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Extremely tasty, warm, and comforting recipe for Cheese Stuffed Dinner Rolls. You will love these soft, garlicky, and cheesy bread bombs.

If you love soft dinner rolls then you will adore these beauties with cheese, brushed with butter, garlic and herbs.

From time to time my kids would request the addition of pepperoni or make them like pizza rolls.

What can I say? I just love making them happy.

Basically, this is my all-purpose dough. I have tested so many baked goodies using this dough that I can’t even tell you.

We are talking about savory rolls, pizza, pizza rolls, different types of twist bread, and so forth.

As we are all aware that I am not some kind of amazing cake baker, but when it comes to baked goodies I fully stand by my recipes made with dough. Proudly!

Well, my husband and daughter devoured this tray of rolls while watching football. I mean those two love anything carbolicious as well as with cheese.

They kept dipping in the delicious marinara sauce. While I almost cried watching them, because following a low-carb lifestyle sometimes sucks.

Especially when you not only love carbs but make them all the freaking time.

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However, in my opinion, it is all in moderation as well as balance.

Anyhow, I have been making these for years. Also, I enjoyed them many times myself so that’s why I fully recommend making these fluffy rolls.

Hey, if you get inspired and make these quick and easy Cheese Stuffed Dinner Rolls, please tag me on Instagram.

@sandraseasycooking with hashtag #sandraseasycooking. I would love to see all your tasty creations. Thank you so much in advance!

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DUTCH OVEN BREAD: BREAD FOR BEGINNERS

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Yield: Makes around 8 to 16

Cheese Stuffed Dinner Rolls

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Tasty, warm and easy recipe for Cheese Stuffed Dinner Rolls

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 25 minutes

Additional WAITING Time 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 35 minutes

Ingredients

• 5 cups all-purpose flour, reserve some for dusting
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 pack active dry yeast
• 1/2 tablespoon sugar
• 1 1/2 cup of whole milk
• 2 tablespoons melted unsalted butter
• 1 pack mozzarella string cheese cut into 2-inch cylinders
• 1/2 package cream cheese, room temperature
• 1/4 cup garlic and herb butter for brushing
• Or use unsalted butter with 1 teaspoon garlic powder + 1 tablespoon dried parsley

Instructions

1. In the bowl of a stand mixer combine the flour and salt, mix it, then add dried yeast and sugar.
2. Add melted butter, and warm to touch milk. Start kneading at medium speed until the dough is formed and pulling away from the side of the bowl.
3. Cover and allow the dough to rise for about 60 minutes, but you can let it rise for up to 3 hours.
4. Remove the dough from the bowl and place it on a countertop or any work area such as a clean cutting board.
5. Divide the dough in half then into quarters. Divide each quarter into 8 equal size balls. (or you can divide those 8 into half and make smaller rolls, which would make 16).
6. Stretch each bowl and add a generous amount of room temperature cream cheese and about 1/2 stick of sliced string cheese.
7. Pull the dough around the cheese to form a ball then pinch the dough tightly so that the cheese doesn’t melt out during baking. 
8. Place the rolls on a parchment-lined baking pan or non-stick pan and make sure they are about 1/2 inch apart. Cover and let rise for about 30 additional minutes. Brush with melted garlic and herbs butter, or you could make your own (step 10.)
9. Bake in a preheated 375-degree oven for 20-25 minutes or until golden.
10. Melt more garlic and herb butter, or you may add one teaspoon of garlic powder, 1 tablespoon of dried parsley to melted unsalted butter and brush on these golden rolls as soon as they are out of the oven.
11. If you are planning to serve them later, just reheat it for 30 seconds and serve.

Notes

You may use other cheese such as Mild Cheddar, Cheese Cubes, Swiss, Provolone, etc.

You do not have to use cream cheese, but my family loves it so much so that's why I add to my rolls.

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Chicken Marsala is an Italian-American dish made from chicken fillets or cutlets, mushrooms, garlic or onions, and Marsala wine.

It is an easy yet extremely delicious way to prepare the chicken with incredibly creamy mushroom sauce.

