CHICKEN CORDON BLEU 
4 whole chicken breasts
8 (3") square slices boiled ham
8 (2"x2") pieces (1 oz. each) Gruyere cheese
1 stick butter
1 c. fresh bread crumbs
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. paprika

Have the butcher halve, bone and skin the chicken breasts. Pull each half breast open in the middle to form a pocket. Fold ham around cheese and tuck into pocket. Melt butter in pie pan. Make fresh bread crumbs in blender if possible. Mix with salt and paprika in a second pie pan. Roll stuffed chicken breast in melted butter, then in the crumb mixture. Coat well. Place in a buttered baking dish and bake at 400 degrees for 40 minutes or until brown.

 

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