Recipe: Perfect Chicken cordon bleu

Chicken cordon bleu. A delicious French classic, chicken cordon bleu is made of chicken breasts stuffed with ham and Swiss cheese. Classic Chicken Cordon Bleu is breaded and then fried. We opted to skip the frying and bake ours instead.

You'd swear it's fried - but it's baked. Chicken Cordon Bleu is usually stuffed with ham and Swiss cheese, but you can use any cheese your family likes such as mozzarella or Gruyere. Tender chicken breasts are stuffed with smoky ham and swiss cheese. You can have Chicken cordon bleu using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chicken cordon bleu

1. Prepare 6 of full deboned, defrosted, chicken breast.
2. It's 100 g of bread crumbs/chicken coating.
3. It's 200 g of sliced cheese /cheddar /mozzarella.
4. You need 6 slices of sandwich ham.
5. Prepare 2 teaspoon of chicken seasoning and paprika.
6. You need of Oil for frying.
7. You need of Salt and pepper for seasoning.
8. You need 2 of eggs beaten.
9. You need 1 cup of flour.

These easy rolls are breaded and baked until golden and juicy. A simple dijon cream sauce is the perfect compliment. A cordon bleu or schnitzel cordon bleu is a dish of meat wrapped around cheese (or with cheese filling), then breaded and pan-fried or deep-fried. Veal or pork cordon bleu is made of veal or pork pounded thin and wrapped around a slice of ham and a slice of cheese, breaded.

Chicken cordon bleu step by step

1. Slice the chicken breasts down the side and tenderise/flatten with a kitchen mallet.
2. Season with salt pepper paprika, and any other seasoning you like. Place cheese on the breast.
3. Then layer with ham.
4. In cling wrap, roll up the chicken inside the cling wrap and leave in the fridge to cool and set.
5. Warm up the oil on the stove. While it's warming prepare the flour, egg and coating in 3 separate dishes. Coat first in flour, then egg then the breadcrumbs.
6. Fry in the oil and flip over every couple of minutes to ensure even cooking and leave to rest on a kitchen towel.
7. Cut even portions and serve.

Chicken Cordon Bleu was one of the first meals I attempted as a newly married woman. I had never heard of pounding chicken to make it thinner and spent a lot of time in the kitchen violently trying to. Fortunately, chicken cordon bleu is pretty simple to put together yourself using scratch ingredients. Chicken cordon bleu is typically deep-fried or pan fried, but here we simply bake it in the oven. Easy Chicken Cordon Bleu with the BEST Chicken Cordon Bleu Sauce EVER is my favorite recipe for entertaining a crowd.

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