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Double Cherry Chicken Roll Ups

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Serves: 4

Grilling Chicken Main Dishes Barbecue
Ingredients
  • ½ 8 ounce container Marscarpone Cheese
  • ⅓ cup Dried Tart Red Cherries
  • 3 tablespoons Green Onions
  • 4 Boneless Chicken
  • 1 tablespoon Brown Sugar
  • ½ teaspoon Salt
  • ¼ teaspoon Black Pepper
  • 1 recipe Cherry Orange Sauce
  • 1 teaspoon Orange Zest
  • 1 Oranges
  • ¼ cup Orange Juice
  • ½ cup Cherry Preserves
Instructions
  1. For the filling, combine marscarpone cheese, dried cherries and onions. Set Aside.
  2. Place a chicken breast half between 2 pieces of plastic wrap. Using the flat side of a meat mallet, pound chicken lightly into a rectangle about ¼ inch thick. Remove plastic wrap. repeat with remaining chicken pieces. Spread filling evenly over chicken pieces to within ½ inch of edges. Fold in sides of each chicken piece, roll up from a short end. Secure with wooden toothpicks. For rub, combine brown sugar, salt and pepper. Sprinkle over chicken and rub in with your fingers.
  3. For a charcoal grill, arrange medium hot coals around a drip pan. Test for medium heat above the pan. Place chicken on grill rack over drip pan. Cover ; grill for 20 or 25 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink. ( 170 F ) Serve with Cherry -Orange Sauce.
  4. For a gas grill, preheat grill, reduce heat to medium. Adjust for indirect cooking. Grill as above. Serve with Cherry -Orange Sauce.
  5. CHERRY ORANGE SAUCE
  6. Cherry-Orange Sauce
  7. Finely shred enough peel from 1 large orange to zest 1 teaspoon. Set Aside.
  8. Peel and section the orange over a bowl to catch the juices. Add enough additional orange juice to equal ¼ cup.
  9. In a small saucepan combine ½ cup Cherry Preserves and the orange juice ; heat and stir until melted. Remove from heat. Coarsely chop the orange sections and add to preserves mixture along with the orange zest.