Or maybe my family is just really easy to please. [probably]
So I made a bunch of these – 15 to be exact – and they were ALL gobbled up that night. We didn’t put a single one away for leftovers. It was my first time making them this way (I’ve done another version which I’ll share at a later time), but I am very pleased with how they turned out. We just had them and I already thinking about making them again! So here’s how I made them (I doubled this recipe):
Chicken Cordon Bleu
4 chicken breasts (about 6-8 oz each), sliced in half so each piece is about 4 oz
2 eggs, beaten with a bit of milk added
Seasoned breadcrumbs of your choice (I used my leftover Parmesan cereal coating)
8 slices of Swiss cheese, cut into quarters
16 slices of thinly sliced deli ham
Other items I used: plastic wrap, toothpicks, flat edge of a kitchen meat mallet such as this one, large baking sheet, cooking spray
Directions:
- Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Take a large piece of plastic wrap and lay it on your counter. Place one of the pieces of chicken on one half side of the plastic wrap. Fold the excess plastic wrap on top of the chicken and with the flat side of the mallet, pound the chicken evenly to make it fairly thin (about 1/2″ thick).
- Peel back the plastic wrap you’ve been pounding on top of to expose the chicken breast. Place two slices of ham (or use more or less as you prefer) on top of the chicken. Then place 4 stacked cheese quarters (the equivalent of one slice) on top of the ham. You can use less cheese and I actually did – I doubled this recipe and only had 12 slices, so I put just 2-3 cheese quarters on each one.
- Bundle up the ham around the cheese. I did it kind of like how you would fold a burrito. Or a baby’s diaper. Probably not the best visual, but you get the idea. My goal here was to get the ham to cover as much of the cheese as possible so I could hopefully avoid a bunch of it melting out.
- Now, start covering up this bundle of ham and cheese with the chicken. I pretty much folded the chicken around this bundle the same way I did with the ham around the cheese. Using your toothpicks, secure it here and there, so you are covering all of the ham/cheese (or doing the best job possible of covering the ham/cheese). I used a lot of toothpicks on some of these.
- Repeat the above steps with all your chicken.
- Now you are ready to coat your chicken bundles. Place your breadcrumbs in one container and your egg in another one.
- Dip a chicken bundles in the egg, allow the excess to drip off. Then place into the breadcrumbs. Roll and coat the chicken with the breadcrumbs and then place on the baking sheet.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for about 30 minutes, or until completely done.
- Allow to cool a bit and carefully remove the toothpicks. They are ready to serve! If your family like dipping things like this, honey mustard goes along well with it.
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