Chicken Cordon Blue Re-Do! 197 Calories!

Chicken Cordon Blue

I love chicken cordon blue but I don’t love that it’s breaded and sautéed and then covered in ham and cheese, so everything that I love, I also hate and that simply wasn’t going to do.  Here is another recipe redo that allows you all of the deliciousness in a classic recipe with a fraction of the calories and time!

Ingredients

2 chicken breasts, butterflied and pounded thin

4 slices Virginia ham from the deli

4 slices Swiss cheese, from the deli

2 tbsp. Dijon mustard

1 tbsp. honey

Salt and Pepper

Coconut oil for cooking

Instructions

Cut your chicken into thin cutlets, and pound them very thin with a meat mallet, or back of a frying pan (careful if you have granite countertops!!!!).  Season all sides with salt and pepper.

Foil line a baking sheet. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a large skillet, add your cooking oil of choice and cook chicken 3-4 minutes per side.  Place cooked chicken on foil lined baking sheet and set aside.

Combine Dijon mustard, and honey in a bowl and drizzle each cutlet with the mixture.

Roll the deli ham up and slice into ¼ inch pieces, think ham strips.

Roll the deli Swiss up and slice into ¼ inch pieces, same as above.

Divide the ham and Swiss over the chicken cutlets.

Bake 10 minutes or until cheese has melted.

I made this as a big batch of chicken and used it as a meal prep for part of the week.  I simply put it in containers with some green veggies and cauliflower rice for a low carb low calorie lunch!  Each serving of chicken (4oz of chicken with ham and Swiss) came out to approximately 197 calories per serving which with a cup of green veggies and half a cup of cauliflower rice was a great lunch!