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?

2 comments:

  1. Sage is really good on red meat though!!

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  2. I know - good on chicken too, but not as the main ingredient apparently...needed more kick. ;-)

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