I'll admit it. This is a strange one. You see I had a couple of chicken fillets in the freezer, and no idea of what to do with them. Now I'm not one of those amazing people who can just look in the cupboard, throw a few assorted ingredients into a dish and then come up with something that you'd pay big bucks for in a five star restaurant. My husband - he can. Me - I cannot.
So, like all unimaginative and truly uninspired cooks, I turned to the internet. After scrolling through pages and pages of sites that talked about spices and exotic flavours (these people obviously have no kids - or highly cultured ones), I eventually found a recipe that was just called "Chicken Breast Fillets". A quick glance at the ingredients. Good. Nothing there that I couldn't pronounce, and all I had to buy was bacon. Bring it on!
Now this recipe called for the bacon to be chopped and the chicken to be sliced lengthways. Hmmm. Never heard of that before with chicken, but oh well, when it comes to cooking, there's a great deal I've never heard of before. So I duly followed the recipe.
Begin with a layer of fresh breadcrumbs. Follow with a layer of bacon. Finish with a layer of chicken. Just keep layering. Okay, I can do that.
Meanwhile, make the sauce. I followed the instructions for the sauce, but somewhere along the way, something dreadful happened and I ended up with very little sauce for such a large dish. What to do? I know. I'm rather fond of the old Fountain brand Smokey BBQ sauce, and luckily we had a fresh bottle. So, with all the panache and style of the classy chef that I'm not, I squirted the sauce randomly over the chicken. (That's the brown stripes you can see.)
Forty minutes later, a dish that looked, well, interesting. And the taste? Well you could describe that as interesting too. The general consensus was that the breadcrumbs were the best bit. Let's face it. You can't beat crunchy, crispy breadcrumbs!
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