British Pub Style Hunters Chicken Recipe

British pub favourite hunters chicken with BBQ sauce, cheddar cheese and bacon with polenta chips.

British Pub Style Hunters Chicken Recipe

Cheese-stuffed hunters chicken was a stalwart on British pub menus throughout much of the 90s and 00s; it is a simple, delicious and easy dish to make at home!

Course Main Course

Cuisine British

Keyword British hunters chicken, hunters chicken, hunters chicken with BBQ sauce and cheddar cheese, pub style hunters chicken

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 30

Resting Time 5

Total Time 50

Servings Servings

Calories 757kcal

Author Brian Jones

Ingredients

2 Skinless Chicken Breasts 400g Total
6-8 Slices Streaky Bacon 100g Total
100 g Cheddar Cheese 1 Cup
6 tablespoon BBQ sauce
2 tablespoon Tomato Passata
2 tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce
⅛ teaspoon Tabasco Sauce To Taste
½ teaspoon Black Pepper

Instructions

Cut 35g of cheddar (around a quarter) from the block, grate it and set aside.
Cut the remaining 65g into two pieces; you are looking to make a block roughly three-quarters of the length of the chicken breast.
Take a chicken breast and slice it with a long, sharp knife on the long side of the breast roughly halfway through the breast. Fold open the chicken like a book and season the inside with lots of black pepper.
Between the bacon, cheese and BBQ sauce, I do not think additional salt is required, but if you want to, now is the time to add salt.
Place the cheese in the chicken, then fold it back into its original shape.
Season the outside of the chicken breast generously with pepper.
If your bacon is standard bacon from a supermarket, it will be a little too thick to wrap the chicken nicely, so scrape it with the blunt side of a knife to stretch it and thin it out a little.
Starting on the underside of the chicken, begin wrapping the chicken breast in the bacon, continuing on where the previous slice finished to wrap it up completely in a single layer of bacon.
Repeat with the second chicken breast and place them in a baking dish. Pop it in the oven and bake at 180°C or 350°F (fan mode) or 200°C or 400°F (normal mode) for 15 minutes.
Mix together the bbq sauce, tomato passata, Worcestershire sauce, and Tabasco. Add the last two whilst tasting to get the sauce right for you.
After the chicken has been cooking for 10 minutes, pour this sauce over the chicken and then sprinkle the remaining cheese over the chicken.
Return to the oven and cook for another 15 minutes or so at 200°C or 400°F (fan mode) or 200°C or 400°F (normal mode). Until a thick part of the chicken breast reaches 68-69°C or around 155°F.
Be careful to ensure that you are measuring the temperature of the chicken and not the cheese. Remove from the oven and rest for 5-7 minutes or until the temperature reaches 73°C or 165°F.

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