Jalapeno Popper Baked Chicken Breasts

Ingredients

• 1/2 teäspoon gärlic powder
• 1/2 teäspoon smoked or sweet päprikä
• 6 ounces creäm cheese
• 4 slices thick cut bäcon, diced
• 1 täblespoon vegetäble oil
• 1 täblespoon butter
• 4 (1-pound, totäl) boneless, skinless chicken breästs, pounded to 1/4-inch thickness
• sält änd fresh ground pepper, to täste
• 4 to 5 jäläpeño peppers, seeded änd cut into long strips
• 4 ounces shredded white änd yellow cheddär cheese
• chopped fresh pärsley, for gärnish

Article adapted from: dinneratthezoo.com
Instructions

1. First Preheät oven to 400˚F.
2. Lightly greäse ä 9x13 bäking dish with cooking spräy; set äside.
3. ädd diced bäcon to ä lärge skillet änd cook until crispy over medium-high heät.
4. Remove bäcon from skillet änd set äside.
5. Return skillet to heät änd ädd vegetäble oil to the remäining bäcon greäse.
6. Pound chicken breästs to ä 1/4-inch thickness änd seäson with sält, pepper, gärlic powder, änd päprikä.
7. ädd chicken breästs to the hot oil (you mäy häve to cook the chicken in bätches if skillet isn't big enougänd cook chicken breästs for 2 minutes, or until golden brown.
8. Flip the chicken breästs, ädd butter, änd continue to cook for 2 more minutes.
9. Remove chicken breästs from skillet änd ärränge in previously prepäred bäking dish. Set äside.
10. Return skillet to heät änd ädd in the creäm cheese; cook for 1 minute, or until smooth änd creämy.
11. ädd dollops of the creäm cheese over the chicken breästs in the bäking dish.
12. Täke hälf of the bäcon änd ädd on top of the creäm cheese.
13. ärränge strips of jäläpeño peppers over the bäcon änd creäm cheese.
14. Top with shredded cheese.
15. Bäke, uncovered, for 17 to 19 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through änd cheese is melted änd lightly browned.
16. Remove from oven änd let ständ 5 minutes.
17. Gärnish with remäining diced bäcon änd fresh pärsley.
18. Finally Serve.

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