Chicken and Broccoli Strudel

• Meat

  • 2 3 lb. chickens
  • 4 cups Chicken stock - from cooked chicken above

• Produce

  • 1 lb Broccoli

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 Filo dough
  • 5 tbsp Flour
  • 1 Salt and pepper

• Dairy

  • 1/2 cup Butter
  • 8 oz Swiss cheese
  • 1/2 cup Whipping cream

• Liquids

  • 1/2 cup Water

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Description

Ingredients

• 2 3 lb. chickens
• 1 lb. broccoli
• 8 oz. swiss cheese
• salt and pepper to taste
• ½ cup butter - melted
• filo dough
• 5 tablespoons flour
• ½ cup water
• ½ cup whipping cream
• 4 cups chicken stock - from cooked chicken above

Directions

• Cover chickens in a large pan with water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and cook 1 hour. Let set in water 30 minutes, remove chicken from water and cool until you can debone the chicken. Refrigerate the chicken while you finish the chicken stock. Add the bones back to the chicken stock and boil for another water until you have about 4 cups of chicken stock left. Strain chicken broth.
• Cut broccoli into bite size pieces. Bring a pot of water to a boil. Add salt. Add the broccoli and cook for 1 minute once the water comes back to a boil. Put in a strainer and run cold water over the broccoli to stop the cooking. Add to the chicken after it is drained well.
• Strain the chicken stock into a clean pan. Bring to a boil. Mix the flour and water together until smooth. Stir it into the boiling chicken stock. Taste to adjust seasonings. Pour half of the gravy mix over the chicken. Add the whipping cream to the remaining gravy mixture. Bring to boil and let it reduce until it reaches a gravy consistency that will coat the back of a spoon. Refrigerate until ready to bake the strudels. Reheat at serving time.
• When the chicken and broccoli mixture is cool, add the swiss cheese. Stir to combine.
• Take the filo dough out of the package. Cover with a towel that is slightly damp if you are not used to working with filo dough. Take one sheet off and lay it in front of you the narrow end (short side) facing you. Brush lightly with butter. Lay another sheet on top, butter, repeat. You should have 3 layers of filo. Fold the end up about ⅓ that is closest to you. Take about a cup of the filling and place it on the fold. Fold in both sides over the filling. Brush the filo dough with butter. Starting at the end closest to you roll the pastry up until you reach the end. Place the rolled strudel on a greased baking sheet. Repeat process for remaining filling. Brush a layer of butter over the tops of the strudel.
• Bake at 400 degrees for about 20 minutes, the strudel should be golden brown like the ones above and the filling starting to ooze just a bit from the sides of some of them.
• Heat the gravy and whipping cream mixture and serve on the side.
• See the notes above about working with filo.