Steamed chicken breast stuffed with vegetables, with tangerine sauce
4 servings
60 minutes
Chicken loves fruit, and it gets along especially well with tangerines, the juice of which saturates the dry meat of the breast well.
1
Prepare all the ingredients.
2
Break the broccoli into small florets.
- Broccoli cabbage: 120 g
3
Finely chop the shallots and garlic, and dice the red pepper into 7 mm cubes.
- Shallots: 50 g
- Garlic: 1 clove
- Sweet pepper: 1 piece
4
Mix the vegetables with feta cheese.
- Feta cheese: 200 g
5
Salt and pepper the chicken fillet to taste. Make a deep cut on the side of each breast to create a pocket. Fill this pocket with vegetable filling.
- Chicken fillet: 4 pieces
- Salt: to taste
- Ground black pepper: to taste
6
Preheat the grill pan, grease it with vegetable oil, and cook the breasts on one side for 2 minutes to get a golden grill pattern on the meat.
- Chicken fillet: 4 pieces
7
Place the stuffed breasts in the steamer and cook for 20 minutes.
- Chicken fillet: 4 pieces
8
For the sauce, peel the mandarins and blend the pulp.
- Tangerines: 8 pieces
9
Strain through a sieve, pour the mandarin juice into a saucepan, add sugar, several large pieces of ginger, cardamom, and a star anise. Reduce the juice by three times.
- Tangerines: 8 pieces
- Sugar: 2 tablespoons
- Ginger: 40 g
- Cardamom: 3 pieces
- Anise (star anise): 1 piece
10
At the end, add butter to the sauce over low heat and melt it while stirring actively.
- Butter: 20 g
11
Pour the cooked chicken breasts with mandarin sauce and serve.