Smoked chicken cordon bleu. Note: Due to the fact that these are wrapped in bacon, they can handle a lot of smoke and I recommend keeping the smoke going for the entire time if possible. A delicious French classic, chicken cordon bleu is made of chicken breasts stuffed with ham and Swiss cheese. My EASY Chicken Cordon Bleu recipe.
An easy Chicken Cordon Bleu which is quick to prepare, and baked rather than fried.
All the flavour, all the crunch, a beautiful golden crumb, and it's better for you!
A cordon bleu or schnitzel cordon bleu is a dish of meat wrapped around cheese (or with cheese filling), then breaded and pan-fried or deep-fried.
You can cook Smoked chicken cordon bleu using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Smoked chicken cordon bleu
- Prepare 4 of chicken breast.
- Prepare 8 slice of bacon.
- You need 1 of favorite hard cheese.
- You need 4 of large slices of ham.
- It's 1 of panko bread crumbs (optional).
- It's 1 of egg.
Veal or pork cordon bleu is made of veal or pork pounded thin and wrapped around a slice of ham and a slice of cheese, breaded. This lightened version of Chicken Cordon Bleu remains tres delicieuse despite a modest amount of butter. Made this for my picky family and all said it was delicious. Added smoked paprika instead of paprika.
Smoked chicken cordon bleu step by step
- Pound out chicken breasts to a approximately 1\4 inch.
- Season chicken breasts with your favorite rub.
- Roll the chicken breast up with the sliced hard cheese and ham. Use hard cheeses because deli sliced cheese will melt and run out..
- Use the bacon strips to hold the chicken breast, ham, and cheese together. Bacon is like the duct tape of bbq!.
- For a different texture you can egg wash the chicken cordon bleu and coat with panko bread crumbs..
- Smoke the chicken cordon bleu for four(ish) hours at 250 - 275°F or until the chicken is cooked through..
Will add little more cheese in the center next time. Chicken cordon bleu on the Traeger is a great way to do something new with chicken breasts. Don your tuxedo shirt, Traeger baked Cordon Bleu requires your fancy t-shirt. Though traditionally deep-fried, now "Blue Ribbon" Chicken is infused with robust smoke and baked to perfection. First layer is one stick of butter sliced up.