My family and I absolutely adore this dish. Well, what’s not to like. Am I right or am I right?

It is one of those dishes that you can literally eat it with a slice of bread and mop all the goodness or over potatoes, pasta or perhaps rice.

Since we are mostly following low carb diet, as well as gluten-free I served it with low carb wraps and used GF flour to make these.

However, in the recipe, you will find a classic recipe. Yes, you can modify it to support your lifestyle just like I did to support mine.

So, since I fully started cooking, 21 years ago, I made this recipe probably every other week.

I got to tell you that I am a mushroom lover which is the best part of this dish. Needless to say, I could eat them daily.

When I was still eating potatoes regularly, and not only from time to time on my cheat days, I would serve Chicken Marsala over mashed potatoes. Oh, boy! It is so good!

I must admit that if I choose one meal as my last one that would be exactly it; mashed potatoes, creamy mushroom sauce and chicken.

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With that being said, I really love many dishes so I cannot be certain that I can pick that one and not anything else.

I could probably fit three dining room tables with my favourite dishes to be my last meal. Haha!

A joke on the side, I really hope you make this one. I know it is a well-known recipe, and many of you probably already made it before.

However, let me gently remind you to make it again.

On the other side, if you have never made this one before, grab your skillet and start making. You won’t be sorry!

It is seriously the most comforting dish ever, and freaking easy as well as delicious.

Also, you could use pork or beef for this recipe, although the cooking time will be different.

Hey, if you get inspired and make this tasty Easy Chicken Marsala, please tag me on Instagram.

@sandraseasycooking with hashtag #sandraseasycooking. Thank you so much in advance!

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INDIVIDUAL CHICKEN POT PIES

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Yield: Serves 4

Easy Chicken Marsala

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Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Ingredients

Chicken:

• 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts halves, sliced horizontally in half to make 8 cutlets.
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter divided

Marsala Sauce:

• 2 tablespoons unsalted
• 1 small onion, diced
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 pound fresh mushrooms, sliced
• 1⁄4 cup dry marsala wine
• 1 cup chicken stock
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• Generous pinch of salt and ground black pepper, or to taste
• 1 tablespoon flour or any other thickening agent + water
• 1 tablespoon dried parsley or freshly chopped

Instructions

Chicken:

1. Cut each chicken half in half horizontally. Season it with some salt and pepper on both sides and garlic powder.
2. Heat oil and butter in a large frying pan or a skillet over medium-high heat. Cook the chicken cutlets until golden-brown on both sides, about 2 to 3 minutes per side. If your skillet/pan is smaller then cook the chicken in batches so the pan is not overcrowded.
3. Transfer to a platter and cover with a lid or aluminium foil until ready to use.

Mushroom sauce:

1. In the same large frying pan or a skillet with grease leftover from the chicken, add more butter.
2. When the butter has melted add onion and garlic and stir well, then add sliced mushrooms and cook for a couple of minutes until browned.
3. Scrap any of the leftover chicken bits off the bottom of the pan while mixing it.
4. Pour in the dry marsala wine and the broth. Simmer until reduced by half and starting to thicken, about 10 minutes on low temperature.
5. Pour in the cream stir to combine.
6. Take 2 tablespoons of flour or any other thicker such as cornstarch and mix with 4 tablespoons of water. Mix until smooth. Add thickener to the sauce and mix well until it starts to get thicker, a few minutes. The sauce will continue getting thick even off heat, just keep that in mind. If you see that it gets too thick stop adding more and you can always add more liquid to make it thinner.
7. Return the chicken into the sauce. Add all those chicken drippings as well. Cook until the sauce coat all the chicken, reheated and gets thicker and shiny. Garnish with chopped parsley and serve.

Notes

• Other thickeners:
  cornstarch, arrowroot, tapioca flour or starch, potato starch.

