Stuffed Smoked Chicken ManiCotti!

[Derek]

Hi gang,

I have used the left over Smoked chicken from my chicken practice to make Smoked Chicken Manicotti.

Here's the recipe ( It's pretty much a small recipe )

1 Cup of Marscapone Cheese.
1 cup of Ricotta Cheese.
3 oz Room temp Cream cheese cubed.
4 Smoked chicken thighs.
1, egg beaten.
1/4 cup of fresh chives "first half 1/4th cup for the filling right before you start filling the manicotti. )

Ok First pull the meat off the chicken, place it in the food proc.

2, Pulse the chicken until it look like bacon bits.

4, Get a big bowl. Empty the chicken in to the bowl set aside.

4, Take all your cheeses & the egg, Toss them in the food proc.

5, Pulse Until smooth and well blended.

6, Now add the ground chicken about a cup will do, You may want to add more if you are a chicken lover.

7, Pulse Again until the chicken is well blended.

8, Transfer to a bowl set in the fridge until needed.























More updates later.

[sfisch]

Pretty good idea for use of the chicken, not sure I would have ground it up so much, bigger chunks but don't know the size of the shells you are stuffing it into.
Good work.

Scott

[Derek]

Thank you Scott,

This way I will not waste left over bbq

Anyway here is a small update,

Now I will not hand out my tomato sauce recipe since it's the base sauce ( House sauce ) for all my tomato based sauces.

here we have a onion, shallot, 2 garlic cloves.


Chopp the garlic.


Saute the onion, garlic cloves, shallot.


Add chicken stock, Hunts no salt tomato paste.


Mix well, Mix until you get the consistency just right for the Marinara sauce.


Blend until smooth.


Add the remaining ground chicken to the sauce.


And it should look like this.


I'll show the final update when we are ready to eat!

[sfisch]

Hmmm,
I have a pot of chicken gizzards simmering in chicken stock. Took me about a minute to whip up.
Looks really good Derek!

[Derek]

Originally Posted by sfisch

Hmmm,
I have a pot of chicken gizzards simmering in chicken stock. Took me about a minute to whip up.
Looks really good Derek!

That's how I make my stock when I am not lazy or Sick.


By the way, The sauce & the filling is really good tasting with a little smoke-ness.

Thanks Scott.

[jerry516planes]

Looks Really Good!

Why are you wasting time on left overs???? LOL!

[Derek]

Thank you Jerry, What else am I suppose to do with the chicken? Eat it whole again, LOL!

[Derek]

Ok Final update.

Sauced the pan.


Filled my gun with the filling.


Stuffed the manicotti, the left over filling I used as a topping.


I used Dutch Gouda, Parm cheese on the rind mix.


Baked at 350 for 40 minutes.


Plated and ate. Nothing left over, I do have one bad comment about the dish. I didn't cover the pasta well and the ends were a little hard, otherwise AWESOME DISH.


I'll make the dish again but this next I'll over sauce it a bit so the ends will not be hard.

[Tommyc]

Have to say that is a very good use of left over chicken and a top five post for you.

[Derek]

Thank you Tommy, I can make nothing out of something. Also make the something into a 5 star dish