This is a recipe for an elegant and easy chicken dish for entertaining. Baked Chicken Cordon Bleu with Apricot Brandy Sauce is fit for royalty.
If you’re a regular reader, you’ll remember that before Christmas I went to high tea at Cherokee Castle and Ranch. What a lovely experience and I came home with a great little cookbook written by Tweet Kimball’s Chef and Butler. Tweet was Colorado’s First Lady in cattle ranching, successfully introducing Santa Gertrudis Cattle to Colorado.
She loved to entertain and she happened to live in the stately Cherokee Castle just a few miles south of what is now Highlands Ranch. You can read all about the property in my first post about the castle and our tour of the castle. I featured her recipe for Deviled Ham Canape Appetizer. High society locals were regularly invited to join her for dinner with world famous people like Winthrop Rockefeller and Princess Anne. I can even remember the news coverage when Princess Anne came to town.
My latest adventure in cooking from this Colorado cookbook, which I’ve come to adore, is this recipe for Chicken Cordon Bleu with Apricot Brandy Sauce.
What an outstanding treat this is. And such an easy recipe for dinner party entertaining.
Especially if you have a good source for pre-made Chicken Courdon Bleu. Which I do. My local specialty and meat market, Tony’s Market on Dry Creek always has it, ready to bake. If you’re going to make it at home I would always trust Tyler Florence and his recipe, or even Taste of Home always seems to a reliable source.
An easy sauce takes this classic Swiss recipe to a new level. On the stove top, simply simmer some:
- Good Quality Apricot Preserves
- Brandy
- butter
- Lime Juice
That’s all it takes for the big wow factor. The flavors compliment each other so well. The sweet, tangy, boozy apricot sauce is a nice partner for the salty ham, cheese and chicken. And how fun to tell your dinner guests that Tweet Kimball served this for Princess Anne.
With a simple side dish of sauteed asparagus with lemon, we thought this was a very nice meal. Let’s take a look:
Recipe for Baked Chicken Cordon Bleu with Apricot Brandy Sauce
I hope you give this chicken cordon bleu recipe a try, and if you do, please come back and give the recipe a rating and leave a comment about your experience with the recipe.
And if you have a favorite recipe using apricot preserves, let me know, I’d love to give it a try.
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Chicken Cordon Bleu with Apricot Brandy Sauce
Ingredients
- 8 bundles Prepared Chicken Cordon Bleu Bundles
- 1 small jar Apricot Preserves
- 6 Tablespoons butter
- 1/3 cup brandy regular, peach or apricot flavored
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
Instructions
- Cook Chicken Cordon Bleu according to instructions.
- Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, melt butter and the rest of the ingredients. Cook until hot and well mixed.
- Drizzle the cooked cordon bleu’s with the hot apricot brandy sauce and serve immediately.
Nutrition
Chicken Cordon Bleu With Apricot Brandy Sauce …It’s what’s for Dinner.
That apricot sauce puts one of my favorites over the top! Yum!
I hope you give it a try. Let me know what you think.
An oldie and goodie! Looks like retirement is cooking up some great food!
Thanks Abbe – and you are very correct about that. 🙂
Absolutely delicious recipe, love that apricot brandy sauce ♥
Thank you so much Doreen.
This needs to be on my menu this week! Nettie
Let me know what you think. It’s my new “go to” for entertaining. Even if it’s just entertaining us. 🙂
Just pass me a plate full and a fork. Looks and sounds good.
🙂 Thanks Christine.
The mountains of Colorado are among the most beautiful places. This Chicken Cordon Blue has me drooling. That amazing sauce with the saltiness of the ham sounds amazing.
I love Colorado Julie. Let me know if you make this recipe and what you think.
Looks and sounds delicious! (even to us common folk!) 😉
Us common folk thought it was delicious! 🙂
That sauce looks so good! I am so drooling over those pics!
Thank you Prasanna
I love this new twist on Chicken Cordon Bleau…looks so good!
Thanks Sandi
Oh wow, this does sound amazing, never had apricot sauce but really want to try now:-)
Let me know what you think about the recipe Camilla.
this really sounds like a gourmet recipe that is so doable for home. What a great dish for entertaining
Thank you Dahn. It’ really a very nice recipe for entertaining.
Well, you had me at brandy! That sauce looks like something I could happily slurp up on a daily basis! And I always have those ingredients on hand. BTW, I just read that Princess Anne’s butler wears jeans on the job.
Well good for Princess Anne’s Butler – maybe he learned that when he was here in Colorado. 😉
Oh my goodness that sauce sounds incredible and the chicken looks wonderfully moist. A real treat and perfect for entertaining! Have a lovely weekend!
Thank you so much Tricia. We really enjoyed this recipe.
What a gorgeous meal, the apricot sauce sounds amazing.
Thank you Cheri – we sure liked it.
I remember the first time I had Veal Cordon Bleu — totally blown away with the flavor and the presentation. That was a LONG time ago, back in the days when canned green peas still ruled in most kitchens. Anyway, love the sauce. And I do happen to have a source of ready-made chicken cordon bleu, so I’m all set!
Boy, if you have a source for quality pre-made, I hope you give this one a try. And of course let me know what you thought.
Wow, talk about easy entertaining…this is it.
Thanks Karen – I agree.
looks very good and one of the advantages of the big city is places like Tony’s. Don’t know how far we would have to go to get fresh made Cordon Bleu like this
This sauce is worth making Chicken Cordon Bleu from scratch. 🙂
Just give me a big old jar of that sauce, PLEASE!
Wouldn’t that sauce be good for many salty meat dishes? 🙂