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A delicious French classic, chicken cordon bleu is made of chicken breasts stuffed with ham and Swiss cheese. Chicken stuffed with ham and cheese, coated with crunchy golden breadcrumbs. You'd swear it's fried - but it's baked.
Chicken Cordon Bleu is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Chicken Cordon Bleu is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must 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
- Get 1/2 cup shredded swiss cheese
- Prepare 1/4 cup grated parmesan
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup bread crumbs
- Make ready 2 tbsp ground parsley
- Prepare 2 tbsp onion powder
- Get 1 tbsp garlic powder
- Make ready 1 tbsp paprika
- Take 1 tsp ground thyme
- Get 3 tbsp melted butter
- Prepare 2 eggs
- Make ready 1 cup flour
- Make ready 1 large pinches of salt and pepper
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 typically deep-fried or pan fried, but here we simply bake it in the oven. It's much healthier and also much less of a pain (who else hates setting up a deep fryer?!) Chicken Cordon Bleu was one of the first meals I attempted as a newly married woman. I had never heard of pounding chicken to make it thinner and spent a lot of time in the kitchen violently trying to.
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. How to make Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole. This is an extremely simple dish that is practically impossible to mess up. If you are a beginner in the kitchen, this is the perfect dish to make to fool your.
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