Cream Cheese Chicken

Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Servings: 6
Yield: 6 servings

Description

In this chicken recipe with cream cheese, boneless breasts are pounded thin, then stuffed with a mushroom and cream cheese mixture. The rolls are coated with brown sugar and Dijon and rolled in chopped nuts before baking.

Ingredients

1 teaspoon butter
8 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced
6 ounces cream cheese, softened
6 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup Dijon mustard
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Directions

1 Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
2 Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat. Sauté mushrooms until tender. Reduce heat to low, and stir in cream cheese until melted. Remove from heat.
3 Pound chicken breasts thin with a meat mallet. Spread with mushroom mixture, and roll up.
4 In a small bowl, mix together brown sugar and Dijon mustard. Press mustard mixture onto chicken. Roll chicken in chopped walnuts. Place in a baking dish.
5 Bake in the preheated oven 15 to 20 minutes, or until chicken is no longer pink and juices run clear.