Italian Recipe ⤏ Easy Smothered Chicken Breasts

After reading this recipe here, it sounded so good that I had to put my personal touches to it. I'm not particularly fond of chicken breasts unless they're flattened to a pulp and delicately browned after being dredged in flour. After that I followed the original recipe except I added crushed red peppers and Italian seasoning. I served this with fettuccine alfredo and roasted asparagus on the side. Delizioso!

Ingredients

• ½ cup all-purpose flour
• ¼ cup seasoned bread crumbs
• 2 teaspoons garlic salt
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 4 (6 ounce) skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, pounded thin
• 8 bacon strips
• 1 onion, sliced
• ¼ teaspoon lemon-pepper seasoning
• ¼ teaspoon Italian seasoning
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ⅓ teaspoon red pepper flakes, or more to taste
• ¼ cup packed brown sugar
• ½ cup shredded Colby-Monterey Jack cheese

Cooking Directions

1. Mix flour, bread crumbs, garlic salt, and black pepper together in a bowl. Coat each chicken breast with flour mixture.
2. Place bacon in a large skillet and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Remove bacon with a slotted spoon, reserving bacon drippings; drain bacon on paper towels.
3. Cook and stir coated chicken breasts in the bacon drippings until chicken is no longer pink in the center and juices run clear, about 5 minutes per side; remove and keep warm.
4. Cook and stir onion, lemon-pepper seasoning, Italian seasoning, salt, red pepper flakes, and brown sugar in the same skillet until onion is golden brown, 10 to 15 minutes.
5. Set oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source and preheat the oven's broiler.
6. Arrange chicken breasts on a baking sheet; top each breast with 2 bacon slices. Top with caramelized onion and Colby-Monterey Jack cheese.
7. Broil chicken breasts until cheese is melted and bubbling, 1 to 3 minutes.

Nutrition Facts

• calories663.8
• carbohydrateContent34.5 g
• cholesterolContent151.9 mg
• fatContent35.7 g
• fiberContent1.4 g
• proteinContent48.7 g
• saturatedFatContent13.6 g
• sodiumContent1823.4 mg
• sugarContent15 g