What would yous brand with Sargento® Chef Blends™ Shredded half dozen Cheese Italian cheese, boneless skinless chicken breasts, cherry bell peppers, as well as Greek yogurt? Challenge yourself amongst the "Chopped At Home" challenger as well as see! Thank yous to Sargento for giving me the chance to rising to the "Chopped At Home" challenge, as well as sponsoring creation of my Chopped-inspired dish featuring Sargento shredded cheese Cheese-Stuffed Chicken Meatballs amongst Roasted Red Pepper Dipping Sauce.
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I'm certain most of us are familiar amongst the cooking show, "Chopped." Oh, how I love, love, beloved to sentry that show! It's ane of my all-time favorites, combining my beloved of challenger shows amongst my beloved of cooking. I mean, what's non to love? Watching cooking professionals challenge themselves to create wonderful dishes amongst a crazy combination of ingredients, all spell nether the pressure level of a very limited sum of time? I'm e'er as well as hence impressed as well as amazed amongst what they come upwards up with.
But amongst that pressure level of the clock?? Oh, there's absolutely no way I could practise that. Cooking, I love. Cooking amongst serious fourth dimension pressure? Not as well as hence much.
And that's why I was as well as hence excited to endure asked to rising to the Sargento "Chopped At Home" challenge ... I got to accept all the fun of creating a Chopped-style dish amongst mystery-basket ingredients ... without the fourth dimension pressure.
That's right! Simply past times getting creative inwards the kitchen, coming upwards amongst your best Chopped-inspired dish featuring Sargento shredded cheese as well as entering your dish inwards the "Chopped at Home" contest, yous could win $10,000.
Are yous ready to encounter your handbasket ingredients?
Oh, of course of written report yous are!
Your {and my} Chopped-inspired dish must comprise ... {being written inwards my best Ted Allen voice, of course} ...
... Sargento® Chef Blends™ Shredded half dozen Cheese Italian cheese ...
... boneless skinless chicken breasts ...
... cherry bell peppers ...
... as well as ...
... Greek yogurt.
{End Ted Allen voice.}
What a swell basket! No candied octopus. No mashed Irish Gaelic patato candy. Or 100-year-old eggs. Or ... countless other ingredients I would accept no thought what to practise with.
I forthwith thought of the Chopped judging words ... taste, creativity, as well as presentation. And thought of the countless times I've heard the Chopped judges say, "Yes, it was proficient ... but did she actually transform the ingredients?"
Oh, the pressure!!
Not actually ... simply the pure fun of coming upwards amongst a tasty, creative dish.
I decided to teach amongst Cheese-Stuffed Chicken Meatballs amongst Roasted Red Pepper Sauce for dipping. Perfect for the appetizer round, don't yous think? Of course, toss it all amongst a picayune pasta, as well as it could easily transform for the entree round, too. {Dessert round? Probably non as well as hence much.}
I started past times mixing upwards a picayune meatball filling ... Sargento Chef Blends™ Shredded half dozen Cheese Italian cheese combined amongst some Greek yogurt to shape a moldable cheese mixture.
Then I pose down the chicken inwards a nutrient processor, seasoned it, as well as formed the mixture into cheese-stuffed chicken meatballs.
With it's amazing blend of flavors ... featuring Mozzarella, Provolone, Parmesan, Fontina, Romano, as well as aged Asiago cheeses, ... the seize amongst teeth of Sargento Chef Blends™ Shredded half dozen Cheese Italian within each meatball was a wonderful cheesy treat!
The dipping sauce complimented the cheese-stuffed meatballs beautifully. Just equally I had crossed my fingers it would planned.
What practise you think? Did I practise okay?
And what would you make?? Go motion into it inwards the "Chopped at Home" contest! Maybe you'll be the ane to win $10,000!
Cheese-Stuffed Chicken Meatballs
Source: A Tracey creation
Ingredients
Meatball Mixture:
- 1 lb. boneless, skinless chicken breasts*
- 1 egg
- 1/4 c. Panko breadcrumbs
- 1/2 tsp. dried basil
- 1/2 tsp. dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. black pepper
- 1/2 of a medium-sized onion, grated
- 1 garlic clove, minced
Cheese Filling:
- 1 1/4 c. Sargento Chef Blends™ Shredded half dozen Cheese Italian
- 1 to ii T. Greek yogurt
- pinch salt
Directions
- PREPARE THE MEATBALL MIXTURE: Combine all meatball mixture ingredients inwards a large mixing bowl. Mix amongst a spoon or your hands until good combined, but practise non over cause equally over treatment volition crusade the meatballs to endure tough.
- PREPARE THE CHEESE FILLING: In a small-scale mixing bowl, mix together shredded cheese, 1 tablespoon Greek yogurt, as well as salt. Add additional tablespoon of Greek yogurt, if needed, to convey the cheese together into a moldable paste.
- PREPARE MEATBALLS: Spray a rimmed baking pan amongst non-stick cooking spray. Divide the meatball mixture into twenty equal parts. Flatten ane slice inwards the palm of your hand. Place nearly a teaspoon of cheese filling inwards the pump as well as roll the meat mixture unopen to the filling, sealing the cheese inwards the center. Roll a flake betwixt your palms to shape into a ball. Place on prepared baking pan. Repeat to shape remaining meatballs.
- Bake at 400 degrees for xv - xviii minutes, or until cooked through.
- Serve amongst Roasted Red Pepper Dipping Sauce.
Makes twenty meatballs.
* 1 lb. pose down chicken may endure substituted.
Roasted Red Pepper Dipping Sauce
Source: A Tracey creation
Ingredients
- 2 large cherry bell peppers
- 1 c. Greek yogurt
- 2 tsp. dried basil
- 1 T. fresh lemon juice
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. black pepper
Directions
- Roast peppers: Heat 1 tablespoon petroleum inwards a saute pan over medium-high heat. Place whole peppers inwards the pan as well as roast, turning every infinitesimal or so, until charred on all sides, nearly 10 - xv minutes. {Or, rub exterior of peppers amongst petroleum as well as roast inwards a 400 marker oven for nearly xv - twenty minutes.} Place hot peppers inwards a zip-top baggie, seal, as well as allow peppers cool for a few minutes {the steam formed inwards the handbag helps the skins come upwards off to a greater extent than easily}.
- When cool plenty to handle, purpose your hands to peel the charred skins off the peppers. Cut peeled peppers inwards one-half as well as withdraw seeds as well as ribs.
- Place peppers, basil, lemon juice, salt, as well as dark pepper inwards a nutrient processor; procedure until peppers are good chopped, nearly 10 to twenty seconds.
- Add Greek yogurt; pulse until good combined.
Enjoy!
Available inwards xxx versatile varieties, unique blends as well as distinct cuts, Sargento Shredded Cheese is e'er cutting from blocks of 100% real, natural cheese. For to a greater extent than inspiration, banking concern stand upwards for out the Sargento Pinterest page or see Sargento.com for to a greater extent than information. The Chopped at Home Challenge gives viewers a hazard to create their best recipe using the selected handbasket ingredients, including Sargento Shredded Cheese, for a hazard to win $10,000!
This is a sponsored conversation written past times me on behalf of Sargento®. The opinions as well as text are all mine.
This is a sponsored conversation written past times me on behalf of Sargento®. The opinions as well as text are all mine.
