Pizza Stuffed Chicken
Pizza Stuffed Chicken is composed of chicken stuffed with pepperoni and topped with sliced tomatoes and mozzarella cheese. The tomatoes drip their juices onto the chicken as they cook, preventing it from drying out. Both the pepperoni and the cheese crisp up during cooking to take this chicken to the next level!(388 calories - 5g carbs - 22g fat - 47g protein)
Servings: 1 person
Calories: 388kcal
Equipment
- Baking Sheet / Sheet Pan
- Cutting board
- Serrated Knife
Ingredients
- 6 oz boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 4 slices sandwich style pepperoni
- 3/4 vine ripe tomato sliced sandwich style (easier to slice with serrated knife!)
- 1 oz shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1/4 tsp italian seasoning
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425° F.
- Salt and pepper chicken breast.
- Make an incision along the side of each breast. (The incision should stretch across the length of the chicken. Cut almost all the way through without cutting the chicken in half to form a pocket for the stuffing.)
- Fold each piece of pepperoni in half and insert all four, overlapping, inside the chicken breast. (There should be a little bit of pepperoni sticking outside the piece of chicken that will crisp up during cooking)
- On top of the chicken, lay four slices of tomato (also overlapping).
- Drizzle the mozzarella cheese on top of the breast. (Add in the beginning for a golden, crispier cheese on top. Add at the last 5 minutes of cooking for meltier cheese.)
- Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until the inside of the chicken is no longer pink and is fully cooked through.