GREEN CHILE CHICKEN

If you know me than you know that my family and I are from Arizona, and we LOVE Mexican food. We love to cook it, and we especially love to eat it. I can't wait to cook this for them, they are going to LOVE it. We are huge green chile fans. If you don't like nice big chunks of roasted green chiles, sitting on top of a perfectly cooked chicken breast with yummy cheese melting all around it, and sliced black olives barley holding on, then you are missing out. I served this with some spanish rice, and a salad. Courtsey of - For the Love of Cooking.

Green Chile Chicken

Ingredients:
4 chicken breasts
2 eggs
Salt, pepper, garlic powder taste
1 (27 ounce) can whole mild green chilies
1 (2.25 ounce) can of sliced black olives
1 cup of cheddar, shredded
½ cup of Monterey jack or cotjia cheese, shredded
(I just used 1 1/2 cups of the pre-shredded Mexican blend cheese in a bag)
2 – 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise

Directions:
Mix eggs & spices into a bowl. Trim chicken of any fat & slice each breast into 2 chunks. Dip chicken into egg mixture and add to a hot pan sprayed with cooking spray (or olive oil). Cook 3-4 minutes on each side. Remove from pan and place in a 9 x 13 baking dish that has been sprayed with Pam. Cover each chunk of chicken with a green chili. I really love green chilies so I added 2 green chilies per piece of chicken. Mix cheese and mayonnaise in bowl. Spread on top of chicken and green chilies, carefully. (I had to make up a little more cheese mixture because I wanted mine with lots of cheese). Top with black olives. (I added a couple of tooth picks to secure everything, and to keep my foil from making contact with my cheese topping). Cover with foil, and bake at 350 for 25 minutes, uncover and bake for another 10 minutes. Then I turned my broiler on, until the cheese browned a bit. Don’t take your eyes away from your chicken while you are broiling, the cheese will brown very fast. NOTE: My chicken breasts were pretty thick, if yours are fairly thin then you probably won’t need the additional 10 minutes of baking, just move right to the broiling, and you should be good.