Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Blue Cheese-Stuffed Chicken with Buffalo Sauce

This recipe is from the March Cooking Light. Although I am not a big chicken fan (I think chicken is pretty tasteless), the addition of the blue cheese and sauce made for a really tasty dish. (Thanks, Julia, for reminding me to add panko to the ingredients!)

Ingredients:
Chicken
-1 cup Panko
-1/2 C crumbled blue cheese
-1.5 T reduced-fat sour cream
-1 T fresh lemon juice
-several dashes pepper
-4 chicken breast halves (I actually only made 2)
-1/4 C flour
-2 T milk
-1 beaten egg
-1T butter
Sauce 
-1.5 tsp butter
-6 T finely chopped drained bottled roasted red bell peppers
-2 T water
-1 T Worcestershire
-1 tsp mince garlic
-1 tsp hot sauce
Garlic Mashed Potatoes
-2 large potatoes, cubed
-2 T reduced fat sour cream
-2 T milk
-2 T butter
-2 tsp mined garlic
-salt and pepper to taste

Steps:

(Preheat oven to 350°)
1. Boil potatoes for about 25 minutes, or until soft.
2. Combine first 4 ingredients in a small bowl. Cut a horizontal slit through thickest portion of each chicken breast half to form a pocket. Stuff cheese mixture evenly into pockets.

3. Place flour in a shallow dish. Combine milk and egg in a shallow dish, stirring well with a whisk. Place panko in a shallow dish. Working with 1 chicken breast half at a time, dredge chicken in flour, then dip in egg mixture; dredge in panko. Repeat procedure with remaining chicken breast.
4. Heat a large ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat. Add 1 tablespoon butter to pan; swirl until butter melts. Arrange chicken in pan; cook 4 minutes or until browned. Turn chicken over; place skillet in oven (I wasn't sure if my skillet was oven proof, so I transferred the chicken to a pan). Bake at 350° for 20 minutes or until done.

5. While chicken bakes, combine remaining 1.5 tsp butter, bell peppers, water, Worcestershire, and garlic in a small saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a simmer; cook until butter melts. Remove from heat, and stir in hot sauce. Serve sauce with chicken.

6. Mash up potatoes and add butter, sour cream, milk, s&p.

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