Chicken in Puff Pastry will become your new favorite way to eat chicken. This recipe consists of chicken breast layered on top of garlic herb cheese spread enveloped in flakey puff pastry dough and baked in the oven until golden brown. Served with a mustard cream sauce, this dish is perfect as an elegant dinner or a fun meal with friends. And you can prep it in 15 minutes!
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American
Servings: 4
Prep Time: 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time: 20 minutesminutes
Total Time: 35 minutesminutes
Ingredients
2sheetspuff pastry
4smallchicken breasts
4ouncesgarlic herb cheese spread
1egg
Sauce
2tablespoonbutter
2tablespoonshallot(finely chopped)
2cupchicken broth
⅔cupheavy cream
2tablespoondijon mustard
Instructions
Preheat oven to 400º. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
Roll out both sheets of puff pastry into a square. Cut each sheet in half so that you have 4 squares. Spread the cheese spread over half of each square, leaving a ½ inch border.
Dry the chicken breasts with a paper towel. Salt and pepper both sides and place one on top of the cheese spread on each of the four squares. Use a pastry brush to brush water on the edges of the puff pastry. Fold the pastry over the chicken breast and pinch the edges to seal. Transfer to the prepared baking sheet.
Whisk the egg with a tablespoon of water and brush over the tops of the puff pastry bundles. Bake for 20 minutes until golden brown and a meat thermometer registers 165º.
Sauce:
Melt butter in a saucepan. Add shallots and cook over medium heat for 2 minutes until slightly softened. Add chicken broth and turn up the heat, cooking until it has reduced by half, about 6-8 minutes. Add the cream and continue cooking until slightly thickened, about 3 minutes. Add mustard and salt and pepper to taste. Serve warm.
Barbara's Notes + Tips
If the chicken breasts are large, pound them and cut them in half.