Mushroom and Mozzarella Stuffed Rooster
This Mushroom and Mozzarella Stuffed Rooster makes a scrumptious dinner, filled with savory taste! The mushrooms are sauteed with garlic and herbs, the rooster is seasoned to perfection earlier than searing and baking, and is full of a mix of tasty Mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses. I discovered a serving of this rooster to be tremendous filling, and it’s straightforward to halve the recipe or make extra as wanted to your family. Every bit of this Mushroom and Mozzarella Stuffed Rooster is simply 399 energy, or 6 WW Factors on Weight Watchers. To view and monitor this recipe within the WW app, click on right here!
In the event you love the Garlic Herb Mushrooms on this recipe, I do have a separate submit only for these! They’re nice as a aspect dish or a topping for rooster or steak.
What ought to I serve this with?
This Mushroom and Mozzarella Stuffed Rooster would pair nicely with quite a lot of tasty aspect dishes! I believe it will pair properly with a veggie aspect like my Stovetop Inexperienced Beans with Almonds or my Zucchini Casserole. I additionally assume it will be terrific with my Broccoli Cheddar Twice Baked Potatoes, Roasted Fingerling Potatoes, or Simple Sluggish Cooker Carrots. Or you might serve it with salad, seasoned rice, roasted greens, mashed potatoes, or no matter you like!
The Rooster Searing Step
This step is slightly messy, however completely price it to get a pleasant golden sear in your rooster. It’s slightly difficult to switch the rooster to the pan and flip it over with out mushrooms slipping out, however don’t fear about it! If just a few mushrooms fall out, you may simply simply stuff them again in as soon as the rooster is moved to the baking sheet earlier than placing them within the oven. I suppose I might have used barely much less mushrooms in order that they wouldn’t slip out throughout this step, however truthfully, I really feel like that is the proper ratio of mushrooms to rooster! Those that fall out can get stuffed again in or thrown on prime and it’ll nonetheless be scrumptious.
Rooster Cutlets
I typically purchase an enormous pack of boneless, skinless rooster breasts on the retailer after which use kitchen shears to trim them right down to make 4-6 oz cutlets to make use of in recipes. For this Mushroom and Mozzarella Stuffed Rooster my items have been about 6 ounces every. The whole lot I minimize off of the breasts to make the cutlets will get minimize into chunks to make rooster bites, equivalent to my Nashville Scorching Rooster Bites, Barbecue Rubbed Rooster Bites, Lemon Pepper Rooster Bites, or Blackened Rooster Bites. It’s straightforward to weigh out 1 lb or 1.5 lb of rooster chunks and a few 6 oz cutlets and freeze them for later in quart dimension freezer baggage. That means, I all the time have some cutlets and a few rooster bites available! Shopping for the majority packs of rooster breasts is cost-effective, and chopping them into cutlets and bites ensured I’ve what I want available after I go to make a recipe. I discover that kitchen shears make this activity go faster and simpler than utilizing a knife, so I extremely advocate utilizing shears.
Extra Tasty Lightened Up Rooster Recipes
On the lookout for extra tasty, lightened up rooster recipes like this Mushroom and Mozzarella Stuffed Rooster? Try my Skillet Rooster and Mushrooms in Gravy, Tacky Bacon Ranch Stuffed Rooster, Tacky Backyard Vegetable Baked Rooster, Mexican Road Corn Rooster, Tacky Broccoli Stuffed Rooster, Crispy Onion Dip Rooster, Crispy Rooster Parmesan, Apple and Brie Stuffed Rooster, Maple Dijon Rooster and Squash Skillet, Strawberry Balsamic Grilled Rooster, Ricotta Stuffed Rooster Bake, Cream Cheese and Herb Stuffed Rooster, Tuscan Olive Rooster, Pimento Cheese Stuffed Rooster, Cream Cheese Stuffed The whole lot Rooster, and plenty of extra within the Rooster part of my recipe index!
Mushroom and Mozzarella Stuffed Rooster
This Mushroom and Mozzarella Stuffed Rooster makes a scrumptious dinner, filled with savory taste!
- 2 tablespoons mild butter, I exploit Land O’Lakes mild butter unfold with canola oil
- 1 lb sliced white mushrooms
- ¾ teaspoon salt, divided
- ½ teaspoon black pepper, divided
- ½ teaspoon dried thyme, divided
- 1 tablespoon recent chopped parsley, (or a teaspoon of dried parsley)
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 4 (6 oz every) boneless, skinless rooster breasts, 24 oz complete (in the event you purchase giant breasts, trim them to six ounces every)
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 oz Parmesan cheese, finely shredded
- 4 oz shredded 2% milk Mozzarella cheese
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
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Pre-heat the oven to 400 levels Fahrenheit. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set it apart.
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Place the butter in a skillet and soften over med-high warmth. Add the mushrooms and cook dinner, stirring often, for about 5 minutes. Add ¼ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon pepper, ¼ teaspoon thyme, the parsley, and the minced garlic and stir to mix. Cook dinner for one more 30-60 seconds till the garlic is aromatic. Take away from warmth.
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Place the rooster breasts on a chopping board. Utilizing a pointy knife, slice the breasts from the aspect (making a prime and backside) virtually all over. In a small dish, mix the remaining ½ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon pepper, ¼ teaspoon thyme, and ¼ teaspoon garlic powder and stir collectively. Conserving the rooster breasts folded shut, sprinkle the seasoning over the tops of the breasts and flip over to sprinkle over the bottoms. Flip the breasts again over and open them up.
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With every breast open on the slit, sprinkle the shredded Parmesan and Mozzarella cheeses evenly between the breasts, inserting it on one aspect the open rooster. Prepare the sauteed mushrooms over prime of the cheese layer on every breast. Shut the breasts, folding the highest half again over the mushrooms and cheese and press it down.
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In a big skillet, add the olive oil and produce over medium-high warmth (in case your skillet or sauté pan doesn’t match all 4 breasts, simply cook dinner two breasts at a time with 1 ½ teaspoons of oil every spherical). *Add the stuffed rooster breasts to the pan and cook dinner for about 1 minute till the bottoms are golden. Flip the breasts and cook dinner for one more minute on the opposite aspect. *This step may get messy! If a few of your mushrooms fall out into the pan when transferring, searing, or flipping, don’t fear! You’ll be able to all the time stuff the stray mushrooms again in when you switch the breasts to the baking sheet earlier than placing it within the oven.
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Switch the breasts to the ready baking sheet and stuff any errant mushrooms again in if wanted. Place within the pre-heated oven. Bake for 20-24 minutes till rooster is absolutely cooked via.
WW Factors per (1 stuffed rooster breast) serving: 6 (Factors calculated utilizing the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
Diet Data per (1 stuffed rooster breast) serving:
399 energy, 8 g carbs, 2 g sugars, 17 g fats, 6 g saturated fats, 52 g protein, 1 g fiber, 257 mg sodium (from myfitnesspal.com)
Weight Watchers Factors Plus:
10 per (1 stuffed rooster breast) serving (PP calculated utilizing a Weight Watchers PointsPlus calculator and the vitamin data)