Chicken Cordon Blue

Ingredients:

4 chicken breasts (2 lbs.)
4 slices ham
4 slices Monterey Jack cheese
(can use Provolone or Swiss)
2 T. butter
½ c. dry bread crumbs
1 t. garlic salt
1/8 t. ground black pepper

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place butter in a 9x9 baking dish and let it melt in the oven.
2. Mix together dry bread crumbs, garlic salt, and pepper. Place it on a plate or in a bowl.
3. Pound chicken breasts flat with a meat mallet. Sprinkle with a little garlic salt on one side.
4. Divide ham and cheese among chicken breasts, placing ham and cheese atop each. Roll-up the flattened chicken and secure with toothpicks.
5. Roll in melted butter then in the bread crumb mixture.
6. Place in the baking dish, seam side down. Bake for 15 minutes; turn over and continue baking for an additional 15 minutes, or until chicken is no longer pink.