Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chicken cordon bleu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
A delicious French classic, chicken cordon bleu is made of chicken breasts stuffed with ham and Swiss cheese. Chicken cordon bleu: the perfect idea for dinner! Chicken stuffed with ham and cheese, coated with crunchy golden breadcrumbs.
Chicken Cordon Bleu is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Chicken Cordon Bleu is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have chicken cordon bleu using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Cordon Bleu:
- Prepare 4 boneless chicken breasts
- Prepare 2 thick slices deli ham; diced
- Make ready 1/2 cup shredded swiss cheese
- Prepare 1/4 cup grated parmesan
- Take 1 1/2 cup bread crumbs
- Prepare 2 tbsp ground parsley
- Make ready 2 tbsp onion powder
- Take 1 tbsp garlic powder
- Get 1 tbsp paprika
- Get 1 tsp ground thyme
- Make ready 3 tbsp melted butter
- Make ready 2 eggs
- Take 1 cup flour
- Take 1 large pinches of salt and pepper
It takes what is otherwise a tedious recipe and simplifies it a bit. Chicken Cordon Bleu is usually stuffed with ham and Swiss cheese, but you can use any cheese your family likes such as mozzarella or Gruyere. Chicken cordon bleu is one of those meal-in-one dishes, which appeals to my family's tastes in different ways. It has the crispy exterior from the breadcrumb mixture that the kids enjoy.
Steps to make Chicken Cordon Bleu:
- Trim fat off chicken. Slice down the side of the breast to butterfly the breast or make a small incision at the top corner of the breast to make a pocket for stuffing with your fingers.
- Combine ham and half of the cheese in a mixing bowl. Stuff each breast.
- Set up a standard 3 step breading station in three different mixing bowls. Flour- Egg Wash- Bread Crumbs….in that order!
- Season the bread crumbs with the dry spices and remaining cheese. Add melted butter. Mix. Add more butter if necessary, or omit and blanch breaded chicken in oil for 20 seconds.
- Carefully bread the breasts so you dont lose all the stuffing.
- Cook at 350° for approximately 25-30 minutes or until thermometer reaches 165° and breading is golden and crispy.
- Variations; Herbs de Province, rosemary, mustard, gruyere
Arrange chicken smooth side down on a work surface. Cover one half of each breast with one slice of ham and one slice of cheese, leaving. Baked chicken cordon bleu is a classic dish that is so well-loved for a reason. Ham and Swiss cheese are wrapped up in a chicken cutlet, coated in breadcrumbs and baked to perfection. Our family's favorite fool-proof Chicken Cordon Bleu recipe includes a cornflake coating and easy two-ingredient sauce.
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