Holiday Chicken Presents
By: Sheri Wetherell
Published: Sunday, December 13, 2009 - 1:18am

Ingredients




1 pound boneless and skinless chicken breast halves
3/4 teaspoon garlic salt
2 tablespoons butter 
2 shallots, chopped
1 tablespoon Marsala wine
2 cups fresh mushrooms, sliced
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
2 tablespoons milk
2 tablespoons sherry
1 teaspoon grated Parmesan cheese
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon freshly-ground black pepper
2 ounces packet frozen puff pastry - (17 ¼  ea) thawed
12 Swiss cheese slices - (1 oz ea)
12 country ham slices - (1 oz ea)
1 egg white lightly beaten
1/2 cup butter or margarine melted
1/4 cup Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon poppy seeds
1 teaspoon lemon juice

Preparation

1 Sprinkle chicken with garlic salt. Cook chicken in a lightly greased nonstick skillet over medium-high heat 7 to 8 minutes on each side or until lightly browned. Remove from skillet; chop chicken, and set aside. 
I grill mine. 2 Melt 2 tablespoons butter in nonstick skillet over medium heat; add shallots and onion, and saute 3 minutes. Add mushrooms, and saute 5 minutes. Reduce heat to low; add cream cheese and milk, stirring until blended.
I add Marsala here as well as a good squirt of dijon 3 Remove from heat; add chopped chicken. Stir in sherry and next 3 ingredients. 4 Unfold 3 pastry sheets on a lightly floured surface; cut into fourths. Roll into 10-inch squares. 5 Place 1 cheese slice and 1 ham slice on center of each puff pastry square; top with 1/4 cup chicken mixture. Bring corners together over filling, gently pressing to seal. 6 Cut remaining pastry sheet into thin strips; tie each bundle with pastry ribbon. Place on a baking sheet; brush with egg white. 7 Bake at 400 degrees for 35 minutes or until golden. Whisk together melted butter and next 3 ingredients. Serve over pastry bundles.

I didn't do the lemon juice in the butter but I did do it in the ingredients. When you remove the pastry, glaze with butter and mustard. 8 This recipe yields 12 servings.
You can make these really small as appetizers or larger for dinner size servings