Recipe: Tasty Chicken Cordon blue

Chicken Cordon blue. Sprinkle each piece of chicken on both sides with salt and pepper. Roll up each breast, and secure with a toothpick. Place in baking dish, and sprinkle chicken evenly with bread crumbs.

Classic Chicken Cordon Bleu is breaded and then fried. We opted to skip the frying and bake ours instead. It takes what is otherwise a tedious recipe and simplifies it a bit. You can have Chicken Cordon blue using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chicken Cordon blue

1. It's 6 pcs of chicken breast.
2. It's slices of ham.
3. Prepare 100 g of sticks of mozzarella cheese.
4. You need 2 pcs of whole eggs.
5. You need 100 g of flour.
6. Prepare 200 g of bread crumbs.
7. Prepare of oil for frying.
8. It's of salt and pepper to taste.

Add the French classic chicken cordon bleu to your dinner rotation with recipes from the expert chefs at Food Network. Remove the top sheet of. 'Cordon Bleu' is a French term, literally translated as 'blue ribbon', that originally referred to an award for culinary excellence given to women cooks! The term can now apply to any superior cook (yes, men too), and also to this dish (chicken, ham and Swiss cheese slices, breaded and sauteed). This chicken cordon bleu is a great, fast dinner for two.

Chicken Cordon blue instructions

1. Pound the chicken using a meat hammer and lay then on a plastic film, season it with salt and pepper. place the ham in the middle and cheese on top of the ham.
2. Follow the pictures as shown, after rolling place the chicken roll in the freezer about 30 mins. to set the chicken intact and firm when breading.
3. Prepare the breading station, and start breading it, it is advisable that you have to chill the breaded chicken first to the freezer about 20 minutes, before frying it in the hot oil..
4. Set your cooking oil hot and fry the chicken into the golden brown color. After frying place the chicken into the oven to finish cooking it, set your oven to 176F temperature and cook the chicken for 35 mins. After cooking, rest the chicken rolled for a while then cut it the way you like it, serves with any chicken gravy, or any mayonnaise base sauces. ENJOY.

It's easy to fix and makes an elegant entree. — Betty Palmesino, Phoenix, Arizona Homemade Chicken Cordon Bleu Recipe photo by Taste of Home Wrap the chicken in the plastic wrap tightly and use the excess plastic on the sides to twist, firming up the roll of chicken cordon bleu as you work. Switzerland is considered a probable contender for the geographical homeland of Chicken Cordon Bleu. Classic Chicken Cordon Bleu baked in the oven and topped with a delicious sauce with a trick for wrapping them perfectly, without toothpicks!. I love to serve chicken cordon bleu with these easy French Green Beans, or Mashed Potatoes and Roasted Vegetables! The classic way to make Chicken Cordon Bleu involves breast pounded until thin, layered with ham and cheese, rolled into a log, chilled, dredged in flour then egg then breadcrumbs then deep fried (and you need a lot of oil to deep fry them).