Baked Chicken Rolls with Cheese and Butter
February 13th, 2016 in Chicken, Main Dishes by Julia Volhina
Total cooking time: 1h 15min
These resemble chicken kiev for the part that they are chicken rolls which are stuffed with garlicky butter. But they are much easier to make and are a bit healthier: because of no breading and no deep frying.
Chicken thin cutlets cut works perfectly for this one (if you can buy it), but whole breast can be sliced into cutlets as well, it will just be slightly more work to do to make sure slices are even and there are no holes in the chicken so stuffing doesn’t leak when cooking.
Butter and cheese stuffed chicken rolls taste great when served hot, right out the oven. Good when paired with mashed or baked potatoes. Perfect for romantic or celebratory dinner.
Ingredients:
- 8 chicken thin cut cutlets (2.5-3lbs)
- 1.5 cups of shredded mozzarella cheese (separated into 1 cup and 0.5 cups)
- 2 garlic cloves
- 3.5 oz of butter softened to room temperature
- Bunch of fresh green parsley
- 2 tablespoons of mayo
- Ground black pepper to taste
- Salt to taste
- Oil for frying
How to prepare, step-by-step:
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Prepare ingredients:
Baked Chicken Rolls with Cheese and Butter: Step 1 -
Start off by preparing stuffing:
Chop parsley 
Add 1 cup of shredded cheese 
Peel and press garlic
Add chopped butter 
Season with salt and black pepper 
Mix everything good
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If you use whole chicken breast, you may need to slice them into thinner cutlets or butterfly them before proceeding (I used pre-cut thin cutlets, so I didn’t need to do this); then season each piece with salt and ground black pepper to taste from both sides:
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Them using meat tenderizer carefully beat and flatten each piece from both sides (if you beat meat through plastic food wrap folded in couple layers the process will be less messy):
Baked Chicken Rolls with Cheese and Butter: Step 4a 
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Now stuff chicken cutlets with stuffing and form rolls:
Arrange a bit of stuffing on one side 
Fold meat to form a roll around 
Secure roll with wooden toothpicks
Repeat for all meat and stuffing:
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Warm oven up to 300F. Warm skillet up with a bit of oil. Fry all chicken rolls from all sides until lightly colored. Once meat meeting points are fried over a bit it is safe to remove toothpicks holding them together, gradually remove all toothpicks one by one (but carefully, if roll unrolls, the stuffing will leak out):
Baked Chicken Rolls with Cheese and Butter: Step 6a 
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Move rolls which are colored from all sides to a baking pan, arrange them in a single layer:
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Smear rolls with mayo on top:
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Dress with remaining shredded cheese:
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And put baking pan to the oven for 15-20 mins uncovered, once ready carefully take baking pan from the oven:
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Serve chicken rolls hot with some side:
Baked Chicken Rolls with Cheese and Butter Recipe
What sides do you suggest to serving this with?
Mashed potatoes will work great, or pretty much any potatoes.
Hello Julia,
I enjoy your website a lot. Many of the dishes you have listed remind me my childhood in Ukraine. Those were GOOD times…
I have a question regrading this recipe, and to be more specific it is about the mayo. In the step, when prepping the stuffing, you do not mention to add mayo to it. I thought that the 2 oz of mayo was for the stuffing and the 2 tbs for smearing the rolls before baking them. Could you, please, clarify this for me?
Thank you and please add more dishes to the list!!!! 🙂
Hello Iryna,
thank you for your kind words, I truly appreciate them!
In regards to your question, I made a mistake in the ingredients list, thank you for pointing it out. I use mayo for the topping only, just listed it twice for some reason. Stuffing is all butter, cheese, garlic, green parsley and salt/pepper.