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HungryChris

HungryChris


Add the bit about using chicken leg quarters

Stuffed boneless chicken legs. Boning out the legs gets easier with practice. Google will turn up several demos. The stuffing is garlic cooked spinach, crumbled blue cheese and pine nuts. I like to start out with chicken leg quarters because they give you a little extra skin if you peel it away from the backbone before removing it. The removed bones makes a great gelatinous stock.

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 Roll the whole thing up, starting at the small end so that you can use the flap of skin to overlap. truss it up in string.

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I have done this a few different ways. The string is the most tedious, but produces the best results. Another method is to roll it up on a sheet of aluminum foil and then roll the whole thing up twisting the ends in opposite directions like a tootsie roll. The foil packages are then poached in chicken broth, but the string trussed ones shown here are browned in a skillet. and any unused spinach added along with a few more pine nuts.

5687d13dabfa8_stuffedlegs5.thumb.jpg.174 Then just barely covered in a good tomato sauce and baked at 375 F for 2 hrs and chilled. Once it is chilled, skim off the chicken fat and cut off the strings. Add a little more sauce. Cut in half if the legs were big. Reheat and serve.

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HungryChris

HungryChris


Add the bit about using chicken leg quarters

Stuffed boneless chicken legs. Boning out the legs gets easier with practice. Google will turn up several demos. The stuffing is garlic cooked spinach, crumbled blue cheese and pine nuts. I like to start out with chicken leg quarters because they give you a little extra skin if you peel it away from the backbone before removing it. The removed bones makes a great gelatinous stock.

5687cf429ae95_stuffedlegs1.thumb.jpg.140

 Roll the whole thing up, starting at the small end so that you can use the flap of skin to overlap. truss it up in string.

5687d00e00ff6_stuffedlegs4.thumb.jpg.32a

I have done this a few different ways. The string is the most tedious, but produces the best results. Another method is to roll it up on a sheet of aluminum foil and then roll the whole thing up twisting the ends in opposite directions like a tootsie roll. The foil packages are then poached in chicken broth, but the string trussed ones shown here are browned in a skillet. and any unused spinach added along with a few more pine nuts.

5687d13dabfa8_stuffedlegs5.thumb.jpg.174 Then just barely covered in a good tomato sauce and baked at 375 F for 2 hrs and chilled. Once it is chilled, skim off the chicken fat and cut off the strings. Add a little more sauce. Cut in half if the legs were big. Reheat heat and serve.

Serve.thumb.jpg.733bdb8c00e889c805bdf796

HungryChris

HungryChris

Stuffed boneless chicken legs. Boning out the legs gets easier with practice. Google will turn up several demos. The stuffing is garlic cooked spinach, crumbled blue cheese and pine nuts.

5687cf429ae95_stuffedlegs1.thumb.jpg.140

 Roll the whole thing up, starting at the small end so that you can use the flap of skin to overlap. truss it up in string.

5687d00e00ff6_stuffedlegs4.thumb.jpg.32a

I have done this a few different ways. The string is the most tedious, but produces the best results. Another method is to roll it up on a sheet of aluminum foil and then roll the whole thing up twisting the ends in opposite directions like a tootsie roll. The foil packages are then poached in chicken broth, but the string trussed ones shown here are browned in a skillet. and any unused spinach added along with a few more pine nuts.

5687d13dabfa8_stuffedlegs5.thumb.jpg.174 Then just barely covered in a good tomato sauce and baked at 375 F for 2 hrs and chilled. Once it is chilled, skim off the chicken fat and cut off the strings. Add a little more sauce. Cut in half if the legs were big. Reheat heat and serve.

Serve.thumb.jpg.733bdb8c00e889c805bdf796

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