Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breasts

Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breasts

  • Prep Time: 15 mins
  • Total Time: 35 mins
  • Servings: 4

    • Ingredients

  • 4largeboneless skinless chicken breasts
  • 1tablespoonbutter
  • 1tablespoonolive oil( for browning chicken)
  • 1tablespoonoil( to saute onion & garlic)

    • Stuffing

  • 1smallonion, finely chopped
  • 1clovegarlic, minced
  • 1/3 cupolive
  • 1/3 cupoil-packed sun-dried tomato, chopped(optional)
  • 2tablespoonschopped fresh parsley
  • 1 -2tablespoonfinely chopped fresh basil
  • 1 1/2 cupsshredded marble cheese
  • 1pinchcayenne pepper

    • Sauce

  • 1/2 cupchicken broth
  • 1/2 cup white wine or 1cupbroth
  • 2tablespoonschopped fresh parsley
  • 1finely chopped green onion
  • pepper

    • Directions

  • In a large non-stick frying pan over med.
  • heat, sauté onion and garlic in 1 tbsp.
  • of oil until soft (about 3-4 min.) Cool.
  • Add onion and garlic mixture to remaining stuffing ingredients and mix together in a medium sized bowl.
  • With a rolling pin or meat pounder, flatten chicken breasts.
  • Divide stuffing equally in the centre of each breast.
  • Tightly roll chicken around the stuffing, tucking in the ends.
  • Seal with toothpicks.
  • In the same frying pan, add 1 tbsp.
  • each of olive oil and butter.
  • Over med-high heat, brown the stuffed chicken breasts, turning several times, for 5 min.
  • Reduce heat to med-low; cover pan and simmer for 10 min.
  • turning occasionally.
  • Remove chicken from pan and keep warm.
  • Increase heat to high, add sauce ingredients and boil until liquid is reduced by half.
  • Slice each breast into 4 pieces, drizzle sauce over chicken, and serve.

    • Reviews

  • “Excellent and easy.My family loved this recipe.We did not use the olives and used cheddar cheese and the chicken was perfect..thanks”

  • “This was very good, I doubled the recipe, but in half used cilantro instead of basil and cheese with jalapeno and peppers. it is good too. Now I have two recipes in one:) Thanks”

  • “This dish is wonderfull.I used a mixture of cheddar cheese and jack cheese.I left out the olives (not a big hit in my house)and sundried tomatoes(just counldn’t find them.This was a change from the same old chicken i was used to having. thank you!”

  • “I love this meal and it is so easy to make! “

  • “Loved this chicken.This is a keeper.Can’t wait to serve it to friends/family.”

  • “Delicious!I was out of olives, but did use the sundried tomatoes. Having no fresh parsley or basil on hand, I used fresh sage and thyme. Substituted black pepper for the cayenne.Thanks for another great recipe, Dancer^.I will definitely make this again! The only difficult part is rolling up the chicken, which is never my favorite task. I was amazed that all the stuffing actually remained inside the chicken; a rare occurance in my world! Yum (:”

  • “EXCELLENT!Very easy, tasty chicken recipe! We served with rice & whole family , including children enjoyed ;)”

  • “I enjoyed this recipe so much, I’m making it as a special dinner for Mother’s Day.I omitted the sundried tomatoes and olives and found it made a very expensive tasting dish.”

    •