How to Make Easy Chicken Cordon Bleu Recipe
If you find yourself in a meal-time rut, chicken cordon bleu is a filling dish to serve at dinner time. Using boneless chicken, ham and Swiss cheese, this recipe is filled with many nutrients and involves two of the four food groups. Add a fresh-steamed vegetable to complete this meal. In French, "cordon" stands for ribbon, and "bleu" simply enough means "blue," making this dish a blue ribbon meal for any night of the week. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- 4 pieces boneless skinless chicken
- 8 slices Swiss cheese
- 8 slices ham or bacon
- 1 egg
- 3 tbsp. flour
- 1 bag crumb-style coating
- Bread crumbs
- Oregano
- Salt
- Pepper
- Olive oil
- 8 toothpicks
Instructions
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Preheat your oven to 400 F.
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Shake your chicken in any flavor of crumb-style coating or bread crumbs. Coat each piece thoroughly. Add salt, pepper and oregano to taste. For extra flavor, dip your chicken in a coating of egg and flour mixture before shaking in the crumb mixture.
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Coat the bottom of a shallow glass pan lightly with olive oil and place the chicken in the pan. Bake for 15 minutes.
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Take chicken out of oven and allow to cool for about 15 minutes. Cut each piece in half to create two slices for a top and bottom.
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Top with a slice of Swiss cheese and a slice of ham or bacon and place the other half on top like a sandwich. You may also roll up the ingredients to resemble a jelly roll. Start at one end and tightly roll, keeping the contents inside. Hold with a toothpick. Put back in oven for 5 minutes or until thoroughly cooked.
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