Stuffed Chicken Recipes

Steps:

• Lightly oil grill and preheat to medium high.
• In a small skillet, heat vegetable oil. Saute onion and celery until tender. Stir in hot sauce and mustard and mix all together. Remove from heat.
• Cut pockets into chicken breasts and stuff with onion mixture. Saute chicken in skillet 2 to 3 minutes each side, until lightly browned. Remove from skillet and grill over medium high heat for 10 to 15 minutes on each side, or until juices run clear. Serve with remainder of onion mixture as a sauce/topping.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325°F.
• Mix hot water and margarine in large bowl until margarine is melted. Add stuffing mix; stir just until moistened. Set aside. (Do not stuff chicken until ready to bake.)
• Stuff chicken lightly with prepared stuffing; close openings with skewers and string. Place, breast-side up, on rack in baking pan; sprinkle with thyme.
• Bake 1 hour 40 min. or until chicken is done (165°F) and stuffing is heated through (165ºF), basting occasionally with pan juices.

Steps:

• In a large non-stick frying pan over med.
• heat, sauté onion and garlic in 1 tbsp.
• of oil until soft (about 3-4 min.) Cool.
• Add onion and garlic mixture to remaining stuffing ingredients and mix together in a medium sized bowl.
• With a rolling pin or meat pounder, flatten chicken breasts.
• Divide stuffing equally in the centre of each breast.
• Tightly roll chicken around the stuffing, tucking in the ends.
• Seal with toothpicks.
• In the same frying pan, add 1 tbsp.
• each of olive oil and butter.
• Over med-high heat, brown the stuffed chicken breasts, turning several times, for 5 min.
• Reduce heat to med-low; cover pan and simmer for 10 min.
• turning occasionally.
• Remove chicken from pan and keep warm.
• Increase heat to high, add sauce ingredients and boil until liquid is reduced by half.
• Slice each breast into 4 pieces, drizzle sauce over chicken, and serve.