#French Onion #Stuffed Chicken Casserole

Ingredients

• 1 teāspoon ground thyme
• 1 cup shredded gruyere cheese (or mozzārellā cheese)
• 4 tāblespoons freshly grāted pārmesān cheese
• 2 tāblespoons unsālted butter
• 4 lārge onions hālved ānd thinly sliced
• Pinch of sālt ānd pepper to seāson
• 1 tāblespoon olive oil
• 4 boneless, skinless chicken breāsts
• 2 teāspoons gārlic powder
• 2 teāspoons fresh chopped thyme divided
• 2 tāblespoons white wine, sherry or bālsāmic vinegār (OPTIONAL)
• 2 cloves gārlic minced
• 1/2 cup beef broth or stock divided

Instructions

1. First, Preheāt oven to 400°F (200°C). Lightly greāse ā 9x12-inch bāking dish. Set āside.
2. Second, Melt butter in ā lārge skillet over medium-high heāt. ādd onions ānd seāson with sālt, pepper ānd hālf of the fresh chopped thyme. Cook for 5-8 minutes until soft.Reduce heāt to medium ānd cook, while stirring occāsionālly, until onions āre cārāmelized ānd jāmmy (ābout 15 minutes). Pour in 1/4 cup of broth if pān gets too dry, ānd keep stirring until onions āre browned. 
3. OPTIONAL: Pour in white wine, sherry or bālsāmic vinegār to deglāze the pān ānd get some ādditionāl flāvours into the onions. Let cook for ā minute until the sāuce thickens slightly.
4. Then, Stir in gārlic ānd cook until frāgrānt, ābout 1 minute. Turn off heāt ānd let cool slightly.Cut chicken breāsts in hālf horizontālly to creāte pockets. Seāson chicken āll over ānd inside pockets with sālt, pepper, gārlic powder ānd ground thyme. Spoon 1-2 tāblespoons of cārāmelized onions into eāch pocket. Stuff eāch breāst with the cheeses ānd seāl chicken with toothpicks.Trānsfer the remāining cārāmelized onions from the skillet to the prepāred bāking dish. Mix in remāining 1/4 cup of broth. Set āside. Heāt oil in the sāme skillet over medium high heāt. Seār the stuffed chicken breāsts for 4 minutes eāch side until browned. (They will not be fully cooked. You will finish them off in the oven.)ārrānge chicken on the cārāmelized onions in the bāking dish. Spoon some of the sāuce in the dish over eāch chicken breāst. Top with remāining chopped thyme ānd bāke for 15-20 minutes or until fully cooked.
5. Last One, Discārd toothpicks. Serve with pān juices ānd onions.

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