Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, italian stuffed chicken breast. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Italian stuffed chicken breast is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Italian stuffed chicken breast is something that I have loved my whole life.
Italian-inspired stuffed chicken breasts are loaded with plenty of cheese and seasonings and baked with spaghetti sauce for a crowd-pleasing meal. Fold chicken over the filling and secure with a toothpick. These stuffed chicken breasts Italian style makes a quick fresh and flavorful weeknight meal but is special enough for company.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have italian stuffed chicken breast using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Italian stuffed chicken breast:
- Prepare shredded Italian cheese
- Make ready garlic, minced
- Get dried basil
- Take dried oregano
- Get Italian style bread crumbs
- Prepare boneless skinless chicken breasts
- Make ready egg, beaten
- Prepare marinara sauce
- Get About 10 stalks kale
- Take small onion, chopped
- Take Olive oil
- Make ready Salt & pepper
I love the way that the peppers and onions give the sausage filling a mild sweetness. A thick chicken breast gets coated in italian seasoning and stuffed to the brim with mozzarella cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, and spinach. It takes no time at all before it is in the oven and on the dinner table for the family to devour. The chicken gets pan seared before it enters the oven.
Steps to make Italian stuffed chicken breast:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Remove kale from stems and chop into small pieces. Cook kale & onion in the olive oil until tender, adding salt and pepper to taste. Let cool.
- Mix 3/4 cup of Italian cheese, basil, oregano and kale in a small bowl. Add bread crumbs to a plate. Add egg to another plate and stir in a tiny bit of water.
- Cut one side of chicken breast horizontally to within one half inch of other side. Spread the two sides open like a book. Cover chicken with plastic wrap and pound to flatten. Fill each chicken breast with kale/cheese mixture and close like a book over filling. Coat the outside of each chicken breast with egg. Press both sides of each chicken breast into bread crumbs so outside is completely coated. Arrange chicken breasts in a 9x13 baking dish.
- Bake in preheated oven until chicken is no longer pink in center and juices run clear, about 45 mins.
- Remove chicken from oven and pour marinara sauce over cooked chicken. Top with remaining 1/4 cup of cheese. Bake until sauce is bubbling and cheese is melted, about 5 more minutes.
- All done! Serve with pasta and garlic bread.
These are great with sweet cornbread and your favorite style of rice! It's always a hit at the dinner table to have a perfectly cooked chicken breasts stuffed with all sorts of tasty goodness. In this particular version of stuffed chicken, I decided to utilize fennel, a super healthy and underutilized vegetable. Slice the chicken breasts lengthways without cutting completely in half. Divide the mozzarella, tomatoes and basil between each breast, stuffing into the opening; gently close and secure with cocktail sticks or wrap with bacon/proscuitto to secure the filling in place.
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