Hasselback Chicken

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

If you're on Facebook, you probably have seen those yummy food videos by Tasty floating around.  I've tried a couple of their recipes so far and they have been faaaantastic, so when I saw one for hasselback chicken I had to try it.  Mainly because 1. it looked super easy and 2. I had no idea what a hasselback chicken was so if course I had to make it.

Apparently it's a spin off from hasselback potatoes, which are Sweden's version of baked potatoes.  They were popularized as the namesake dish of the restaurant at the Hasselbacken Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden- thank you Wiki!  I've actually had these lovelies before but I never knew they had a name.  A glorified baked potato sliced up to look all fancy and sh*t?!!  YASSSSSS!!!!!

Anyways, back to the hasselback chicken.  Tasty's recipe calls for ricotta cheese and spinach stuffed into the chicken.  Easy peasy but I didn't have any ricotta cheese.  I mean who keeps that in their fridge all the time?  I guess if you make lasagna a lot?  So I decided to stuff it with ingredients I did have and if I don't say so myself, it still turned out deeeeelish :)  Enjoy!




Hasselback Chicken
Serves 2 adults and a toddler

Ingredients
2 boneless and skinless chicken breasts
1 TBS olive oil
Fresh mozzarella cheese slices
1 cup of spinach
1 clove of garlic
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon basil 
grated fresh pepper
sea salt (optional)

Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Cut vertical slices in chicken breasts, do not go all the way through. 
3. Mix onion powder, garlic powder, oregano, basil, pepper and salt in a bowl.  Sprinkle over both sides of the chicken.    
4. Place one slice of mozzarella cheese in each slice of the chicken. 
5. Sautee garlic and spinach for a couple minutes, it will cook the rest of the way in the oven.
6. Place sauteed spinach and garlic into each slice next to mozzarella.
7. Place chicken in a baking dish prepared with foil.
8. Bake for 25-30 min.



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