Fontina Cheese And Red Sweet Pepper Stuffed Chicken Breasts Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400.
• Make a pocket in the chicken breasts the lightly salt and pepper. Saute mushrooms, onion, and red pepper in olive oil for 5 minutes. Mix this into a bowl with ricotta cheese and garlic powder. Mix well. Spoon mixture into chicken breasts. Try to have some remaining stuffing to place on top 5 minutes before chicken is done. I usually set it to high broil for the last 5 minutes to get a nice brown color.

Steps:

• First you will need to rinse your chicken well, and then pat it dry.
• Take each breast half, and place it, boned side up.
• between two pieces of clear plastic wrap.
• Working from the center to the edges, pound lightly with a meat mallet (make sure that you are using the flat side) until 1/4-inch thick.
• Remove the plastic wrap after you are done pounding.
• Sprinkle the chicken with freshly ground black pepper (to taste), and then layer the fontina, pepper halves, and sage evenly in the center of each breast.
• Fold in the edges; roll up jelly-roll style, pressing the edges to seal, and then roll in flour.
• In an 8 inch skillet, heat the olive oil over medium heat.
• Cook the chicken about 5 minutes, turning to brown on all sides.
• Remove from skillet.
• In the same skillet, bring wine OR broth to a boil; reduce heat.
• Simmer uncovered for approximately 2 minutes or until 1/4 cup of liquid remains.
• Return chicken to the skillet, and cover and simmer for 10-12 minutes until chicken is no longer pink in the center.
• To Serve, spoon juices over the chicken.
• You can also slice the chicken into rounds for a beautiful presentation.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Make deep 1-inch-long cut with knife parallel to cutting board inside of each chicken breast half to form pocket. Combine cheese, bacon and basil in small bowl. Evenly stuff pockets with cheese mixture, then press edges together to seal. Brush chicken with olive oil, then dip in bread crumbs, turning to coat. Arrange chicken on baking sheets. Bake 20 minutes or until chicken is thoroughly cooked.
• Meanwhile, cook spinach, water and garlic in 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until spinach is wilted. Stir in Sauce and heat through. To serve, arrange hot fettuccine on serving platter, then top with sauce mixture and chicken. Garnish, if desired, with additional chopped basil.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°F. Combine cheeses, prosciutto, and basil in small bowl. Season stuffing with freshly ground black pepper.
• Run fingers under skin of chicken breasts to loosen. Spread stuffing under skin. Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper.
• Melt 1 tablespoon butter in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken, skin side down, and cook until brown, about 3 minutes per side. Reduce heat to medium, cover, and cook until chicken is cooked through, turning once, about 10 minutes. Transfer to rimmed baking sheet; place in oven to keep warm. Add broth and marsala to skillet; bring to boil and cook until sauce is reduced to scant 1/2 cup, scraping up browned bits, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from heat; whisk in 1 tablespoon butter. Season sauce to taste with salt and pepper. Place chicken on plates. Add any juices from baking sheet to sauce. Spoon sauce over chicken and serve.

Steps:

• Cut a pocket horizontally into each breast half. Place chicken in a large glass baking dish.
• In a small bowl, combine mustard, mayonnaise, oil, vinegar, parsley, oregano, and basil; mix well.
• Pour mustard mixture over chicken; cover and refrigerate for 30 min (up to 3 hrs.).
• Heat oven to 375ºF.
• Line a large baking pan with foil and sray with nonstick cooking spray.
• In a medium bowl, combine mozzarella cheese, spinach, bell pepper and garlic; mix well.
• Stuff 1/6 of mixture into each chicken breast pocket.
• Sprinkle with salt, pepper, and rosemary.
• Bake for 20 minute.
• Sprinkle chicken with Parmesan cheese and bake and additional 5-10 min or until juices run clear.

Steps:

• For sauce: combine wine, cream, lemon juice, vinegar, chopped shallot and pepper in medium saucepan.
• Boil until reduced to ¼ cup, about 8 minutes (can be prepared 1 day ahead).
• For chicken: Pound each chicken breast between sheets of wax paper to 7 x 4 inch rectangle.
• Place smooth side down on work surface.
• Rub ½ tsp olive oil and ½ tsp minced garlic over each chicken breast.
• Sprinkle each with 1/3 cup of Fontina cheese.
• Top each with 3 spinach leaves, overlapping if necessary.
• Starting at short end, tightly roll up chicken, jelly-roll style.
• Tie with string in several places (can be prepared 8 hours ahead).
• Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
• Heat remaining 2 tblsps oil in heavy, large ovenproof skillet.
• Season chicken with salt and pepper.
• Brown well on all sides, about 10 minutes.
• Transfer skillet to oven and bake until chicken is cooked through, about 15 minutes.
• Transfer to plate and cool 5 minutes.
• Bring sauce to simmer.
• Add butter, one piece at a time, whisking just until butter melts and sauce is smooth.
• Spoon sauce onto plates.
• Cut string off chicken.
• Cut chicken crosswise into ½ inch thick slices and fan out on plates, overlapping.
• Serve, passing remaining sauce separately.