Butterfly Chicken With Cheddar Gratin

When you have chicken breast and cheese, there's nothing better than making the butterfly chicken with cheddar gratin.

Materials:

• Chicken breast
• Cheddar cheese
• Parmesan cheese
• basil leaves
• garlic
• onion/shallot
• thymes, black pepper and oregano
• vegetable oil and butter

Step 1: Cutting and Seasoning

• Preheat oven to 375F
• Separate the fillet and then slice chicken breast 80% of the way through into butterfly shape
• Rub in thyme, black pepper, and oregano
• add a bit of salt
• finely dice shallot
• crush 2 cloves of garlic

Step 2: Preparing the Gratin

• Grate cheddar and parmsesan together
• mix in basil leave flakes

Step 3: Cooking the Chicken

In a hot pan:

• add 2 tbsp of oil
• saute the garlic until brown, then remove from pan
• add in the chicken meat and lightly brown on both sides, then remove from pan

Step 4: Saute the Shallot

In the same pan:

• melt 2 tbsp of butter
• saute the shallot well
• remove the shallot from pan
• scrape away debris in the pan

Step 5: Roasting

• Scoop shallot over chicken meat
• add generous amounts of gratin mix on top
• place into the oven for 5 minutes

Step 6: Serve and Enjoy

• Carefully remove chicken from pan and transfer to a plate
• dash in some fresh basil leave flakes and serve