Skip to main content
Main

Chicken Roll

A chicken breast rolled with ricotta, parmesan, and parsley, baked in a tomato sauce with celery, mushrooms, carrots, onions, and garlic.

From the Recipes Wiki (Fandom) · 15 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Celery and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Chicken Roll

Time40 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Spray a cold large saucepan with non-stick spray coating.

  2. Add celery, mushrooms, carrot, onion, and garlic.

  3. Cook until onion is tender.

  4. Cut up tomatoes.

  5. Stir undrained tomatoes, tomato sauce, oregano, thyme, and sugar into vegetables.

  6. Bring to a boil; reduce heat.

  7. Simmer, uncovered, 20 minutes or until mixture is reduced to 2 cups.

Prepare the rolls

  1. Skin, bone, and cut chicken breasts lengthwise in half.

  2. Place each chicken piece between two pieces of plastic wrap and pound with a meat mallet to about 1/4 inch thickness.

  3. In a bowl, stir together ricotta cheese, parmesan cheese, and parsley.

  4. Spoon about 1 ½ tablespoons of the cheese mixture on each chicken piece.

  5. Fold in the long sides of the chicken piece then roll up from the short end.

Bake and serve

  1. Place the chicken rolls, seam side down, in a baking dish and pour sauce over chicken.

  2. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours.

  3. Bake, covered, for 40 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink.

  4. Sprinkle with mozzarella cheese; bake 4 minutes more.

  5. Transfer to platter.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

709Calories
64 gProtein
28 gFat
48 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Ricotta Cheese1/2 cup (124g) part-skim174
Chicken100g cooked165
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Oregano1 tsp dried (1.8g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from the Recipes Wiki (Fandom).

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Celery + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Carrot + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Chicken breasts
Forms the main protein that wraps around the cheese filling and cooks through.
Ricotta cheese
Adds creamy moisture to the filling so it stays soft during baking.
Parmesan cheese
Contributes salty, savoury flavour and helps the filling brown slightly.
Mozzarella cheese
Melts over the top during the final bake for a stretchy, golden finish.
Tomatoes
Provide acidity and body to the sauce that the rolls bake in.
Mushrooms
Add savoury depth and moisture to the sauce as they cook down.

The step that matters

Pound the chicken to even thickness. Uneven chicken cooks unevenly, leaving thick parts undercooked while thin parts dry out. Even thickness lets the roll cook through at the same rate and stay tender.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (celery, mushroom, carrot, onion, garlic, tomato, sauce):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against celery, mushroom, carrot, onion, garlic, tomato, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

You might also like

Tomato SoupTomato Soup526 recipesChicken BrothChicken Broth257 recipesChicken SoupChicken Soup156 recipesCarrot SoupCarrot Soup134 recipes