• Low Carb Roux and thickener for keto sauces:
  Rule of thumb for using xanthan gum is 1/8 teaspoon per 1 cup of flour. 1/4 cup water, 2 tablespoons oil and 1/2 Tablespoon xanthan gum. Mix and add to the sauces.
• I did not use any flour to fry chicken to show you that you could make this without it, especially if you are on the low carb diet.
• You could use 1/4-1/2 cup all-purpose flour (alternative almond flour or GF flour) and dredge the chicken in the flour mixture and shake off excess before cooking.

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Cacio e Pepe Butternut Squash is one delicious, healthy and flavorful recipe. A perfect dish for your meatless Mondays or a quick weeknight dish if you wish to replace carblicious pasta.

Well, we all know that Cacio e Pepe, or in translation cheese and pepper, is a simple and delicious way to prepare a pasta dish. It is a pasta dish from modern Roman cuisine.

However, I say move over zoodles because there is a new sheriff in town.

I predict that this year we going to see more and more of butternut squash noodles.

Don’t get me wrong I love zoodles, but you could mix and match and add zoodles to butternut squash for extra nutrition and flavour.

That being said its perfect just the way it is especially if you love butternut squash.

You can serve it with any protein such as fish, poultry or meat, or tofu if you want a true meatless meal.

Anyhow, one fine afternoon I had this bowl of raw butternut squash noodles in my fridge. My husband picked up from the store just a few days before.

I would usually spiralize veggies myself, but I guess it was on sale and he got it for me.

He knows how much I love butternut squash. The only butternut squash dish that I never cared for is creamy butternut squash soup.

I do have a fantastic recipe for that soup, but I am just not a fan. Personally to me, it tastes like baby food.

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+ THAI HUMMUS PIZZA WITH BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND VEGETARIAN SAUSAGES

+ BUTTERNUT SQUASH, BEANS AND ONIONS OVER MIXED GREENS – SALAD

+ ROASTED BUTTERNUT SQUASH

+ SWEET PUMPKIN PORRIDGE

+ MEDITERRANEAN PASTA SALAD

+ BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP

If you get inspired and make my Cacio e Pepe Butternut Squash recipe, please tag me on Instagram.

@sandraseasycooking using hashtag #sandraseasycooking. Thank you so much in advance!

Happy Cooking!!!

Yield: Serves 4

Cacio e Pepe Butternut Squash

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Cacio e Pepe Butternut Squash is one delicious, healthy and flavorful recipe. A perfect dish for your meatless Mondays or a quick weeknight dish if you wish to replace carblicious pasta.

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 25 minutes

Ingredients

• 5-6 cups butternut squash noodles (about 2 medium-size butternut squash)
• 2 to 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for serving
• ¼ tsp kosher salt, or to taste
• 1/4 cup water
• 1 cup Pecorino Romano
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, the best if you grind it yourself on the coarsest setting, plus more for serving
• ¼ cup Parmesan cheese for serving, if desired

Instructions

1. Spiralize squashes: Cut necks off squashes and cut each in half crosswise. Using a thin spaghetti blade in a spiral maker, spiralize squash chunks. If noodles are very long, trim with kitchen shears to the desired length. You may use store-bought butternut squash noodles if you wish.
2. In a large skillet on medium, melt butter and add olive oil. We are using butter even though it is not traditionally used because the butternut squash noodles are not pasta noodles so we need that extra creaminess that butter produces.
3. Add noodles and salt and cook, tossing occasionally, until tender, about 10 to 12 minutes at medium-high. Add water a bit at the time every few minutes. Note* For regular Cacio e Pepe you would use pasta water, so we are adding splashes of water to help with tenderizing or cooking these veggie noodles faster as well as for making cheese sauce taste better.
4. Remove skillet from heat and add Pecorino-Romano. as well as ground black pepper. Stir and toss vigorously until both ingredients are well incorporated into the butternut squash noodles. Toss in a drizzle of the olive oil and season with salt if needed.
5. Sprinkle some parmesan cheese when you serve it if you desire.

Notes

You may add zucchini noodles and mix with butternut squash noodles.

Prep time 10 minutes only if you going to spiralize butternut squash yourself. Cook time depends on the pan and the temperature you are cooking at. I like my skillet wide, and I cook at medium-high heat.

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