Cream cheese & proscuitto stuffed chicken breasts

Are you bored with bland Chicken breasts? I am!
I just found the secret to the heavenliest stuffed chicken breasts recipe.
Let’s improve the boring chicken and break the secret with me : cream cheese, prosciutto, dried tomatoes and basil.
Perfectly smoked on my Cuisinart Clermont Pellet Grill & smoker, I swear you will never want to go back to plain chicken ever again.

Chicken breasts stuffed with prociutto, dried tomatoes cream cheese

Prep Time 15 mins
Cook Time 20 mins
Total Time 35 mins

Equipment

  • Cuisinart Clermont Pellet Grill & Smoker
  • Kitchen twine
  • Saran wrap
  • Meat mallet

Ingredients
  

  • 4 chicken breasts
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 1 tbsp pepper
  • 1 tbsp garlic powder
  • 1 cup cream cheese
  • 8 slices proscuitto
  • 1 cup dried tomatoes in oil
  • 16 leaves basilic fresh

Instructions
 

  • Slice open the chicken breasts, cutting with the knife parrallel to the cutting board. Stop cutting toward the end, to leave the breast attached in one piece.
  • Open the chicken breasts flat and place a saran wrap over the meat.
  • Pound the chicken breasts with a mallet to flatten to about ¼ inch thickness.
  • Season with salt, pepper and garlic powder.
  • Put a spoonful of cream cheese on the chicken breasts.
  • Top with 2 slices of proscuitto, ¼ cup of dried tomatoes and 4 leaves of basilic.
  • Roll the chicken breasts tightly.
  • Tie with some kitchen twine.
  • Start your smoker at 450°F.
  • Cook the stuffed chicken breasts for about 10 minutes, turn over and cook for another 10 mins, on until you reach 160°F internal temperature.
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