Oven-Baked Muenster Chicken

Muenster Chicken – Oven-baked chicken breasts are dredged in bread crumbs, covered with creamy Muenster cheese and infused with a subtle hint of white wine!

Growing up in Wisconsin you’ll find that cheese is a staple ingredient to almost every recipe prepared around here. Even if I didn’t live in the Midwest, I have a sneaky suspicion cheese would actually find me. Believe it or not, a couple weeks ago I tasted a kind of cheese I had never tasted before.

I’m not sure why I had never tasted it before but I think it had something to do with the name. Muenster. I think the name reminded me of The Munsters. Do you remember that show? Regardless, there was just something about the name that turned me off a bit, so I just had never tried it.

I was at a family get-together, and we were all sitting around the table eating off of a cheese plate. I picked up a piece of what I didn’t know at the time was Muenster cheese, and it turned my world upside down. This cheese was the most creamy and mild cheese I had ever tasted.

I recently posted something on my personal Facebook page about this being the best cheese ever, and my dear cousin Sue commented that she had a recipe for Oven-Baked Muenster Chicken. No way. I asked her to send it over. She did – and the rest is history.

To start out, my cousin Sue and her husband Bob are wonderful cooks and they love to travel, so they have the opportunity to try so many wonderful dishes. I was so excited to try out this recipe from her.

These oven-baked chicken breasts are dredged in bread crumbs, covered with creamy Muenster cheese and infused with a subtle hint of white wine. Divine.

I’m going to apologize up front for the photos. I made this chicken in the evening and I was fighting for natural light. The photos took me back about a year ago when I had first started blogging {shudder}. I considered not even posting this, but because the recipe is so delicious, I just had to share and couldn’t wait for “the next time.” Because, believe me, there will be a next time. Sue mentioned it has become one of their go-to recipes in their house. It will become a go-to recipe in ours, too. For sure.

So, I mentioned I made two batches. I prepared the chicken in two different pans. For one batch I used a 9×13 foil-lined baking pan, and for the other, I used my ridged stoneware baking pan. The cheese over the chicken in the foil-lined baking pan actually browned nicely, whereas it just looked “melted” in the other pan. You are welcome for the experiment. 🙂 All of the chicken breasts were still super tasty, but for a nicer browned cheese effect, I recommend using a foil-lined baking pan. 

I was a bit leery about adding the white wine to the bottom of the pan because I imagined the bread crumbs and bottom of the chicken getting soggy. But. . .IT DIDN’T. The wine just infused the chicken and the cheese melted around each breast, perfectly.

What a simple, delicious recipe. SO GOOD. Thanks so much, Sue, for a fantastic oven-baked chicken recipe, perfect for a busy weeknight or lazy weekend meal.

Oven-Baked Muenster Chicken

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Oven-baked chicken breasts dredged in bread crumbs, covered with creamy Muenster cheese and infused with a subtle hint of white wine. Divine.

• Yield: 4 1x

Ingredients

• 3–4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts
• 6–8 slices of Muenster cheese
• Plain or seasoned bread crumbs
• 1/4 c. dry white wine
• Salt and pepper, to taste

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Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Wash and pat chicken breasts dry.
3. Salt and pepper chicken.
4. Dredge both sides of the chicken in bread crumbs.
5. Place in greased, foil-lined pan.
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 16 minutes.
7. Remove from oven and pour wine in the bottom of the baking pan.
8. Place two slices of cheese over each chicken breast.
9. Return to oven and bake an additional 16 minutes, or until done.