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Mushroom and Mozzarella Stuffed Rooster


Mushroom and Mozzarella Stuffed Chicken plated with salad and rice

This Mushroom and Mozzarella Stuffed Rooster makes a scrumptious dinner, full of savory taste! The mushrooms are sauteed with garlic and herbs, the hen is seasoned to perfection earlier than searing and baking, and is filled with a mix of tasty Mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses. I discovered a serving of this hen to be tremendous filling, and it’s simple to halve the recipe or make extra as wanted on your family. Every bit of this Mushroom and Mozzarella Stuffed Rooster is simply 399 energy, or 6 WW Factors on Weight Watchers. To view and monitor this recipe within the WW app, click on right here!

For those who love the Garlic Herb Mushrooms on this recipe, I do have a separate submit only for these! They’re nice as a aspect dish or a topping for hen or steak.

Garlic Herb Mushrooms

What ought to I serve this with?

This Mushroom and Mozzarella Stuffed Rooster would pair effectively with a wide range of tasty aspect dishes! I feel it will pair properly with a veggie aspect like my Stovetop Inexperienced Beans with Almonds or my Zucchini Casserole. I additionally suppose it will be terrific with my Broccoli Cheddar Twice Baked Potatoes, Roasted Fingerling Potatoes, or Straightforward Sluggish Cooker Carrots. Or you possibly can serve it with salad, seasoned rice, roasted greens, mashed potatoes, or no matter you like!

The Rooster Searing Step

This step is just a little messy, however completely value it to get a pleasant golden sear in your hen. It’s just a little tough to switch the hen to the pan and flip it over with out mushrooms slipping out, however don’t fear about it! If a couple of mushrooms fall out, you possibly can simply simply stuff them again in as soon as the hen is moved to the baking sheet earlier than placing them within the oven. I suppose I may have used barely much less mushrooms in order that they wouldn’t slip out throughout this step, however actually, I really feel like that is the right ratio of mushrooms to hen! Those that fall out can get stuffed again in or thrown on high and it’ll nonetheless be scrumptious.

Mushroom and Mozzarella Stuffed Chicken before cooking

Rooster Cutlets

I typically purchase an enormous pack of boneless, skinless hen breasts on the retailer after which use kitchen shears to trim them right down to make 4-6 oz cutlets to make use of in recipes. For this Mushroom and Mozzarella Stuffed Rooster my items have been about 6 ounces every. All the pieces I reduce off of the breasts to make the cutlets will get reduce into chunks to make hen bites, reminiscent of my Nashville Sizzling Rooster Bites, Barbecue Rubbed Rooster Bites, Lemon Pepper Rooster Bites, or Blackened Rooster Bites. It’s simple to weigh out 1 lb or 1.5 lb of hen chunks and a few 6 oz cutlets and freeze them for later in quart measurement freezer baggage. That manner, I at all times have some cutlets and a few hen bites available! Shopping for the majority packs of hen breasts is cost-effective, and chopping them into cutlets and bites ensured I’ve what I would like available once I go to make a recipe. I discover that kitchen shears make this job go faster and simpler than utilizing a knife, so I extremely suggest utilizing shears.

Mushroom and Mozzarella Stuffed Chicken close up

Extra Tasty Lightened Up Rooster Recipes

On the lookout for extra tasty, lightened up hen recipes like this Mushroom and Mozzarella Stuffed Rooster? Try my Skillet Rooster and Mushrooms in Gravy, Tacky Bacon Ranch Stuffed Rooster, Tacky Backyard Vegetable Baked Rooster, Mexican Road Corn Rooster, Tacky Broccoli Stuffed Rooster, Crispy Onion Dip Rooster, Crispy Rooster Parmesan, Apple and Brie Stuffed Rooster, Maple Dijon Rooster and Squash Skillet, Strawberry Balsamic Grilled Rooster, Ricotta Stuffed Rooster Bake, Cream Cheese and Herb Stuffed Rooster, Tuscan Olive Rooster, Pimento Cheese Stuffed Rooster, Cream Cheese Stuffed All the pieces Rooster, and lots of extra within the Rooster part of my recipe index!

Mushroom and Mozzarella Stuffed Rooster

This Mushroom and Mozzarella Stuffed Rooster makes a scrumptious dinner, full of savory taste!

  • 2 tablespoons mild butter, I take advantage of Land O’Lakes mild butter unfold with canola oil
  • 1 lb sliced white mushrooms
  • ¾ teaspoon salt, divided
  • ½ teaspoon black pepper, divided
  • ½ teaspoon dried thyme, divided
  • 1 tablespoon contemporary chopped parsley, (or a teaspoon of dried parsley)
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • 4 (6 oz every) boneless, skinless hen breasts, 24 oz whole (should you purchase massive breasts, trim them to six ounces every)
  • ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1 oz Parmesan cheese, finely shredded
  • 4 oz shredded 2% milk Mozzarella cheese
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • Pre-heat the oven to 400 levels Fahrenheit. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set it apart.

  • Place the butter in a skillet and soften over med-high warmth. Add the mushrooms and prepare dinner, stirring sometimes, for about 5 minutes. Add ¼ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon pepper, ¼ teaspoon thyme, the parsley, and the minced garlic and stir to mix. Cook dinner for one more 30-60 seconds till the garlic is aromatic. Take away from warmth.

  • Place the hen breasts on a chopping board. Utilizing a pointy knife, slice the breasts from the aspect (making a high and backside) nearly all through. In a small dish, mix the remaining ½ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon pepper, ¼ teaspoon thyme, and ¼ teaspoon garlic powder and stir collectively. Holding the hen breasts folded shut, sprinkle the seasoning over the tops of the breasts and flip over to sprinkle over the bottoms. Flip the breasts again over and open them up.

  • With every breast open on the slit, sprinkle the shredded Parmesan and Mozzarella cheeses evenly between the breasts, inserting it on one aspect the open hen. Prepare the sauteed mushrooms over high of the cheese layer on every breast. Shut the breasts, folding the highest half again over the mushrooms and cheese and press it down.

  • In a big skillet, add the olive oil and produce over medium-high warmth (in case your skillet or sauté pan doesn’t match all 4 breasts, simply prepare dinner two breasts at a time with 1 ½ teaspoons of oil every spherical). *Add the stuffed hen breasts to the pan and prepare dinner for about 1 minute till the bottoms are golden. Flip the breasts and prepare dinner for one more minute on the opposite aspect. *This step would possibly get messy! If a few of your mushrooms fall out into the pan when transferring, searing, or flipping, don’t fear! You possibly can at all times stuff the stray mushrooms again in when you switch the breasts to the baking sheet earlier than placing it within the oven.
  • Switch the breasts to the ready baking sheet and stuff any errant mushrooms again in if wanted. Place within the pre-heated oven. Bake for 20-24 minutes till hen is totally cooked by means of.

To view your present WW Factors for this recipe and monitor it within the WW app or website, click on right here!
WW Factors per (1 stuffed hen breast) serving: 6 (Factors calculated utilizing the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
Vitamin Info per (1 stuffed hen breast) serving:
399 energy, 8 g carbs, 2 g sugars, 17 g fats, 6 g saturated fats, 52 g protein, 1 g fiber, 257 mg sodium (from myfitnesspal.com)

Weight Watchers Factors Plus:
10 per (1 stuffed hen breast) serving (PP calculated utilizing a Weight Watchers PointsPlus calculator and the vitamin data)