Oh man do I have a delicious recipe for you today! This one comes compliments of my Memaw. I had it a couple of times at her house and then just had to get the recipe from her. It is a chicken dish that is delicious, I don’t usually eat a lot of meat (I focus more on the sides) but I clean my plate with this meal.
Ingredients:
– 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
– 16 oz. can whole berry cranberry sauce
– 8 Tbs butter, divided
– 16 oz phyllo dough, defrosted in the refrigerator
– 1/2 cup butter, melted
Directions:
1. Cut each chicken breast in half the short way and pound each piece to lightly flatten.
2. Place one tablespoon cranberry and one tablespoon of butter on one half of chicken breast and place the other half on top, do this for all pieces
3. Cut dough in half the long way
4. Stack cut strips of dough to make a star shape, just layer two strips to make an X then add remaining two on top to form a +, brush each piece with melted butter as you stack them
5. Place filled chicken in center of your dough star and pull ends up together in the center, pinching them closed at the top like a beggar’s purse (Note: This dough is very thin and breaks easily but as long as you aren’t going for perfection it will still taste delicious even if it doesn’t look great)
6. Bake at 375 for 25 minutes, temp chicken to ensure it is fully cooked
Serves 4
This recipe is delicious, the cranberry and chicken inside the buttery dough is so yummy! The dough is sometimes a bit tricky to work with but you just have to not worry about what it looks like and go for it. It is delicious. Let me know if you try this recipe out and what you think? We love it!
Debi and Charly @ Adorned From Above says
This looks delicious. We have a link party called Wednesdays Adorned From Above Blog Hop and would love to have you share this and any other posts with everyone. It runs from Tuesday night through midnight Sunday. Here is the link to the party.
http://www.adornedfromabove.com/2013/04/wednesdays-adorned-from-above-blog-hop_30.html
We hope to see you there.
Debi and Charly @ Adorned From Above
Emily says
Thank you! It really is a delicious recipe. I would love to join the link party, I will head over there now. Thank you for coming by. Hope you will follow us on Facebook or Twitter!
zentMRS - Love in the Ktchen says
This looks fantastic – and I love the name of it! Gift Wrapped – it’s perfect! I’d love for you to bring this to Tuesday’s Table – http://zentmrs.blogspot.com/2013/05/tuesdays-table-for-may-7-2013-and.html
Emily says
Thank you! I hope you enjoy it. Heading over to your link party now. Hope you will follow us on Facebook or Twitter and come back!
Kenneth Goh says
Excellent Ideas. In Asian , there is a type of chicken dish called “paper wrapped chicken”. It is wrap using some paper and deep fried it. Yours apparently are more healthy. Thanks for sharing. From DBB and pin.
Emily says
Thank you for coming by and pinning it! That sounds like a good dish too!
Emily