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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. Learn how to cook chicken cordon bleu recipe.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chicken cordon bleu using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Cordon Bleu:
- Get 4 boneless chicken breasts
- Prepare 2 thick slices deli ham; diced
- Prepare 1/2 cup shredded swiss cheese
- Take 1/4 cup grated parmesan
- Take 1 1/2 cup bread crumbs
- Take 2 tbsp ground parsley
- Make ready 2 tbsp onion powder
- Take 1 tbsp garlic powder
- Get 1 tbsp paprika
- Get 1 tsp ground thyme
- Take 3 tbsp melted butter
- Make ready 2 eggs
- Prepare 1 cup flour
- Prepare 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. A cordon bleu or schnitzel cordon bleu is a dish of meat wrapped around cheese (or with cheese filling), then breaded and pan-fried or deep-fried. 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
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. Our family's favorite fool-proof Chicken Cordon Bleu recipe includes a cornflake coating and easy two-ingredient sauce. 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.
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