creamy spinach, bacon wrapped chicken breasts. Optional, but you can marinade breasts a couple of hours prior to flattening them. Put the spinach in a large bowl and put. Cut chicken breasts in half, season with salt, pepper, and smoked paprika.
If you don't have any on hand, you can use plain cream cheese. In a mixing bowl, combine the cream cheese, spinach, garlic, onions, mozzarella and Parmesan. Mix until the cream cheese is evenly distributed. You can have creamy spinach, bacon wrapped chicken breasts using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of creamy spinach, bacon wrapped chicken breasts
- It's of ingredients.
- Prepare 1/4 cup of cream cheese.
- It's 1/2 cup of sour cream.
- Prepare 3 of green onions.
- It's 1/2 cup of shreaded pepperjack cheese or parmasean.
- Prepare 1 pinch of pepper.
- You need 1 packages of 8oz bag spinach.
- It's 2 clove of garlic minced.
- You need 4 of bonless, skinless chicken breasts.
- It's 12 of strips of bacon of choice.
Top each chicken breast with the creamed spinach, chopped cooked bacon, cooked mushrooms and broken slices of pepper jack cheese. Season with salt, pepper, and a pinch of red pepper flakes. Fill every other slit with cream cheese mixture and. To make the garlic butter chicken thighs with creamy spinach and bacon: Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat.
creamy spinach, bacon wrapped chicken breasts instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Take each chicken breast and pound flat to 1/2" thickness. Optional, but you can marinade breasts a couple of hours prior to flattening them. Place in a bag with 1 cup of buttermilk or milk and tablespoon of lemon juice..
- Put the spinach in a large bowl and put in microwave for 2-3 minutes or until wilted..
- After spinach is done combine sour cream, cream cheese, parmasean or pepperjack cheese, minced garlic, sliced green onions, and pepper in same bowl as spinach. Mix well..
- Fry bacon or microwave strips for 5 minutes. You don't want to cook to long as it will cook the rest of the way in oven..
- Take the spinach, sour cream etc mixture and place spoonfuls of it in the center of each flattened chicken breast. You should use all the mixture..
- Fold each chicken breast over and take 3 bacon strips to wrap chicken breast together with mixture in the middle. Use a few tooth picks to secure..
- Place chicken breasts in a glass oven safe dish. I lined the dish with tin foil before placing them in. Makes clean up easier..
- Place in oven 375°F for 35 minutes uncovered. After that If you desire bacon even more crispy put oven on broil for 2 minutes..
- Take out of oven and let cool for couple minutes take toothpicks out and enjoy with some fresh cooked veggies or a salad. Hope you enjoy!!!.
Stir the ricotta cheese, Parmesan cheese, Italian seasoning, garlic salt, and onion powder into the cooked spinach until blended. Evenly divide this mixture among the chicken breasts, then roll each into an oblong shape, like a burrito, tucking in the ends. Season to taste with salt and pepper, and sprinkle with Italian seasoning. Lay the chicken breasts out on a clean surface, and spoon some of the spinach mixture onto each one. Roll up chicken to enclose the spinach, then wrap each chicken breast with two slices of bacon.