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Hasselback Jalapeño Popper Chicken


Ingredients:

  • 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts.
  • 4 slices precooked hormel black label bacon ( if you don’t use the precooked bacon you’ll want to cook the bacon before adding into the food processor)
  • 3 oz lite cream cheese.
  • 1 tsp garlic powder.
  • 1 tbsp diced canned jalapeños
  • 1/2 cup Trader Joe’s lite cheese blend or any lite cheese blend

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Combine all the ingredients (except for the chicken breasts) into a food processor. Blend well.
  3. Using a knife, cut 4-5 horizontal slices (halfway down) along the middle of each chicken breast. Add a tsp of cheese mixture in the middle of each cut.
  4. Place the chicken breasts in a baking pan and cook in a preheated oven for about 40 minutes.

Servings: Makes 4 chicken breasts/ 4 Freestyle SmartPoints® per chicken breast

Yield: 4 servings

Hasselback Jalapeño Popper Chicken

Hasselback Jalapeño Popper Chicken

This creamy delicious chicken has just the right amount of kick to it.

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes

Ingredients

  • 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts.
  • 4 slices pre cooked hormel black label bacon ( if you don't use the precooked bacon you'll want to cook the bacon before adding into the food processor)
  • 3 oz light cream cheese
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 Tbsp canned jalapeños
  • 1/2 cup light cheese blend or ( Trader Joe's lite 3 cheese blend)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Combine all the ingredients (except for the chicken breasts) into a food processor. Blend well.
  3. Using a knife, cut 4-5 horizontal slices (halfway down) along the middle of each chicken breast. Add a tsp of cheese mixture in the middle of each cut.
  4. Place the chicken breasts in a baking pan and cook in a preheated oven for about 40 minutes.

Servings: Makes 4 chicken breasts/ 4 Freestyle SmartPoints® per chicken breast

Notes

If you use any other ingredient brands that aren't listed in the recipe the points may vary. Please double check the point value using the ww recipe builder for point value accuracy.

 

Note: If you use any other ingredient brands that aren’t listed in the recipe the points may vary. Please double check the point value using the ww recipe builder for point value accuracy.

marie johson

Saturday 28th of March 2020

WOW this popper chicken looks so delicious <3

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