Chicken with fig & goats’ cheese wrapped in Parma ham

Name: Chicken with fig & goats’ cheese wrapped in Parma ham
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 recipe quantity Green Salad or a mixed leaf salad, to serve; 1 recipe quantity Green Salad or a mixed leaf salad, to serve; boiled and buttered new potatoes, to serve; boiled and buttered new potatoes, to serve; 100 g/3½ oz soft goats’ cheese, crumbled; 1 tbsp olive oil; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 4 skinless chicken breasts; 8 strips of Parma ham (prosciutto); 8 strips of Parma ham (prosciutto); 8 fresh figs, sliced

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
35 min

Appears in

The Good Chicken Cookbook

By Marcus Bean

Published 2024

About

This is such a simple recipe but so effective and delicious that it can take centre stage at your next dinner party for friends. The stuffing and the Parma ham wrap both help to keep the meat beautifully moist as well as imparting plenty of flavour.

Ingredients

4 skinless chicken breasts
8 strips of Parma ham (prosciutto)
8 fresh f

Main course
Dinner
Gluten-free

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6. Make a horizontal slit down each chicken breast, making sure you don’t cut right through. Open up the chicken breasts as flat as possible and place each one on 2 strips of Parma ham.

Mix together the figs and goats’ cheese, then put one-qu