Jalapeño - Cheese Stuffed Chicken
Recipe: #15302
October 28, 2014
Categories: Chicken, Cheese, Gluten-Free, High Protein, Low Carbohydrate, No Eggs, Hot Peppers, Spicy, Chicken Dinner, more
"I love roasted jalapeños. Usually when I BBQ I throw a bunch on the barbecue and then saved them in a jar cover with olive oil."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (247.9 g)
- Calories 349.8
- Total Fat - 18.1 g
- Saturated Fat - 3.1 g
- Cholesterol - 96.4 mg
- Sodium - 101.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 8.3 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.9 g
- Sugars - 5.1 g
- Protein - 36.7 g
- Calcium - 33.2 mg
- Iron - 2.3 mg
- Vitamin C - 152 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 400. Place whole jalapeños on a baking dish and bake.
Step 2
Cut chicken breast in half, you will get 2 thin steaks out of each breast.
Step 3
Place a strip of cheese down the center of each chicken breast half.
Step 4
Get the jalapeños out of the oven, cut in halve, scrape the seeds and put one half on top of each cheese slice.
Step 5
Roll chicken over and secure with toothpicks.
Step 6
Mix garlic salt, cumin and chili in a small bowl and sprinkle all over the chicken rolls
Step 7
In a large skillet,slowly brown chicken in olive oil. You want the inside to be cooked and the cheese not to drip.
Step 8
Discard toothpicks. Serve.
Tips
No special items needed.