Chicken & Bacon Rollups for Christmas

For Christmas Eve, I chose to cook this dish for the first time, Chicken & Bacon Rollups.  Sounds easy, but it took me a while to finish this dish.  But the results are quite impressive because everybody loved it.

Chicken & Bacon Rollups

I saw this recipe from Pinterest and did my version of it with the ingredients that are affordable and available in the grocery.  Also instead of cooking it for 8 hours as the original recipe stated, I cooked it for 45 minutes instead. That is minus the preparation and searing of the meat.

So here's the recipe for the Chicken & Bacon Rollups:

10 bacon slices
10 boneless and skinless chicken breasts
garlic, crushed
onions, diced
1 pack Knorr Cream of Mushroom Soup, yes soup!
1 pack Alaska Crema
1 small can button mushrooms, pieces and stems
salt and pepper to taste
water

1.  Season chicken breasts with salt and pepper.  Wrap bacon around the chicken breasts.
2.  Put oil on a pan and sear the bacon & chicken roll until slightly brown.  Set aside.

seared chicken & bacon 

3.  On the same pan, saute garlic, onions and mushrooms.
4.  Meanwhile, dissolve the Cream of Mushroom soup in 1 cup of water.  Add to the pan and let simmer. Stir occassionally.
5.  Add Alaska Crema and mix well.
6.  Transfer the mixture to a bigger caserole.  Put the chicken & bacon rolls and make sure that it is fully immersed in the sauce.  Add a little water.
7.  Let it cook for 45 minutes.  Serve and enjoy while hot.

Leftover sauce from this dish can also be used as pasta sauce.  Just cook up some ham and pasta and toss everything with the sauce in a pan!

ham & leftover sauce pasta

the cook