Homemade Chicken Cordon Bleu

Chicken Cordon Bleu - One of my homemade recipes. It was the first time making one, it turned out to be pretty good. My recipe may not be the authentic one but it sure is a good one. Enjoy! :)

Ingredients: 

• Chicken breasts (Skinless & Boneless) = 4 pcs
• Hickory smoked ham = 8 slices
• Swiss cheese = 8 slices 
• All purpose flour = 1 cup
• Breadcrumbs = 1 cup
• Eggs = 3 pcs
• Paprika = 2 tbsp
• Dried Rosemary = 1 tsp
• Salt = 1 tsp
• Pepper = 1 tsp
• Olive oil = 1/2 cup
• Toothpicks

Process: 

• Have our chicken breasts cleaned and ready, them plastic wrap around it flatly and pound it til flatten. Season the chicken breasts with salt, pepper, paprika, rosemary, a little bit of olive oil, set it aside and let it rest for 10 - 15 minutes.
• Line up the Hickory smoked hams, Swiss cheese and toothpicks in front of you. There will be some rolling. 
• With your chicken breast, place two of smoked hams and two of Swiss cheese onto the chicken breast equally. Roll it forward and tug in both side as you go. To prevent the access juice when the cheese melts. Insert toothpicks to secure the chickens and its stuffing in. Use as many as you like but make sure you remember to take it all out when it is done cooking. 
• Roll the rest of chicken breasts and the fillings together. Let it sit for 5 to 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, put your coating ingredients in the bowls. All purpose flour, beaten eggs, and breadcrumbs. Dip the prepared chicken onto the flour (Add, a pinch of salt and pepper pulls out some flavor, tap out some access flour as needed), then put onto beaten eggs (let it coats all sides), then to the breadcrumbs - make sure you cover enough. Breadcrumbs give some crunchy texture to the coating. Plastic wrapped and let your prepared chicken sit for 15 minutes in the fridge so everything is all set. 
• With a sauce pan, add the olive oil and let the temperature reaches medium heat, toss your chicken in the pan and let it look completely. In this process if you'd like to reduce fat, you can oven baked the chicken, it will be as crunchy as pan frying. All you have to do is, spray some olive oil on your pan, line - up your chicken and spray some olive oil onto the chicken and bake at the temperature of 150 degree Celsius and let it bake for about 15 - 20 minutes until you get a golden brown chicken and crispy on the outside. 
• Serve while hot, slice the chicken about 2 inches. I had my Chicken Cordon Bleu with some ketchup or Siracha sauce. Some people prefer the creamy sauce on top but for my opinion, I think the chicken itself is already creamy and cheesy. 
• Enjoy! :) 
  
  
  

  Enjoy, 

  Anita A.