Goat Cheese, Spinach and Sun Dried Tomato Chicken Roulade

The weeknight dinner is often tough.  It requires planning your meals ahead of time so that you have all of the groceries in house and getting home from work early enough and with enough energy to actually force yourself to cook.  It is not always an easy feat to accomplish this and make something that actually looks like you put effort into it.  This is where the chicken roulade comes in.  Baked chicken breast sounds boring, but chicken stuffed with cheese and vegetables sounds much more interesting.  The best part about this is you can take a weeknight where you have minimal groceries in the house, and throw together what you have to make an interesting dish.  Consider broccoli and cream cheese, ham and brie, bacon and just about anything. You can turn a simple boring chicken breast into what looks like a complicated meal with interest with minimal effort.

Goat Cheese, Spinach, Sun Dried Tomato Chicken Roulade
Ingredients
3 chicken breasts
1 cup spinach, roughly torn
6 pieces sun dried tomato, sliced
2 tbs goat cheese
Salt
Pepper

Heat the oven to 450 ºF.
Lay the chicken breasts, one at a time, in between two sheets of wax paper. Beat until about 1/4” thick.  Try not to tear the chicken while beating.  Divide the spinach, sun dried tomatoes, and goat cheese among the chicken breasts and place on the wide side of the breast.  Roll the chicken tightly over the filling towards you, tucking in the filling as you go.  Place the rolled chicken breasts with the seam down on a broiler pan to keep them from unrolling.  Season the chicken breasts with salt and pepper.
Bake for 25 minutes.  Allow to rest for 5 minutes before slicing.

Why use a broiler pan?
The broiler pan is an underutilized kitchen utensil but now that people are more health conscience it really should be something that gets brought out regularly. By cooking meats on the broiler pan all of the fats just drain right out and away from the food. If you cook meats at a high temperature and allow them to rest there is absolutely no reason to be concerned with dry meats.