Blue Cheese Chicken Breasts

By margiekyle

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup chopped fresh mushrooms
• 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
• 1 cup chopped fresh spinach
• 1/4 teaspoon minced shallots
• 2 teaspoons minced fresh thyme
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt plus extra for sprinkling
• 1/8 cup bacon crumbles
• 1/4 cup blue cheese
• 1/4 cup Daisy Brand Cottage Cheese , drained
• 1/4 cup bread crumbs
• 4 split chicken breasts
• 2 teaspoons olive oil
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper

Details

Servings 4
Preparation time 30mins
Cooking time 75mins
Adapted from daisybrand.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Sauté the chopped mushrooms in the vegetable oil. Drain the mushroom liquid, return to heat and add the spinach, minced shallots and thyme leaves. Sauté the vegetables for an additional 3 minutes. Add ½ teaspoons of kosher salt, cooked crumbled bacon, blue cheese, drained cottage cheese and bread crumbs to the vegetable mixture. Stir to mix thoroughly. Pound the chicken breasts to ¼-inches thick between two pieces of waxed paper. Spoon ¼ of the spinach cheese onto each breast and roll each up. Rub the outside of chicken with olive oil and sprinkle with additional kosher salt and the ground black pepper. Bake the chicken on a baking rack at 325 degrees for approximately 30 minutes to 45 minutes or until internal temperature reaches 160 degrees.