{"id":9617,"date":"2011-10-24T21:34:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T04:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=9617"},"modified":"2011-10-24T21:34:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T04:34:36","slug":"chicken-breast-stuffed-with-bacon-feta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=9617","title":{"rendered":"Chicken Breast Stuffed with Bacon &#038; Feta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner tonight&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6 oz Crumbled Feta Cheese (I used the fat-free President Herbed w\/tomato &amp; basil)<\/li>\n<li>Uncured Bacon, cooked and crumbled (I bought the pre-packaged stuff &#8211; can get at Trader Joe&#8217;s or most grocery stores)<\/li>\n<li>6 Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breasts, pounded flat (I bought the chicken breast steaks as they are already thinner)<\/li>\n<li>Toothpicks or kitchen twine (or whatever you can find in your kitchen drawer)<\/li>\n<li>1 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp (each) Dried Oregano, Dried Basil<\/li>\n<li>1 can (28 oz.) Diced Tomatoes &amp; Juice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Combine feta and bacon in a mixing bowl. Place 1\/4 cup of the cheese\/bacon mixture on the center of each chicken breast. Fold breast over to enclose mixture; fasten with a toothpick or kitchen twine.<\/p>\n<p>Heat a large saut\u00e9 pan and add oil. Heat oil to medium and add stuffed breasts; turn breasts while cooking to brown on all sides. Add tomatoes and seasoning to pan. Lower heat to a simmer; cook about 15 &#8211; 20 minutes or until chicken reaches an internal temperature of 165\u00b0. Place chicken on a serving platter (remove toothpicks or twine) and spoon tomato sauce over.<\/p>\n<p>I served with quinoa and some sauteed zucchini and mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p>YUM!<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I found this recipe at Trader Joe&#8217;s. Obviously they had all of their barnded ingrediemts but I didn&#8217;t want to drive over the hill to go to Trader Joe&#8217;s. See TJ &#8211; you should have opened up where the New Leaf is now (old Albertsons) and then I would have one. But nooooooo&#8230;our market is too small for you on the coast. Whatevs. Excellent recipe though! :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner tonight&#8230;. 6 oz Crumbled Feta Cheese (I used the fat-free President Herbed w\/tomato &amp; basil) Uncured Bacon, cooked and crumbled (I bought the pre-packaged stuff &#8211; can get at Trader Joe&#8217;s or most grocery stores) 6 Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breasts, pounded flat (I bought the chicken breast steaks as they are already thinner) Toothpicks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9621,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617\/revisions\/9621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}