Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Stuffed Chicken

Last night I was watching Chopped on the Food Network and it made me want to create something without going to the store- soo I decided on stuffed chicken. I've never made stuffed chicken (other than buying them already stuffed and baking them).

All I had was frozen chicken breasts, probably not the best kind to use- but it worked.

INGREDIENTS:
2 chicken breasts
1 cup ricotta cheese
2 tbsp hummus (I used regular)
1/4 large white onion finely chopped
1/2 cup chopped spinach
1 tsp oregano
1/4 tsp dill (the dried seasoning)
1 tbsp minced garlic
1/4 cup finely chopped mushroom
1/2 cup finely chopped steamed broccoli
1/2 Roma tomato chopped
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper

DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350
Cut chicken breasts almost in half (leave them together at the ends- like a sub sandwich)
Place chicken on a cutting board and put wax/parchment paper on top of chicken and pound them so they're thinner
Lightly salt/pepper each side of chicken
Mix stuffing ingredients
Spoon ingredients onto bottom half of chicken (I can't give you a measurement because all pieces are diff sizes) fill about 3/4 of bottom part
Fold top over, use toothpicks to "seal"
Bake at 350 for about 30 minutes, then I flipped them over and broiled them for about 7-10 minutes (keep an eye on them so they don't burn).
Remove toothpicks and enjoy!

We had these with some sautéed veggies!

This also made MORE than enough for 2 chicken breasts- so last night, I used it as a filling in some croissant rolls with some chicken added. YUM.

It could've had more flavor and I'm trying to figure out what would be good to use without adding more salt... If you think of anything- let me know!









1 comment:

Tanvi said...

That looks really yummy!! I'm planning on making it sometime this week:)