Summer Bucket List; Tasty Chicken Cordon Bleu

 For this week's blog, I decided to write out a recipe I have been wanting to make for years but never took the time to actually make: Chicken Cordon Bleu! You can ask my sister, mom, and dad about this. I've been saying for years now that I want to prepare chicken cordon bleu but I have never done it.

As part of our summer bucket list, I added an item of wanting to make more recipes in general but also some difficult ones. Now, chicken cordon bleu shouldn't be the most difficult recipe to make but because I've been putting it off for so many years I decided that this will be my first bucket list item. For now, I will only write out the recipe that I want to make translated into English and then next time you'll get to see the results!

I found the recipe on this website: https://overetengesproken.nl/kip-cordon-bleu/. As the website is in Dutch I will translate the recipe to the best of my abilities to English.

Ingredients:

• 4 biological chicken fillets
• 4-8 slices of ham
• 75 grams of young cheese in slices or shredded
• 75 grams of bread-crumbs
• 1 1/2 tablespoons of small chopped fresh curly parsley
• Salt and pepper
• 1 egg, whisked
• Flour
• Butter

Extras:

• toothpicks to close the chicken

What to do?

1. Clean the chicken, cut off the loose piece en cut every chicken fillet through its length so that there is an open(ish) space.
2. Place a slice (or two) of ham into a piece of chicken. Put a little bit of cheese on every slice of ham and fold the ham nicely around the cheese to close it. When closing the ham nicely around the cheese it prohibits the cheese from melting away. Close the chicken with a toothpick
3. Mix the breadcrumbs with the chopped parsley and bring to taste with salt and pepper and sprinkle over a plate. Pour the whisked egg onto another plate.
4. Sprinkle some salt and pepper onto the filled chicken fillets and cover them lightly with flour. Cover the chicken evenly so there's a slight layer of flour around it. Then make sure to get some of the whisked egg on both sides of the chicken fillets and let the rest of the egg drip from the fillets. Then cover the chicken with breadcrumbs
5. Heat up a baking pan and melt the butter. When the pan is heated and the bubbles in the butter have gone cook the chicken all around. Lower the temperature of the heat and cook the chicken until it is done and gold-brown.
6. Serve the chicken and make sure to warn your guests that there's a toothpick in the meat. But mostly, enjoy!

I am looking forward to making this recipe and will share the results.

This is not my own recipe and I found it here: https://overetengesproken.nl/kip-cordon-bleu/