Easy Stuffed Chicken Breasts with Sweet Life BBQ Sauce

 

Prep and Cook the Stuffing Time:  Maybe 20 minutes...25 minutes max.  

Prep Time to get Chicken Breasts Ready:  15 minutes  

Rolling the Chicken Breasts up:  5 minutes  

Cooking Time in the oven:  35 to 40 minutes in a 400 degree oven…plus 5 minutes of broil time to finish.

Total prep and cooking time to amaze your friends and family (also known as hanging out time and impressing time):  Right around an hour or so…at an hour, your family will be hovering in the kitchen like vultures wondering where the incredible smells are coming from.

Experience Level needed to pull off WOW Factor:  if you can pound a nail in with a hammer…you can pound a chicken breast …call it BEGINNER!

How many people can you serve:  You’ll be able to have 8 to 10 good servings for this recipe.  If you have a football player type in the house…maybe 2 servings…

Tools Needed:
A meat mallet!  Use the flat side… (a roofing hammer would work well too, flat side…not pointy side!)

Chicken Ingredients:

2 large Chicken Breasts

Olive oil

Symphony of Seasonings Grill Rub from Sweet Life Sauce Company

Stuffing Ingredients:

1 large sweet onion or 2 medium sweet onions

1 apple…make it a Mac or a Granny Smith

Garlic…bout 4 to 5 cloves…we LIKE garlic

Grated Asiago or Gruyere Cheese…to your taste…we use 1 teaspoon per chicken breast

Little bit of Brown Sugar

Topping to finish:

Sweet Life BBQ Sauce from Sweet Life Sauce Company

If you want to see the video recipe...here it is!

 

 

Directions:
Get a decent sized pan on the stove.  Put 1 teaspoon of Olive Oil and about 2 pats of butter in the pan on medium high to high heat.  Cut the onions up anyway you want…slice ’em, dice ‘em, make ‘em rings…whatever…it does not matter.  Place them in the heated pan…get them sautéed for about 15 minutes or so. 

Now mince your garlic and set it aside. 

Then, peel and cut your apple up so you have small wedge shaped pieces of apple…set them aside as well.  Place your entire apple, onion, and garlic skins and scrapings in your compost bin…put them back to the earth man!

Now…time to get in the moment.  Think about something that frustrates you; envision that “thing” in or on the raw chicken breast.  Get a little worked up…say a couple “C’mon’s”...a few “What are you lookin’ at’s”…get the blood pumping….

The time has come.  It is time to beat the livin’ tar out of your chicken breasts.  Place a protective sheet of plastic or wax paper or something between you and the chicken breast…this is to keep chicken “stuff” off the mallet or roofing hammer while you are beating it.  Start the beating…beat that chicken breast until it is about an inch thick…it should kinda spread out as you are beating it.  This is the chicken breasts’ veiled attempt to get away from you but don’t let it…keep it contained under the protective sheet.  Keep beating until you get it about an inch thick and it stops running.

Once you have the proper thickness…back off and admire your victory.  You can talk some smack right here…berate the chicken breast like you have never berated a chicken breast before….take some deep breaths…count to 10…calm…ahhhhhhh. 

Place the beaten chicken breasts aside…in peace.

The beating is over now…compose yourself and find that garlic you set aside earlier.

Add the garlic to the pan…let it join up with the onions for about 5 or 6 minutes.  The onions should be browning and caramelizing by now.  For a little added sweetness, you can put a little Brown Sugar in at this time…say a teaspoon.  Mix it in…let the onions continue to cook.
Finish the stuffing mix by adding the apples for the past 5 minutes or so.  Once the apples are heated in the mixture, turn the heat off the pan and set aside to cool a bit.

IT IS TIME TO STUFF THE CHICKEN BREASTS!  WHOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!  Take one of the pounded chicken breasts and spoon ½ of the onion, apple, and garlic mixture on it.  Sprinkle the grated cheese on.  Now kinda tuck the ends in a little and roll the chicken breast up like a burrito.   You’re trying to make this be like a stuffed chicken pillow of tastiness.  Place this rolled up chicken breast, seam down, in a glass baking dish that has been coated with some olive oil or no-stick cooking spray. 

Coat the tops of the chicken breast with a little Symphony of Seasonings Grilling Rub from Sweet Life Sauce Company and brush on some olive oil to top them off.  Repeat the steps above and roll the other chicken breast up. 

Cook the chicken breasts in the pre-heated oven at 400 degrees for 30 to 39 minutes…just check for doneness as it gets past the 30 minute mark.  Once there, take the baking dish out of the oven, crank the oven to Broil.

Spread a thick coating of Sweet Life BBQ Sauce from Sweet Life Sauce Company on the tops of the Chicken Breasts.  Return the baking dish to the oven and broil the chicken breasts for about 5 minutes….the sauce will caramelize in the heat to finish off your tasty meal.

Bring the baking dish out of the oven and transfer the two chicken breasts to a cutting board…let them rest for 5 minutes.

Cut the chicken breasts up into 1 inch thick slices and prepare to serve them up!

Enjoy!  ALL will be well in the land!