Chicken With Homemade Herb Cheese

Submitted by Watkinslady30

"Chicken breast wrapped around a homemade herb cream cheese filling. This recipe would make a great dish for company. It looks impressive and fairly inexpensive. This would be a great dish for those on a lower carbohydrate diet. I would serve this with some noodles or maybe a rice pilaf. Sometimes, I vary the recipe depending on my mood with different spices like tarragon and use paprika in addition to the salt and pepper before baking."

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 0.5 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons margarine, softened
• 1 tablespoon half-and-half or 1 tablespoon light cream
• 1⁄8 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 dash dried oregano, crushed
• 1 dash dried thyme, crushed
• 1 dash dried marjoram, crushed
• 1 dash dried dill
• 1 dash dried basil, crushed
• 1 dash fresh ground black pepper
• 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
• fresh ground black pepper
• salt

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a medium bowl, stir together the softened cream cheese, softened butter or margarine, half and half or light cream, garlic powder, oregano, thyme, marjoram, dillweed, basil and dash of pepper. Stir until the mixture is well blended and smooth; set aside.
3. Rinse the chicken breast halves under cold running water; pat dry with paper towels. Place each breast half, boned side up, between 2 pieces of heavy duty clear plastic wrap. Working from the center out to the edges, lightly pound the chicken breasts with the flat side of a meat mallet until the chicken is 1/4 inch thick. Remove the plastic wrap.
4. Place 1 heaping tablespoon of the cream cheese mixture in the center of each flattened chicken breast half.
5. Wrap the chicken breast around the cream cheese filling; secure with wooden toothpicks.
6. Place the filled chicken breasts, seam side down, in a 2 quart square baking dish. Season the chicken with the freshly ground pepper and salt to taste.
7. Bake in the 350 degree oven about 30 minutes, or until the chicken is tender and no longer pink.
8. Spoon any melted cream cheese in the baking dish over the chicken.
9. Serve hot.

Reviews

[Paris D]

Incredibly good! This one is a keeper!

 

[Victoria G.]

LOVED IT. I added some chopped cooked bacon and some cajun spice to the cheese and topped it with EVOO and paprika. After it was done inside I hit it with the broiler for 5 min and it looks and tastes great. I would like to share the beautiful photo with you.

 

[Heather W.]

These were OK. We were a little underwhelmed. The cheese mixture was nice enough. But the chicken needed some sort of browning or something on the outside. It stayed very pale and really needed something....... I may try to tweak it to our family's liking.

 

[LadyAmnesty]

Awesome recipe!

 

[bmxmama]

I picked this recipe for Spring PAC 2007. And it was so delicious! My family really enjoyed it. I used Chicken Cutlets and pounded them out thin and added the cheese to them and rolled them up around the cheese. I did add a little garlic powder to the cheese mixture. I found it all to be very flavorful and ingredients I would most likely have at any given time. Thanks for another great recipe!