Chicken Cordon Bleu recipe

on this addition of Steve's cooking I'm going to show you how to make a classic chicken codon blue okay chicken coton blue delicious easy to make um a lot of people get intimidated by it because of the name but it's really easy to make we're going to be using some fantastic sweet H gorgeous and some swiss cheese okay the first thing we need to do is cut the breast in half so lightly gently just cut it in half fingers flat now Place plastic wrap on The Chopping board trim Place chicken in the middle and fold now gently flatten it out I'm using a meat back you can use a rolling pin just as good okay so that's about where I want it nice so first very important season some salt ground black pepper again add plastic wrap to The Chopping board trim Place chicken in the middle add ham and cheese using the plastic wrap roll tight now twist and make it all nice nice and tight and that goes in the fridge for 30 minutes so now add in your flour just enough to coat and your egg and then whisk and your breadcrumbs add a touch of salt to the flour and some ground black pepper and then mix it now Place toothpicks in the chicken to seal now coat the chicken in flour remove the excess and egg wash and breadcrumbs add olive oil to a pan add chicken and seal on all sides until Golden Brown Look at that it's like a block all the sides are sealed it looks gorgeous so now what we're going to do we're going to put it in the oven and cook it m now place in a 350° oven for about 20 minutes so while the chicken's cooking we're going to make a nice py sauce so finally dice your salot turn M your fingers Dice look at that beautiful finally D shalot and same to your garlic in a pan add olive oil and chalot and you just want to lightly sweat these for about 5 minutes next your garlic and then cook out for 2 minutes next plain flour and just cook the flour out for 2 to 3 minutes just to get that grein in this out next add stock and some white wine now stir well and we're going to reduce this by half so that's reduced now adding cream now mix well now bring the cream up to the boil and reduce 1 to 2 minutes some fresh parsley and then just roughly chop smells so fresh I love it and just give it a good stir look at that looks Fant fantastic let's taste need salt ground black pepper so mix good let's taste perfect gorgeous when the chicken is rested slice once the chicken is sliced with a pairing knife take out the toothpicks so there you have it a simple version of a tasty cordon blue that you can try at home for free look at that beauty looks gorgeous can't wait to tuck in let's have a bit of this chicken chicken that chicken is so moist

Channel: Stevescooking

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Keywords: Chicken, Cordon Bleu, ham, cheese, swiss, Eating, Food, Chicken (food), Cooking, Recipe, Restaurant, Kitchen, Meat, Dinner, Recipes, Cuisine, Sauce, parsley sauce, creamy, gordon ramsay, chef, peas, potatoes

Id: KiZfxq-ZyWI

Length: 4min 52sec (292 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 28 2013