Naked Chicken Cordon Bacon Almost Food

CHICKEN CORDON BACON (A VARIATION OF CORDON BLEU)

Steps:

• Saute bacon until done but not too crisp. Discard oil but save tidbits and very small amount of pan drippings.
• Butterfly chicken breast so the breast is now thinner but bigger.
• Place cheese and crumbled bacon slice in center of each chicken breast.
• Roll up chicken and place seam side down.
• Sprinkle breadcrumbs on top of breasts.
• Bake at 375F until breasts reach 170°F.
• In the bacon pan, add the can of soup and milk. Whisk to get up pan drippings. Heat until warm.
• Serve chicken with gravy on top or with the gravy on your starchy sidedish such as rice.

NAKED CHICKEN CORDON BACON ALMOST

Steps:

• Add bacon to a skillet to render out bacon grease. When bacon is done, pull out to side, and retain grease.
• Add chicken to skillet and fry, flipping to both sides.
• Once the chicken has browned on both sides, butterfly by cutting down the length of the chicken, but not completely in half. Season with garlic, pepper, and thyme.
• Fry, flipping sides until the chicken has reached a safe temperature to eat.
• While frying, eat one slice of bacon, because you're only going to need one. You are hungry, after all.
• On the "inside" of the butterflied chicken, add cheese, bacon, cheese. Then close the butterfly, and add the remainder of the cheese to the top.
• Serve hot with sliced avocado and dijon mustard.

BACON-WRAPPED CHICKEN CORDON BLEU

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• In a mixing bowl, combine the chicken bullion cubes, crushed up, the bread crumbs, (or I used 6 pieces of toast, crushed into crumbs) cumin, oregano, salt and pepper. Set aside.
• Cut boneless, skinless chicken breasts in half long ways leaving one side intact. Insert one slice of the sliced pre-cooked ham and one slice of Swiss cheese into center of each chicken breast.
• Beat the egg in a mixing bowl and coat each chicken breast. Then coat each one in the bread crumb mixture. Wrap two pieces of bacon around each chicken breast, not overlapping.
• Wrap each piece of chicken individually in a piece of aluminum foil loosely so that it can be opened on the top. Place all three in a 13 x 9 inches baking dish. Cook for 1 hour, 15 minutes. It may take less time (again, this was the first time doing this). At that point, turn oven to broil at 400 degrees. Open the tops of each of the chicken pieces and cook for 2-3 minutes to finish cooking the bacon.