Recipe: Perfect Chicken Courdon Bleu Pasta Bake

Chicken Courdon Bleu Pasta Bake. I took the dish for another flavorful spin and added a bit of smoky bacon and toasted bread crumbs. —Nikki Barton, Providence, Utah. This Chicken Cordon Bleu Bake in a creamy Swiss cheese sauce is the perfect comfort food. A delicious French classic, chicken cordon bleu is made of chicken breasts stuffed with ham and Swiss cheese.

And even though Chicken Cordon Bleu is not a difficult recipe to master by any means, I just don't have the want or will to stand stuffing chicken breasts before breading and cooking them. I wanted all the same flavours but in an easy, no-fuss way and that's when I decided to do a pasta bake. It's creamy pasta, melty swiss cheese, chicken, and ham all baked together and topped with homemade breadcrumbs. you can have Chicken Courdon Bleu Pasta Bake using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chicken Courdon Bleu Pasta Bake

1. Prepare 1 1/2 lb of Penne.
2. It's 2 cup of heavy cream.
3. You need 8 oz of cream cheese.
4. Prepare 1 lb of Swiss Cheese, cut into chunks.
5. Prepare 7 slice of Cooked Bacon.
6. You need 2 of chicken breasts, cooked & cut into chunks.
7. You need 1 of ham steak.
8. You need 1 of Bread Crumbs.

Don't let all this diet talk deter you from making this dish! My Chicken Cordon Bleu Pasta Bake is a total winner! It's creamy pasta, melty swiss cheese, chicken, and ham. Chicken Cordon Bleu is usually stuffed with ham and Swiss cheese, but you can use any cheese your family likes such as mozzarella or Gruyere.

Chicken Courdon Bleu Pasta Bake step by step

1. Cook pasta according to directions and strain..
2. Heat the cream cheese in a sauce pan over medium heat unil melted. Pour in heavy cream and stir until combined. Stir in the swiss cheese until completely melted..
3. Pour the chicken, ham and cheese mixture into the pasta, covering the pasta completely..
4. Pour the pasta mixture into a casserole dish. Top with bacon and bread crumbs and bake in the oven at 350° until the cheese is bubbly..

For a quicker version, you may also like this Skillet Chicken Cordon Bleu which doesn't require rolling or breading. When I was a kid, my mom took culinary. We're always trying to create simpler versions of our favorite dishes, and our most recent adventure was with Chicken Cordon Bleu. We deconstructed the classic dish into a rich and creamy pasta bake that allows us to enjoy the decadent flavors of the original without the hassle! In a large bowl, mix together chicken, egg, breadcrumbs, parmesan, parsley, garlic and salt and pepper.