Chicken, Ham, and Cheese Roulades

This savory chicken, ham, and swiss cheese roulade is also known as chicken cordon bleu but I like to call them chicken with ham and cheese roll ups.

Roulades are flattened meat like chicken rolled up with different ingredients like ham and cheese in this case.

Pound Chicken Thin Before Adding Ham and Cheese

Pounding chicken breast flat is not a super sexy image. But it does change the regular ole breast into a flat canvas to stuff ham and cheese into and then roll into a roulade.  

Butterfly the breast (cut in half horizontally like a book), cover with two pieces of plastic wrap and get out some aggression by pounding the chicken with a meat tenderizer.

Add the ham and cheese to the middle of the flattened chicken and roll it up.

Dredging Chicken Ham and Cheese Roll Ups

When dusting or dredging the chicken in the flour or panko don't move the chicken around too much.  

Try to gently push the flour into the chicken, pick up and repeat.  Don't hold the chicken into the coating and try to push the coating on.  Think gentle giant!  You will get a more even distribution of the coating with this method.

Chicken Ham and Cheese Roulade Tips

Gluten free or just want dinner to go a little faster?  Put chicken roulades with ham and cheese straight in the oven without the flour, egg, butter, or panko bread crumbs.  

Want individual appetizer serving sizes? Stick a toothpick in individual chicken roulade pieces and serve as appetizers instead of a main.

Is your chicken roulade not browning?  Turn on the broiler for a couple minutes, but carefully watch them so they don't burn. Some broilers run intensely hot and some don't.

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