Ballotine a French cuisine dish made of deboned poultry (usually chicken) with ground meat stuffing. The other common stuffing ingredients is mushrooms, veggies and cheese. Ballotine is similiar to sausage with poultry meat casing. The “sausage” is tied up to keep the shape with butcher twines. Ballotine can be cooked by roasting, braising or poaching, depend on your preference. I like to roast chicken breast with some liquid attach in the bottom, i guess this can make ke chicken skin crisp up and the meat didn’t drain out too much.
Today i made a ballotine with chicken breast. The chicken breast is butterflied first then gently flatened with meat mallet until 1 cm thick. For a fancy looks, i like to the keep wings bone attach with the chicken breast and fully eksposed it. You can use the wings meat for stuffing too, vo need to worry about it. For the stuffing i use my powdered porcini mushroom after i’ve made my Smoked Lamb Chop with PORCINI Mushrooms Crusted, I mix it with minced chicken meat and skin, cheese and a little of breadcrumbs.
Ingredient:
Chicken Ballotine Recipe:
- 1/2 deboned, skin in chicken breast (about 300 gr), butterflied, flattened
- 1 tbsp porcini mushrooms powder
- smoked seasalt and blackpepper to taste
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 large tomatoes, finely chopped
- 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
- 1 clove shallot, finely chopped
- a pinch of italian mix herbs
- a pinch of oregano
- cotton twines
Chicken Ballotine Stuffing Recipe:
- 100 gr fresh spinach leaves, sauteed, squeezed, finely chopped
- 2 tbsp porcini mushrooms powder
- 1/2 tsp powdered cheese
- 70 gr chicken meat, finely chopped
- 30 gr chicken skin, finely chopped
- 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
- 1 clove shallot, finely chopped
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 tsp bread crumbs
How to Make Chicken Breast Ballontine:
- Preheat oven to 180 degree celcius
- Mix all of the stuffing ingredient except the spinach, set aside
- Heat up 1 tbsp oil in a pan, saute the shallot and garlic until slightly browned then add the tomato, italian herbs and oregano and continue sautee until the tomato is soften, set aside
- Put the flattened chicken breast in your chopping board, skin side down, rub it with porcini mushrooms powder, salt and pepper
- Apply the spinach above it then put the rest of the filling ingredient in the middle,
- Gently seal the filling with the chicken breast meat.
- Press out the ballontine chicken to remove any air from the cavity and make sure you did this carefully to prevent the filling spilled out
- Thighten the balontine chicken with cotton twines.
- Heat up 1 tbsp oil in a pan, sear the chicken all over to browned it a lil bit, set aside
- Put the tomato mixture in a roasting pan then put the ballotine chicken sausage above it
- Roast about 20-25 minutes until the ballotine chicken is done.
- Let it rest in the oven until serving then remove the twines and carefully carve it
- Serve it with the tomato mixture, balsamic vinegar reduction and mashed peruvian(purple) sweet potato
I love making Chicken Ballotines and this version sounds very good!
Well actually this is my first ballotine,
i think i’m in love too Tandy…
I’ver never made Chicken Ballontine before! But, I am so excited to try it!
Theres always be the first Kay,
give it a try…..
Fabulous recipe.
🙂 Mandy
Thx Mandy
looks superb. good job! are you sure you wanna be a dentist? 😉
Thx my friend,
i guess i’m preety good too in dentistry…hehehe
This looks like such a fantastic recipe – you did such a wonderful job, the presentation is impeccable and so colorful and delcious! Wonderful!
Thx for such a kind word,
i love any edible colorfull on my plates
wow …. kebayang bgmn masaknya, keren deh …. bikin ngiler lihat foto fotonya di sini 😛
Klo diniatin gampang kok mbak…hehehe
I thought dental school curriculum is very intense, where do you find time for all these fancy cooking? Beautiful presentation. I am a big eater so will have 2 please.
Thx norma, iguess that’s the price for passion,
you’re always welcome in my house…hehehe
Ded, kentang ungu itu koq menggemaskan sekaliii
bukan kentang mbak,
sweet potato itu ubi jalar…. hehehe
I have the whole chicken ballotine on my bucket list. I really want to make it at least once, it´s so good. Your filling sounds amazing, but then anything with porcini is amazing to me! And I love those purple sweet potatoes too.
I guess i saving whole chicken balontine recipes for a huge member of dinner..
i just lived with my grandmother, so iguess the breast is just perfect for us…
An amazing & surely 3 Michelin starred recipe, Dedy! 🙂 Waw! It looks freaking delicous & fabulous even! MMMMMMMMM!
Thx Sophie, give it a try my friend…
What a nice pairing with potatoes and balsamic…I can imagine how tender and moist this is!
Thankyou, give it a try!
i guarantee that you won’t regret it.
Gorgeous. This is something I definitely would like to try!
I guess you wont regret it my friend…..
yummy
Thx
had to pop by to see the purple balls, lol… nice colours and what a feast!
It’s peruvian purple sweet potato, but the supermarket tagged that as japanese purple sweet potato
This ballotine looks so good – absolutely scrumptious.
karbonya dari ubi ungu kog seuprit sih?
When are you going to stop this torture! look at all your posts, everything is so drool worthy, dishes done in utmost perfection. I should have taken dinner first before I go here, now I am really hungry.
produksi saliva meningkat dalam sekejap..huuu, pasti lezat makanan ini
Jadi laperrrrr
sweet potato itu ubi ungu ya to?
iya to, ubi manis atau ubi rambat ungu…hehehe
Lovely flavours and ingredients 😀
Cheers
CCU