Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Try-It-Tuesday

I got this one from a Kraft magazine. They suggest topping the cooked chicken with spaghetti sauce which would be fine. But honestly I like these better plain, served with a salad and piece of garlic bread.


Chicken Parmesan Bundles

8 oz. cream cheese softened
1 pkg. frozen chopped spinach thawed and drained (I only use half.)
2 c. mozzarella cheese shredded
10 Tbsp. Grated parmesan cheese
4 large chicken breasts, cut in half to make 8 small
20 Ritz crackers crushed
2 eggs beaten

Mix cream cheese, spinach, mozarella, and 6 Tbs. of the parmesan cheese. Set aside.
Crush Ritz crackers, add remaining parmesan cheese.
Flatten chicken to 1/4-1/2 thickness.
Spread layer of cheese on chicken, roll chicken up, secure with a toothpick, dip chicken into egg, then crackers. Place seam side down in a greased 9x13. Bake 45 min.- 1 hour at 375 degrees.

Here's the step by step:
Mix together your cheeses and spinach. Crush your crackers and add cheese to the mix.

Pound your chicken breasts flat. I like to place a piece of plastic wrap on top (keeps the chicken juice where it should be) and then whack them with the rolling pin. I also like to add a little salt to the chicken at this stage.


Put a gob of the cheese on top of the chicken, then roll it right up. Secure it with a toothpick.

Roll the chicken in egg and then the crackers mix.

I forgot to take a picture of them before I baked them, but you place them seam side down, in a greased 9 x 13 and bake 45 min-1 hour until chicken is done. (And yes, the cheesy stuff oozes out a little bit, but you can just scoop it right up and plop it on top.)

8 comments:

Deanna said...

That looks so good, I could lick my computer screen!!! :) That one is definitly going in my recipe box! :)

Deanna said...

and yes, you can have a mommy moment on my blog, b/c your kids are SO adorable!!! I miss seeing them in Primary! I thought it was so sweet of Halle and Alysa to help each other out on Sunday in Sacrament Meeting! :)

Lee Ann said...

That looks like some awesome rainy day comfort food! And yes, it's yet another rainy day here.

But, for tonight, we're going to attempt gluten free pizza....and it's going to be delicious!....we hope:-)

Mama Williams said...

This looks better than the Taco Bell you were talking about. hee hee!

Miki said...

Yep...copying and going to do this one. Awesome!

"The Queen in Residence" said...

Do you deliver? That looks so good. I need some new things in my book, yummy.

Is it snowing and cold and miserable up there too? Where did spring go?♥

LouandAngela said...

WOW! That looks delicious!

LouandAngela said...

Thanks! It was great--although I should have followed your advice EXACTLY. I forgot to salt the chicken (remedied later on, but would have been better if I had salted before) and I should have left out half of the spinach like you suggested. But, it was good and everybody (except for my picky eater who wouldn't even try it) liked it! THANKS!!