Baked Chicken Parmesan Stuffed with Spinach & Mozzarella

I thought I’d let Andy take a break while I made dinner for my family today. I poked around the Internet for baked chicken parmesan recipes and I sort of came up with my own recipe. (I don’t always measure so I apologize if you want to try to make this! I’m sure you can follow along and experiment a bit. It will be fine. Just be sure to THAW your chicken….is that a hint of foreshadowing there? Oh yeah…keep reading.)

First, I thawed four chicken breasts (well, I thawed them most of the way…) and also thawed and drained one 10oz package of chopped spinach.  I mixed the spinach with a handfull of shredded mozzarella cheese. Then I sliced the chicken breasts through one side like Andy did when he made his feta and spinach stuffed chicken dinner and stuffed the spinach/cheese mix into the chicken breasts.

 

Next, I chopped some fat free seasoned breadcrumbs with my handy dandy Pampered Chef Chopper. I sprinkled some italian seasoning and parmesan cheese over the breadcrumbs and mixed it all up.

I took one egg and added a little bit of my Pampered Chef Garlic Infused Oil, and beat it with a fork. Then I dipped each breast in the egg mixture (both sides), rolled it around in the breadcrumb mix, then put them in the glass pan that I spritzed with a bit of oil and put it all in the oven at 400 degrees.

I let it bake for about twenty minutes, then took it out.

I added marinara sauce and mozzarella cheese and put it back in the oven with some garlic breadsticks.

After another ten minutes or so I took it out and put it on a plate of angel hair pasta and served it with broccoli and cottage cheese.

Looks pretty good, right? (Sorry about the poor photography…I think my camera is on its last leg.) Check out the inside of the chicken:

Yeah, it looked really good so I took a bite. And chewed this bit of rubbery half cooked chicken…blech!!!! GROSS!!! Remember I said I thawed the chicken? Well, I didn’t thaw it completely so it didn’t get done in the amount of time it should have. I felt so bad, my family had to sit around and wait while I kept baking and checking, microwaving, baking, and checking. My picture perfect meal wasn’t as spectacular as I had hoped, but I do think I’ll try this recipe again and I will be sure to cook it long enough next time.