Stuffed Chicken Three Ways

Today I had some extra time so I decided to prep some food for the rest of the week. I work from 7am-8pm tomorrow and I work all weekend so I wanted to make sure I had some good food on hand for the upcoming weekend.

I first started off with three chicken breasts and butterflied them (to the best of my ability) You butterfly chicken by taking a sharp knife and cutting it down the center. Be careful not to cut your hand (Been there, done that)

Next I wanted to flatten them out a bit. I threw the butterflied chicken breast into a ziplock bag.

I didn't have a meat clever so I just took a sauce pan and pounded the chicken breast out so they got nice and thin. If you have experienced a bad day, this is the best way to get your anger out!

Once I finished pounding the chicken out I grabbed the ingredients I was going to use to stuff the chicken. I had two different types of Goat Cheese I needed to use up so I decided to stuff one chicken breast with the herb goat cheese and the other with the cinnamon cranberry goat cheese.

The third chicken breast I stuffed with part skim ricotta and a little bit of Parmesan cheese.

The first chicken breast was stuffed with the cranberry goat cheese and some pecans.

The second one is the parmesan cheese, ricotta cheese, and some crushed red pepper flakes for a little spice.

Finally, the herb goat cheese with some fresh tomato slices.

Next try and roll the chicken breasts to the best of your ability. If you have toothpicks place them into the chicken breast to hold them together. I didn't have any so mine came a bit unraveled.

I seasoned all three chicken breasts with salt, pepper, and Italian seasoning. Next preheat a pan with a little olive oil in it. When the pan is nice and hot put the three chicken breasts in the pan and saute until browned on one side and then flip!

As you can see my last chicken breast was a bit over stuffed!

Nice and brown!

I let the chicken cook for about 5-7 minutes on each side then took them out of the pan and let them rest on a plate. Remember they will continue to cook while resting so make sure you don't overcook them or you will get some dry chicken.

While the chicken was sitting I prepared a salad with arugula and yellow bell peppers. Then I took the herb goat cheese and tomato stuffed chicken breast and sliced it up to fit on top of my salad.

YUMMMY! The tomato was all warm and the goat cheese melted. Absolutely delicious.

A great salad after a great workout (swam for an hour today and my body is killing me!)

I topped my salad with a little dressing!

The salad was fantastic and extremely filling! I wrapped the other chicken breast and plan on eating one for lunch tomorrow and one for Friday. So excited :)