Break Your Daily Routine With This Innovative Chicken And Cheese Recipe

There are ways to enhance the taste of poultry. This time we present an unusual combination: chicken stuffed with cream cheese with garlic and spring onions. Spring and light. 

In addition, this dish is easy to prepare and combines products that we usually love. Undoubtedly, it is an interesting proposition for all those who are bored with the traditional fried chicken breast. An additional advantage of this dish – it does not require a large financial outlay.

We won’t cheat you: yes, stuffed chicken has more calories than grilled chicken. But if we take care of the right proportions, we will not overeat and continue our healthy lifestyle: even such a caloric dish will not hurt us.

Chicken stuffed with cheese, with garlic and spring onion – recipe

The specificity of the chicken

Poultry, including chicken, have a special advantage – they are easy to combine with other ingredients. It’s not uncommon for poultry recipes to contain fruits, vegetables, and quirky side dishes in a thousand different ways. Importantly, we can allow ourselves to experiment without risking a total disaster.

Thanks to this, stuffed chicken can be crispy, with a penetrating aroma and juicy inside, because it is prepared in the oven.

To achieve such a tempting, appetizing effect: we will also need butter. Because this will allow us to obtain a caramelized look, aesthetic and tasty effect.

Stuffed chicken – step by step

Ingredients

• 1 container of cream (250 g)
• 2 tablespoons of chopped spring onions (30 g)
• 1 tablespoon of garlic powder (15 g)
• 4 boneless chicken breasts (approx. 900 g)
• 10 slices of bacon (about 300 g)
• 1 ½ tablespoon of butter (30 g)
• 4 toothpicks

Preparation

• First, wash and dry the chicken thoroughly.

• Remove any skins and leave only the white part of the meat on the wooden board.
• Then, in a medium bowl, combine the ingredients: 6 tbsp cream cheese, 1 tbsp chopped onion and garlic.
• Use a wooden spoon, mix and make sure the mass is homogeneous.
• Divide the cheese mixture into 4 parts, one for each serving of chicken.
• First of all, put an extra portion of cream cheese and a portion of the cheese mass in the center of each breast.
• Now you need to wrap the bacon strips of the stuffed breasts and close the meat with a toothpick.
• Finally, put them in a preheated to 175 ° C oven for about 30 minutes. If you notice that the bacon is already crunchy and the breasts are baked, reduce the baking time.

That’s all! Juicy, healthy and tender chicken breasts stuffed with cheese – they’re ready!

At the very end, you can sprinkle the dish with finely chopped chives.