We are all connected...to each other, to the earth, to the animals we attract to our gardens, and to the food we eat. This blog details my trials and tribulations as I continually experiment with growing all of my own vegetables, herbs and fruit, exploring the sustainable lifestyle in Illinois.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Sage pesto in chicken roulade
We have two beautiful sage plants in the flower garden area. They attract pollinators and bloom with a pretty blue/purple flower. The sage itself I never seem to find a use for except turkey baking and stuffing at Thanksgiving. I dry it and sprinkle on chicken with other seasonings, but I'm using so little. This last year I decided to make sage pesto. So today I took farmer Nick's chicken breast - deboned and deskinned it - then beat it to about 1/4 in thick....maybe less. Spread the sage pesto on it, with a pressed garlic clove, salt and some ground homegrown basil and oregano, dried tomatoes, and asiago. Rolled it up and baked it. My recommendation - try another recipe. It didn't cut it. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great. Maybe the sage is best as a bee magnet. That's fine, we need to keep the pollinators happy after all, don't we?
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Sage is really good on red meat though!!
ReplyDeleteI know - good on chicken too, but not as the main ingredient apparently...needed more kick. ;-)
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