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Chicken and Bacon Ballotine with sausage and cranberry stuffing and Sage and onion stuffing

1. Cut open a cheeslets/twiglets tube or a 2l juice bottle lengthways to make a mould and line with clingfilm. Then line with streaky bacon, making sure you have some overhang along the edges from each strip (if your tube is wider than the bacon, create a weave pattern using two strips). 

2. Cut open each chicken breast and fill with sausage stuffing.  Place the breasts into the mould using 2^nd stuffing to fill gaps, once full pull around the overhangs of bacon to complete the joint.  I used bamboo kebab skewers to secure, but if you want to use string, you could lay it along the clingfilm before you put the bacon in.

3. The finished joint  - Weigh it and cook with chicken roasting timings.

The results!