Gift-Wrapped Chicken

Name: Gift-Wrapped Chicken
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 59 milliliters butter; 118 milliliters butter, melted; 0 teaspoons pepper; 454 grams 1/2 pkg. phyllo dough, thawed; 1 teaspoons salt; 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts; 59 milliliters whole-berry cranberry sauce

Gift-Wrapped Chicken might be just the main course you are searching for. This recipe makes 4 servings with 800 calories, 32g of protein, and 44g of fat each. This recipe covers 24% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes. Head to the store and pick up whole-berry cranberry sauce, salt, phyllo dough, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the butter you could follow this main course with the Cinnamon Butter Cake as a dessert.

Instructions

Cut each chicken breast in half the short way and pound each piece to flatten slightly; sprinkle with salt and pepper.

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Salt And Pepper

Chicken Breast

Place one tablespoon cranberry sauce and one tablespoon unmelted butter on each of 4 pieces of chicken breast and place another breast piece on top.

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Cranberry Sauce

Chicken Breast

Butter

Unroll dough and cut dough in half lengthwise. Working with 8 strips of dough at a time, stack 2 strips together for a total of 4 stacks. (Keep remaining phyllo covered with a damp towel to prevent drying out.)

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Dough

Brush each stack with melted butter. To make package, layer 2 sets of stacks to make an "x," in center of dough stack and pull ends up together in the center, pinching ends closed at the top like a beggar's purse.

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Butter

Dough

Place on a greased baking sheet. Repeat procedure with remaining ingredients.

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Baking Sheet