Bacon Chicken Cheese Roulade

This Bacon Chicken Cheese Roulade will impress your taste buds without breaking a sweat. Say hello to your new dinner obsession.

Picture this: tender, juicy chicken breasts, pounded thin like they owe you money, then coated in a savory blend of kosher salt and freshly ground pepper. But wait, it gets better! Shallots, those tiny flavor bombs are sautéed until soft as a pillow. Then, the shallots are folded into a creamy concoction of cream cheese and fresh thyme leaves. Talk about flavor town!

Now, here comes the fun part – the assembly! That creamy dreamy mixture gets lovingly spread onto each chicken breast, then rolled up like a burrito at a chicken-loving fiesta. But wait, we’re not done yet! We’re about to take things up a notch with a bacon blanket. Yes, you heard that right – each chicken roll gets wrapped snugly in bacon, because everything is better with bacon, right? What I love most about this recipe is the big flavor that comes from a few ingredients.

Sear & Bake:

Now, hold onto your apron strings, because we’re not just stopping at the stovetop. Oh no, we’re taking this flavor train all the way to the oven! These little bundles of joy get a quick pan-fry to crisp up that bacon. After, it’s off to the oven for a cozy bake. Because let’s be real, everything tastes better when baked to perfection.

And just like that, in a whirlwind of sizzling bacon and creamy cheese, your dinner dreams have come true. Bacon Chicken Cheese Roulade – it’s the kind of simple yet oh-so-satisfying dish that’ll have you doing a happy dance around the kitchen. So go ahead, whip up a batch tonight, and treat yourself to a dinner that’s as easy as it is delicious! Your taste buds will thank you later.

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Bacon Cheese Chicken Roulade

Course Dinner

Cuisine American

Keyword bacon chicken roulade, chicken cheese roulade, Chicken Roulade, crean cheese stuffed chicken

Prep Time 25 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Servings 4

Author Lora Wiley-Lennartz

Ingredients

• 4 chicken breasts pounded thin. approx. 100 g each
• Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
• 2 shallots
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil divided
• 4 oz cream cheese room temperature
• 2 tablespoons chopped thyme leaves
• 4 slices of bacon

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350F. Grease a baking dish.
2. Season the chicken breasts with salt and pepper. Set aside.
3. Peel and dice the shallots.
4. Heat the oil in a skillet and saute the shallots until transparent.
5. Season with salt and pepper
6. Mix the cream cheese with the shallots and rosemary.
7. Spread the mixture on top of the chicken breasts.
8. roll up the chicken with the bacon lengthwise.
9. Add the remaining olive oil to the skillet.
10. Fry the chicken rolls on all sides for about 2 minutes.
11. Transfer them to the baking dish.

12. Bake for 20 minutes.

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