Chicken cordon bleu. A delicious French classic, chicken cordon bleu is made of chicken breasts stuffed with ham and Swiss cheese. Chicken stuffed with ham and cheese, coated with crunchy golden breadcrumbs. You'd swear it's fried - but it's baked.

The quality of the ingredients you will use for this recipe will either make it a great stuffed chicken breast. Classic Chicken Cordon Bleu is breaded and then fried. We opted to skip the frying and bake ours instead. You can have Chicken cordon bleu using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chicken cordon bleu

It's 1/4 lb of Chicken.
You need 1 of Ham.
Prepare 1 of Cheese (any kind).
It's 1 of White wine.
You need 1 of Garlic.

It takes what is otherwise a tedious recipe and simplifies it a bit. Chicken cordon bleu is one of those meal-in-one dishes, which appeals to my family's tastes in different ways. It has the crispy exterior from the breadcrumb mixture that the kids enjoy. 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.

Chicken cordon bleu instructions

Pound chicken to flatten out so it will be easy to roll..
Put a 1/4 of onion into saute pan and add a clove of garlic and saute till tender but not brown.
Put chicken on cutting board and ham and cheese on top of the chicken and roll it all together and puncture with 3 tooth picks to hold the chicken into the roll.
Put chicken into the saute pan over medium heat uncovered and brown the breasts. Once brown add a quarter cup of wine and let the wine reduce by half..
Once wine is reduced cover the pan and leave alone until the chicken is at an internal temperature of 165. Take chicken out put on plate. Slowly take out tooth picks and then sauce the plate with the wine reduction that was made earlier.

How to make Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole. This is an extremely simple dish that is practically impossible to mess up. If you are a beginner in the kitchen, this is the perfect dish to make to fool your. Baked chicken cordon bleu is a classic dish that is so well-loved for a reason. Ham and Swiss cheese are wrapped up in a chicken cutlet, coated in breadcrumbs and baked to perfection.