First I tried: casserole chicken and basil
I got something slightly interesting but not what I was looking for but it had goat cheese in it, which I happen to love and actually have on hand.
Next search: basil noodles goat cheese
and voila a Cooks.com recipe:
CHICKEN BREASTS STUFFED WITH GOAT CHEESE AND BASIL
CHICKEN BREASTS STUFFED WITH GOAT CHEESE AND BASIL Printed from COOKS.COM 4 boneless chicken breast halves, skinned 1/2 c. fresh goat cheese, about 4 oz. 2 green onions, thinly sliced 3 basil leaves, shredded or 1 tsp. dried, crumbled 1 egg, beaten to blend 1/2 c. dry bread crumbs 2 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Pound chicken between sheets of waxed paper to 1/4" thickness. Pat chicken dry. Combine cheese, green onions and basil in small bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Spread chicken mixture lengthwise over half of each chicken piece. Tuck short ends in. Roll chicken up, starting at one long side, into tight cylinders. Tie ends with string to serve. Dip chicken in egg, allowing excess to drip into bowl. Roll in bread crumbs, shaking off excess. Place chicken in an 8" square baking dish. Pour 2 tablespoons melted butter over. Bake until cooked through, about 20 minutes. Serves 4. |
Sounded good to me and I had everything to make it on hand, except for string to tie the chicken rolls up. I also subbed in chives instead of green onions. Since it was just me tonight I decided to only use 1 chicken breast, butterflied it in half and made two rolls using half the filling. The other half of the filling I decided would sound good put over pasta with diced tomatoes. This worked out extremely well but required more filling for the amount of pasta I used. I garnished it with yet more basil and cooked up the egg used to dip the chicken. It turns out the chicken when cut thin and pounded did not need to be tied and stayed together just fine. The chicken was good, but the pasta was excellent, I will definitely make this one again as the pasta was super quick to make.
Pasta:
Goat cheese, basil, chives, salt, pepper - amounts to taste
1 can of diced tomatoes
Stir goat cheese into warm pasta after straining and add remaining ingredients to taste.
I probably used about 4-6 ounces of goat cheese for about 2 dry cereal bowls of egg noodles. Cooked it ended up filling a 1.5 qt bowl.
The presentation of the pasta is not spectacular, so next time I might try layering the tomatoes in with the pasta or topping pasta with tomatoes after stirring in herbs and goat cheese.
