If you’re looking for an easy to make, arthritis friendly recipe, you’ve found it. This is a very good and healthy recipe.

Greek-Stuffed Chicken Breasts Stuffed with Goat Cheese, Rosemary, and Thyme
Yields 4 Servings

4 medium breasts or 2 extra-large breasts

4 small to medium boneless, skinless chicken breasts or 2 large ones (butterflied)
4 T. olive oil to coat breasts
3 tsp. Covender’s all-purpose Greek seasoning (for coating of breasts)

Goat cheese stuffing:

4 oz. goat cheese (soft)
1 ½ tsp. rosemary
½ tsp. thyme
¼ tsp. fresh ground pepper
1/8 tsp. kosher salt
¼ tsp. garlic powder

Preheat oven to 375°F. Line a medium baking sheet with foil and spray with nonstick cooking spray and set aside. Wash, pat dry, and filet chicken breasts. Set to the side. To make the stuffing, place goat cheese, rosemary, thyme, pepper, salt, and garlic powder into a small bowl. Using a fork, thoroughly mix all the ingredients together. We are now ready to stuff the breasts. First, evenly divide the stuffing into 2 or 4 portions, depending on how many breasts you are using. Using your hands, form each portion of cheese into a small log, open a breast, place stuffing in, and simply fold breast back over. Lightly press together. Rub each breast with softened butter and liberally sprinkle about 1 tsp. per breast with Greek seasoning. Use more if needed. Cover with foil and bake for 20 minutes, then uncover and continue cooking for another 20 minutes or until meat reaches 180 degrees.

Recipe by: Melinda Winner

Melinda’s Bio: Melinda Winner is a very talented chef and cookbook author that has devoted her life to helping the physically challenged. She herself suffers from five forms of arthritis and a birth injury. One of the forms of arthritis she suffers from is rheumatoid arthritis. This particular form causes severe pain as well as it is crippling. Melinda does not define her life by her disease as a matter of fact she has used this disease to help millions in their battle against arthritis. Melinda writes a daily blog on blog spot. She also has two completed books, Yankee Cooking with Southern Charm and A Complete Illustrated Guide to Cooking with Arthritis.

She has won many national recipe contests and competed on the Food Network’s Ultimate Recipe Showdown in 2008. This woman has made it her life’s work to help others despite her own diversities. Before Melinda’s illness she wore many hats. She was an art director in the motion picture industry, a celebrity interviewer, and ran a rescue for horses. Melinda has three children which two she adopted, she also has five grandchildren. Melinda moved to Gulfport Mississippi to help in the rebuilding after hurricane Katrina slammed the gulf coast. She volunteered for the Red Cross. Melinda also took the public speaking class at camp Mash in 2008 for the National Arthritis Foundation and signed on to be an ambassador for her congressional district in Mississippi. Melinda was born 1961 in Pittsburgh PA. the daughter of Thomas Painter and Dorothy Lowe Painter.