Bacon and Blue Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breasts

Name: Bacon and Blue Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breasts
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 slices smoked bacon, cooked until crisp and finely chopped; 1 pinch Pinch freshly ground black pepper; 113 grams blue cheese, crumbled (recommended: Maytag or Point Reyes); 2 teaspoons chopped fresh chives; 4 skin-on, bone-in organic chicken breasts; 227 grams (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature

Bacon and Blue Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breasts requires approximately 1 hour from start to finish. For $2.01 per serving, you get a main course that serves 4. Watching your figure? This gluten free and fodmap friendly recipe has 683 calories, 15g of protein, and 63g of fat per serving. Head to the store and pick up bacon, skin-on, cheese, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the unsalted butter you could follow this main course with the Almond Milk Chocolate Pudding as a dessert. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Blue Cheese Stuffed, Walnut Crusted Chicken Breasts, Cheese & Bacon Jam Stuffed Chicken Breasts, and Goat Cheese, Bacon and Raisins Stuffed Chicken Breasts.

Instructions

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In a large bowl, using a rubber spatula, mix the butter, blue cheese, bacon, and chives together until combined. Dollop half of the compound butter along the long edge of a 12-inch piece of parchment or waxed paper.

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Butter

Blue Cheese

Chives

Bacon

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Spatula

Bowl

Roll into a log, twisting opposite ways on both ends of the paper to create a tightly wrapped log of butter. Refrigerate or freeze for another use.

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Butter

Roll

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.

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Oven

Using your fingers, carefully loosen the skin from chicken breasts. Stuff about 1/4 of the remaining blue cheese butter under the skin of each breast; smoothing the skin to evenly distribute the butter over the surface of the breast meat.

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Chicken Breast

Blue Cheese

Butter

Meat

Put the chicken on a rimmed baking sheet and rub any remaining butter over the skin. Season each breast with just a pinch of freshly ground black pepper.

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Ground Black Pepper

Whole Chicken

Butter

Dry Seasoning Rub

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Baking Sheet

Roast the chicken breasts, skin sides up, in the center of the oven until skin is crisped and chicken is cooked through, about 35 to 40 minutes. An instant-read thermometer should register 165 degrees F when inserted into the thickest part of the meat.

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Chicken Breast

Meat

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Kitchen Thermometer