How to make Chicken cordon bleu at home

Chicken cordon bleu - Easy to do and Very moist even after warming up leftovers the next day!. Today I am sharing this Chicken cordon bleu! A quick and easy dinner that is ready in under 45 minutes! A delicious French classic, chicken cordon bleu is made of chicken breasts stuffed with ham and Swiss cheese. 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. Chicken stuffed with ham and cheese, coated with crunchy golden breadcrumbs.

Chicken cordon bleu You'd swear it's fried - but it's baked. Tender chicken breasts are stuffed with smoky ham and swiss cheese. These easy rolls are breaded and baked until golden and juicy.

You can cook Chicken cordon bleu with 9 Ingredients and 7 steps. See the following guide!

Ingredients for Chicken cordon bleu:

  1. 6 full deboned, defrosted, chicken breast.
  2. 100 g bread crumbs/chicken coating.
  3. 200 g sliced cheese /cheddar /mozzarella.
  4. 6 slices sandwich ham.
  5. 2 teaspoon chicken seasoning and paprika.
  6. Oil for frying.
  7. Salt and pepper for seasoning.
  8. 2 eggs beaten.
  9. 1 cup flour.

A simple dijon cream sauce is the perfect compliment. A cordon bleu or schnitzel cordon bleu is a dish of meat wrapped around cheese (or with cheese filling), then breaded and pan-fried or deep-fried. Chicken Cordon Bleu is a dish made with chicken breast wrapped around ham and cheese. It is then breaded and cooked by either frying or baking.

Step by step how to cook Chicken cordon bleu:

  1. Slice the chicken breasts down the side and tenderise/flatten with a kitchen mallet.
  2. Season with salt pepper paprika, and any other seasoning you like. Place cheese on the breast.
  3. Then layer with ham.
  4. In cling wrap, roll up the chicken inside the cling wrap and leave in the fridge to cool and set.
  5. Warm up the oil on the stove. While it's warming prepare the flour, egg and coating in 3 separate dishes. Coat first in flour, then egg then the breadcrumbs.
  6. Fry in the oil and flip over every couple of minutes to ensure even cooking and leave to rest on a kitchen towel.
  7. Cut even portions and serve.

This video that will show you how to make Chicken. Chicken Cordon Bleu was one of the first meals I attempted as a newly married woman. I had never heard of pounding chicken to make it thinner and spent a lot of time in the kitchen violently trying to. 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. Fortunately, chicken cordon bleu is pretty simple to put together yourself using scratch ingredients.