Chicken Cutlets with Fontina and Fresh Blueberry Sauce (5 WW+ Points)

I've been on a bit of a WW cookbook bender lately.  I tend to really like the recipes they put out and lets be honest, if you can make something without having to plug a bunch of ingredients into your tracker it's a win?  Am I right or am I right?  That's why you come here isn't it?

Last night I got the 5 Ingredients in 15 minutes magazine-y cookbook.  You know what I'm talking about right?  Those magazines that they play off as cookbooks by using nicer paper and cutting out the adds and charging you 3 times as much for.  G brought it up from the mail when he took the dog out for her pre bedtime walk and I quickly flipped through and within 3 pages knew what I was making for dinner.  It looked so yummy and 15 mins sounded good to me.  As a quick side note, they lie lie lie, there is not a single recipe in this thing that is only 5 ingredients.  Maybe it's because I only needed to go get 5 of the ingredients at the store?  I don't know, but it's not 5 ingredients.

I got my 5 ingredients that weren't in my pantry and came home wanting to die, lets just say I had stomach issues and leave it at that.  I was not in the mood to cook and enlisted the help of G because I was just out of it.  G is a good little sous chef.  He washes pans I need (why wash them right after you use them when you can wash them right before you use them right? ), grabs ingredients and occasionally stirs things for me, while I chop or prepare other things.  Well, tonight I started the chicken and had G take care of finishing it while I got the blueberry sauce ready.  Only 2 pieces of chicken fit in the pan so once he thought they were done, I stuck them in a warm oven with the cheese on top while we finished the third piece.  Um ya, we pulled them out and they were still a little pink.  ARRRRGH I love G, but he sucks at cooking meat.  He's always trying to kill me.  I would take it as a hint if he didn't try to kill himself too.  What's worse is that he has a nasty run in with e-coli as a child and is terrified of eating things that aren't properly cooked.

So, we pulled the damn cheese off, stuck them back on the pan until I determined they were cooked.  Loaded them back up with cheese and stuck them back in the oven for a few minutes so we could achieve maximum meltage. And we were ready to go.  I served it with some steamed broccoli with salt, pepper and a little bit of red pepper.

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Chicken Cutlets with Fontina and Fresh Blueberry Sauce (5 WW+ Points)
Adapted from Weight Watchers 5 Ingredients in 15 Minutes - Winter 2011


Ingredients (do you count 5 ... me neither)


1 tbsp butter, divided
3/4 of a pound of chicken cutlets (about 4 cutlets .... so says WW, for me it was 3)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/2 cup (2oz) shredded fontina cheese (I just ripped it up, it's soft)
3 tbsp apple juice
1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
1/2 tsp Dijon mustard
1 cup fresh blueberries
1/2 tsp minced fresh thyme


Directions


-Melt 1 tsp of butter in a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat ok I don't use non stick ... do you see non stick pans on Top Chef, no, non stick sucks, I have stainless steel All Clad  pans and I'm not going to use a crap nonstick pan just because WW tells me to, even if that means I had to add some extra virgin olive oil to the mix .. so ya, I used extra oil, no idea how much because G just dumped some in, but I always have points to waste so it was fine.
- Salt and pepper the chicken and cook it in the butter, about 3 minutes per side
- Once cooked, remove chicken from the pan and sprinkle with Fontina cheese and keep warm I put it in a low heat oven
- Combine apple juice, vinegar and mustard in a sauce pan and wisk together.  Put it on the stove and simmer for about 1 minute.  Add the blueberries and thyme and simmer for another 2ish minutes.  Add the other 2 tsp of butter.
- Plate the chicken and spoon blueberry sauce over the chicken



WW says the serving size is approximately 1 chicken cutlet for 5 points.  For me 12 oz of chicken was only 3 cutlets, so that turned it into a 7 point dish plus whatever oil was used.