Bacon Wrapped Chicken Stuffed with Spinach and Ricotta

I don't buy bacon at the grocery store often- cuz I know I will binge eat it. But I made an exception this week for this recipe I found online.

What you need:
3-4 chicken breasts
2/3 cup ricotta cheese
1 (8oz) bag of spinach
2/3 cup parmesan cheese
1 package of bacon
2 teaspoons minced garlic
2 tablespoons Italian seasoning
2 teaspoons oil

salt and pepper

toothpicks

cooking spray

 

 

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. In a medium saucepan, heat your oil on medium heat. Add your minced garlic and cook until brown (about 30 seconds). Add in your spinach and cook until it wilts. Transfer the spinach to a bowl to cool.

 

 

 

Place your chicken breasts in between two pieces of plastic wrap or parchment paper. Pound the chicken with your fist or a meat mallet until it is about 1/4 inch thick. Slice the chicken horizontally and open like a book.

 

 

Now your spinach should have cooled. Add in your ricotta, parmesan and Italian seasoning and mix everything together.

 

 

Place a couple spoon fulls of the mixture inside the flap and fold it over.

 

 

 

Now, the original recipe calls for 2 slices of bacon per piece of chicken. But let's be honest, you can never have enough bacon- so why not get a little wild and wrap the sucker in it?

 

 

Insert a few toothpicks to keep everything together and its ready for the oven!

 

 

Place your chicken in a 13x9 pan coated with cooking oil. Cook on 350 for 45 minutes, and then another 10 minutes under the broiler to crisp up that fatty deliciousness (be careful of the toothpicks catching on fire! that added a little bit of excitement to my night!)

 

 

OMG this was SO good! Restaurant quality with even more flavor due to the extra bacon! And the best part about stuffing anything? The epic 'cut in half' pic- I'm SO food network..