Super Simple Chicken Cordon Bleu With a Twist
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 4 slices white cheddar cheese
- 4 slices gouda cheese, with herbs (optional)
- 4 slices smoked turkey (thin slices)
- 1⁄4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 egg (beaten)
- 1 cup fine breadcrumbs
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- salt & pepper
- paprika
- garlic powder
- 1 small onion, chopped
directions
- Pound chicken breast to ¼-inch thickness. (We have our local butcher do them here, he butterflies and pounds the breast, so you have a super flat piece of chicken breast.).
- Fry chopped onion in a bit of oil until brown, set aside.
- Sprinkle each chicken breast on both sides with salt and pepper.
- Place 1 herbed gouda cheese slice, then 1 smoked turkey slice then 1 white cheddar slice and add a bit of the chopped fried onions on top of cheese in each breast.
- Roll up each breast using toothpicks to secure if necessary. (I didn’t need toothpicks, if you roll tight enough you should be fine.).
- Prepare three separate bowls…
- Bowl 1- Flour: Add some paprika, salt & pepper and a dash of garlic powder to this flour.
- Bowl 2- Egg: one egg beaten.
- Bowl 3- Bread crumbs: I used fine plain bread crumbs.
- Dredge each chicken breast in flour, shake off excess, then in egg and finally in bread crumbs. Its not that bad, I thought it would be, just do it gently in each bowl. You may need to use your fingers to coat a bit if the breast doesn’t pick up enough, it worked our fine when I did this.).
- Place seam side down in baking dish that has been sprayed with a non-stick cooking spray.
- Add 1 tablespoon butter on top of each piece of chicken.
- Bake at 350° turning each breast once to brown the other side. I think about 45 minutes or so was fine for me. As you can see form pick they came out a nice golden brown.
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Reviews
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Wowee this was good! First of all, I didn't realize that the recipe calls for herbed gouda, so I just got regular gouda. Still very tasty, but I can't wait to try it again with the herbed gouda. I skipped the onions for personal taste. Also, I had a bit of trouble rolling the chicken and did need toothpicks. I buy my chicken breasts in bags frozen from Sam's. So I thawed them, then beat them with a rolling pin (couldn't find my mallet), but I still had trouble. Nonetheless, this was so amazingly good and really easy! Thanks!
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