Primal Chicken Cordon Bleu

A paleo-style recipe for chicken cordon bleu uses cut-up chicken pieces. If you aren't sure how to do this, buy already cut-up birds or ask your butcher to do it for you.

• Preparation Time: 20 mins
• Cooking Time: 60 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins
• Calories: 687 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon butter
• 6 slices ham
• 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
• 2 (3 1/2) pound whole chickens
• ¼ cup almond meal
• 6 slices Swiss cheese (Optional)

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish with butter.

Step 2

Cut chickens into wings, drumsticks, thighs, and breast portions. Split breasts down the middle and debone the 4 breast halves. Pound breasts to about 1/4-inch thickness. Place chicken drumsticks, thighs, and wings into prepared baking dish in a single layer, placing chicken pieces as close together as possible. Layer ham, then Swiss cheese over the chicken legs, thighs, and wings. Lay the breasts on top.

Step 3

Mix together almond meal and olive oil in a bowl until crumbly. Sprinkle mixture over top of breasts.

Step 4

Bake in oven until a thermometer reads 165 degrees F (75 degrees C) in the center of the the thickest part of a thigh, about 1 hour.