Pimento Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breasts
I was going dorsum through the pictures for my spider web log to come across what I hadn't posted virtually nonetheless together with couldn't believe I hadn't done this one! This came from our no carb calendar week a few weeks ago. I flora it on Pinterest.com together with idea it looked awesome--and depression carb! I'm pretty much a sucker for anything pimento cheese, together with thus I knew nosotros had to convey it. Oh yeah, together with it had bacon inwards it. Sign me up!
Pimento Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breasts
Source: Weight-Watchers-Recipes.net via Pinterest.com
1 spell applewood-smoked bacon
3/4 loving cup shredded cheddar cheese
two tablespoons minced greenish onions
1 1/2 tablespoons diced pimientos
1 tablespoon canola mayonnaise
two teaspoons fresh lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon hot sauce
1/2 teaspoon salt, divided
iv (6-ounce) skinless, boneless chicken thorax halves
1/2 teaspoon dark pepper
1 tablespoon canola oil
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Cook bacon inwards a large ovenproof skillet until crisp. Remove bacon, reserving drippings inwards pan; crumble bacon. Combine bacon, adjacent half dozen ingredients, together with 1/4 teaspoon salt. Cut a 1-inch-wide slit into the thick goal of each thorax half; carefully cutting downward to the pump of chicken to shape a deep pocket. Divide cheese mixture evenly amid pockets. Secure amongst wooden picks. Sprinkle chicken amongst 1/4 teaspoon tabular array salt together with pepper.
3. Heat pan over medium-high heat. Add crude oil to drippings. Add chicken to pan; saute iv minutes. Turn chicken over. Bake at 350° for 12 minutes; allow represent v minutes.
Makes iv Servings
Nutritional Info Per Serving: Calories 204, Carbs twenty g, Fat eleven g, Fiber three g, Protein vii g
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I changed this upwards only slightly, similar yesteryear adding to a greater extent than bacon. Actually I was making roughly other dish that used bacon, together with thus I cooked upwards quite a chip to hold out included inwards both dishes. I dearest cooking things inwards bacon grease. I'm certain it's a fast rails to a pump attack, but it's together with thus delicious. This recipe worked out slap-up amongst the dish I had planned to larn amongst it because at that spot were a lot of similar components. Don't you lot dearest when that happens?!
This was something nosotros all actually loved, together with I volition definitely larn inwards again. Ooey, gooey cheese together with bacon together with bacon drippings?! Hells yeah!
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