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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Toast pine nuts 5 minutes, until lightly browned. Reserve. | 2. Put washed spinach in skillet, cover. Steam about 2 minutes. Place in strainer, rinse with cold water and squeeze as much liquid out as possible. Chop medium fine. | 3. Heat butter in skillet, saute shallots until soft. | 4. Increase oven to 375 degrees. | 5. Butter a shallow baking dish. | 6. Mix pine nuts, spinach, shallots, ricotta cheese, egg yolk and pepper. | 7. Pound chicken breasts slightly. | 8. Place 1/.2 slice prosciutto on each breast, followed by 1/6 of filling. Fold in half. Place in buttered baking dish. | 9. Mix melted butter and lemon juice. Spoon over chicken breasts. Bake, basting occassionally, for 30 minutes (or until tender). Remove to platter and keep warm. | 10. Make sauce: Melt butter in skillet, saute mushrooms 3 minutes. Remove mushrooms. | 11. Add stock to skillet, boil until rediced to 1/4 cup. Add wine, boil until reduced to 1/2 cup. Add cream, boil until reduced to 3/4 cup. | 12. Return mushrooms to sauce. | 13. Add whatever juices have accumulated in chicken dish to sauce. Bring to boil, stirring. Add basil. | 14. Serve chicken breasts on platter. Pass sauce separately. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
chicken breast	6	boneless	skinless boneless	-	-	-	-
prosciutto	3	slices		-	-	-	-
pine nut	1/4	cup		227.1375	4.4145	4.6204	23.0749
spinach	1		trimmed	33.0	5.85	3.3	0.45
shallot	3		minced	345.6	80.64	12.0	0.48
ricotta cheese	1/2	cup		215.76	3.7696	13.9624	16.0952
pesto sauce	1/4	cup		263.34	6.3567	6.1929	23.688000000000002
egg yolk	1			54.74	0.6103	2.6962	4.5118
pepper	1/8	teaspoon		0.7216	0.1839	0.0299	0.0094
butter	3	tablespoons	unsalted melted	256.5	11.7855	8.0145	21.6
lemon juice	3	tablespoons		10.065	3.1568	0.1601	0.1098
butter	3	tablespoons	unsalted	256.5	11.7855	8.0145	21.6
mushroom	1/2		sliced	-	-	-	-
chicken stock	1	cup		86.4	8.472000000000001	6.047999999999999	2.88
white wine	3/4	cup		-	-	-	-
whipping cream	1/2	cup		175.2	1.776	1.3019999999999998	18.546
basil	2	tablespoons	chopped	1.219	0.1404	0.16699999999999998	0.0339

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.