Mushroom spinach stuffed chicken. In a large skillet, saute the mushrooms, onion and garlic in butter until tender. Remove from the heat; stir in the Swiss cheese, bread crumbs, lemon zest, salt and pepper. Carefully loosen chicken skin on one side of each chicken breast half to form a pocket; stuff with spinach mixture.
Season with salt and pepper to taste. Stir in mozzarella cheese and mix until incorporated. Using a sharp knife, slice a slit into the side of each chicken breast. You can have Mushroom spinach stuffed chicken using 9 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Mushroom spinach stuffed chicken
- It's 2 large of boneless skinless chicken breasts.
- It's 6 1/2 oz of bagged spinach.
- It's 1 lb of mushrooms.
- It's 1 envelope of hidden valley ranch powder package.
- Prepare 1 tsp of pepper.
- You need 1 tsp of salt.
- You need 1 tsp of onion powder.
- Prepare 1 stick of butter.
- You need 1 tsp of veggi oil.
Move the knife back and forth to make a pocket. Season the chicken liberally with salt and. Add spinach and wine cook until wine is evaporated. Carefully wrap each stuffed chicken breast in a slice of prosciutto and chill until needed.
Mushroom spinach stuffed chicken instructions
- Place mushrooms in crockpot on low.
- In a large 12" pan put oil in and melt butter.
- When melted stir in ranch packet.
- Pour melted butter over mushrooms in crockpot and cook for 3 hrs on low.
- After mushrooms are done remove from crockpot and let cool. (Save a few mushrooms and juices for later. No need to turn off crockpot).
- Cook spinach in 12" pan while chopping mushrooms finely..
- add mushrooms to spinach and finish cooking.
- Remove mushroom spinach stuffing from heat and chop into smaller chunks.
- Preheat oven to 300.
- Use the pocket method on chicken to create the pouch for stuffing. I make the intro slit large enough for a spoon to get through..
- Stuff the mushroom spinach stuffing in until you cant get any more in. I stuff with clean fingers to keep the slit small enough not to need to tie or toothpick the intro hole.
- Heat the pan with oil and a bit of butter until it steams nicely.
- Salt pepper and garlic powder all sides of chicken and brown all sides (about 1 min each side).
- Remove browned chicken from pan and place them into a glass baking pan.
- Put in oven and cook for about 2 hrs (cook chicken to at least 170 degrees) basting every 15 mins with the juices left over from crockpot mushrooms..
- Cut into 1/2" slices and serve with a few leftover crockpot mushrooms.
Can be prepared up to a day ahead. Tangy feta cheese and spinach make a zesty stuffing for chicken wrapped with bacon.. Then to the spinach mix I added chopped onion and mushroom as well as chopped bacon instead of wrapping the chicken in bacon. Once the chicken was cooked I topped it with a bernaise sauce. Hi Karina! we Made your Cheesy Garlic Butter Mushroom Stuffed Chicken last night, it was awesome!