Chicken Cordon Bleu for Two

Name: Chicken Cordon Bleu for Two
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 2/3 cup, panko bread crumbs; 1 tablespoon, unsalted butter, melted; , Salt and pepper; 2 ounces, Gruyère cheese, cut into four 2½ by ½-inch sticks; 4 slices, deli ham (4 ounces); 2 (6- to 8-ounce), boneless, skinless chicken breasts, trimmed; 4 teaspoons, Dijon mustard; 1 , large egg, lightly beaten

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By Rebeccah Marsters

Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2013

Stuffing, breading, and frying chicken breasts is traditional, but a scaled-down version of chicken cordon bleu demanded an easier approach.

SERVES2

TIME1¼ hours

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Making this 1960s dinner party classic is a laborious process involving pounding meat, stuffing, breading, and frying. To streamline and scale down our recipe, we start by cutting boneless chicken breasts in half to make four small cutlets....

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