Saturday, September 15, 2012

Another Pinterest Success Story

Yes, this is a story of another Pinterest inspiration. A delicious one. I don't make dinner often, but this Chicken-Parmesan Bundles post on recipe.com inspired me to immediately get up and go to Kroger to get ingredients (I miss Meijer like crazy). I also like to surprise Megan with dinner when she gets home from working on my days off. =)

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Ingredients:

4 oz. PHILADELPHIA cream cheese, softened
10 oz. frozen, chopped spinach, thawed and well-drained
1-1/4 cups Mozzarella cheese, divided
6 Tbsp. grated Parmesan cheese, divided
6 small boneless skinless chicken breast halves, pounded to 1/4 inch thickness
1 egg
10 RITZ crackers, crushed
1-1/2 cups spaghetti sauce, heated

**Also handy to have toothpicks!

Directions:

1. HEAT oven to 375 degrees F.
2. MIX cream cheese, spinach, 1 cup mozzarella and 3 Tbsp. Parmesan until well blended; spread onto chicken breasts. Starting at one short end of each breast, roll up chicken tightly. Secure with wooden toothpicks, if desired.
3. BEAT egg in shallow dish. Mix remaining Parmesan and cracker crumbs in separate shallow dish. Dip chicken in egg, then roll in crumb mixture to evenly coat. Place, seam-sides down, in 13x9-inch baking dish sprayed with cooking spray.
4. BAKE 30 minutes or until chicken is done (165 degrees F). Remove and discard toothpicks, if using. Serve chicken topped with spaghetti sauce and remaining mozzarella.

So, I tweaked the recipe a little bit and cut down on the amount of chicken since I was only cooking for Megan and myself. And my technique might not have been the neatest... my bundles fell apart a little bit. But I've also never pounded chicken in my life, and I've never really made chicken on my own. I would say I did pretty well! And I would definitely make this recipe again -- it was FANTASTIC. Highly recommended. It probably has a ton of calories, but it was too good to matter.

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-- Jenny =)