These are some of our favorite recipes, mostly from Cooking Light, but we tend to edit portions and ingredients
that suit our taste buds (e.g. when a recipe calls for 1 minced garlic clove, we use about 4 :) ).
Other recipes are passed down from family and friends.
Enjoy!

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Spinach and Blue Cheese Chicken

The January/February Cooking Light was full of good chicken recipes, including a whole section on stuffing chicken breasts with different delicious combinations. This is the first one we tried ~ spinach and blue cheese, how could it NOT be good?!

http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=50400000109616


Yield: 4 servings
 
Ingredients:

2 teaspoons oil
3 cups baby spinach
1 garlic clove, minced
1/4 cup blue cheese
1 tablespoon flour
1 ounce prosciutto, chopped
4 (6-ounce) skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Cooking spray

Preparation:
Preheat oven to 350°. Heat a large ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat. Add oil. Add spinach and minced garlic, and sauté for 2 minutes. Combine spinach, blue cheese, flour, and chopped prosciutto. Cut a 1-inch-wide slit into the thick end of chicken breast halves, and carefully cut down to center of chicken to form a pocket. Divide spinach mixture evenly among pockets. Secure with wooden picks. Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper. Heat pan over medium-high heat; coat pan with cooking spray. Add chicken; sauté 4 minutes. Turn chicken over. Bake at 350° for 12 minutes; let stand 5 minutes.

Nutritional Information:
Calories: 263
Fat: 9.4g (sat 3.3g,mono 0.0g,poly 0.0g)
Protein: 0.0g
Carbohydrate: 0.0g
Fiber: 0.0g
Cholesterol: 0.0mg
Iron: 0.0mg
Sodium: 566mg
Calcium: 0.0mg

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