creamy spinach, bacon wrapped chicken breasts
- 1/4 cup cream cheese
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 3 green onions
- 1/2 cup shreaded pepperjack cheese or parmasean
- 1 pinch pepper
- 1 packages 8oz bag spinach
- 2 clove garlic minced
- 4 bonless, skinless chicken breasts
- 12 strips of bacon of choice
- Preheat oven to 375F
- 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 375F 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!!
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cream cheese, sour cream, green onions, pepperjack cheese, pepper, spinach, clove garlic, chicken breasts, bacon
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/342272-creamy-spinach-bacon-wrapped-chicken-breasts (may not work)