Chicken En Croute

Posted by Penny Moline on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 Under: Chicken, poultry and such

One package Puff Pastry
4 chicken breast, cut and trim any fat away
1 bag of fresh baby spinach or 1 small carton of frozen spinach ( best value)
1 shallot or small onion diced small
1 cup of mushrooms diced small
1 8 ounce package of cream cheese

egg wash ( equal parts milk and water)

Season chicken with salt and pepper, garlic powder, Italian seasoning, what ever floats your boat

Grill mark the chicken, but do not fully cook... this is an extra step that I like to do
set aside

In a saute pan with olive oil and butter mixture cook diced shallots until almost translucent, add mushrooms, then add spinach, squeese out as much of the liquid as you can

add cream cheese to mixture.. use more or less depending on your taste and season with salt and pepper

Cut puff pastry into squares that will fold over the chicken... usually about 4 per sheet.

To assemble:

Place about a 1/4 cup of spinach/cream cheese mixture on square of puff pastry.
Add grilled chicken breast

Fold puff pastry completely around chicken.  Don't worry how the seams look as they are going to go down on the sheet pan.

Flip over the puff pasty bundle onto a lined ( parchment paper) or sprayed sheet pan

brush with egg wash

I like to make designs with any remaining puff pasty and put it on the top after the egg wash. 

Bake in a preheated oven at 400 degrees until chicken reaches an internal temp of 160
let rest for 10 min. before serving

Serve with a supreme sauce.

FANCY.... but very easy!  You can get creative with the filling... use roasted red peppers, articokes, what ever you like...



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Chicken En Croute

Posted by Penny Moline on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 Under: Chicken, poultry and such

One package Puff Pastry
4 chicken breast, cut and trim any fat away
1 bag of fresh baby spinach or 1 small carton of frozen spinach ( best value)
1 shallot or small onion diced small
1 cup of mushrooms diced small
1 8 ounce package of cream cheese

egg wash ( equal parts milk and water)

Season chicken with salt and pepper, garlic powder, Italian seasoning, what ever floats your boat

Grill mark the chicken, but do not fully cook... this is an extra step that I like to do
set aside

In a saute pan with olive oil and butter mixture cook diced shallots until almost translucent, add mushrooms, then add spinach, squeese out as much of the liquid as you can

add cream cheese to mixture.. use more or less depending on your taste and season with salt and pepper

Cut puff pastry into squares that will fold over the chicken... usually about 4 per sheet.

To assemble:

Place about a 1/4 cup of spinach/cream cheese mixture on square of puff pastry.
Add grilled chicken breast

Fold puff pastry completely around chicken.  Don't worry how the seams look as they are going to go down on the sheet pan.

Flip over the puff pasty bundle onto a lined ( parchment paper) or sprayed sheet pan

brush with egg wash

I like to make designs with any remaining puff pasty and put it on the top after the egg wash. 

Bake in a preheated oven at 400 degrees until chicken reaches an internal temp of 160
let rest for 10 min. before serving

Serve with a supreme sauce.

FANCY.... but very easy!  You can get creative with the filling... use roasted red peppers, articokes, what ever you like...



In : Chicken, poultry and such 



let me know what you think of the recipes and how I can improve my site.. These are my favorite recipes... and I hope you love them as much as I do... Please let me know... and if there is something you would like to know about cooking... I will do my best to answer questions for you...If I don't know. I will find out!

Cooking with Passion


Penny Moline A little about myself to get started..I got my first job cooking at the age of 14..at the snack bar across the street from my high school.. I am a graduate of an ACF (American Culinary Federation) Culinary Arts program...I have a degree with honors in Culinary Arts.... I have been teaching at a local college since 2002.( Oh and I was lucky enough to get to go to Paris and take a pastry and danish class too). During the 2002 winter Olympics I was the Executive. Pastry chef at the only fine dining restaurant in the media center. That was so exciting. I have worked in fine dining restaurants, and worked for a manufacturing rep company.. I was the product specialist for Kitchenaid and Weber grills...and got to do the training on my two wonderful products. Tough job...but someone got be be lucky enough to do it! Everything I have done... I have loved! Teaching has been the greatest. What a dream job. I have students that want to learn all they can about cooking. Our school is a production based program, which allows the students to get a lot of hands on training. We run a restaurant that serves fresh bread of the day, soup, salad, (and salad bar), an ever changing entree and dessert daily. So the students not only makes bread from scratch once or twice like some schools they make it more than a dozen times before their rotation is changed. I know we are doing a great job as the local police eat there almost daily. Plus...my program is full and we now have a waiting list to get in. Not too shabby I would say. Several of our students have won national and local cooking and baking awards... what can I say? I love to cook.... I really love my job...and I would like to feed the world with one recipe at a time! I It is really rewarding to love what you do...and to have passion for it. You don't have to make pretentious food to make good food. You just need to use fresh ingredients...and use what is in season. Most importantly...you need to love to eat...and then the passion for cooking is there...Don't let cooking intimidate . you...YOU CAN COOK...and remember this KISS (keep it simple silly).. Let me know what you think! My email is chefpennymoline@gmail.com

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