

Method

Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/Gas 5. Rinse and drain the spinach, then put it in a saucepan with just the water clinging to the leaves. Put over a medium heat until softened, then drain.

Quarter the pastry, then roll each piece into a 20cm/8in diameter circle on a lightly flo