Creamy Cheesy Spinach Stuffed Chicken Tray Bake - Tender Juicy Chicken Breasts with a Creamy Parmesan Spinach Stuffing all baked on one tray with Baby Yukon Gold Potatoes and Asparagus.
Can you tell I am loving tray bakes at the moment? I just love their simplicity and the fact I can add all ingredients onto one tray and be done.
Okay yes, we do parboil the potatoes using a saucepan, but hey that can quickly be washed up while this cooks in the oven.
Gotta love meals that don't leave with heaps of different pots and pans at the end of a meal, right?
Low-Fat Cream Cheese? What is that?
Whenever you see me refer to cream cheese, I mean Philadelphia or a store brand variety. I do not and never will mean Quark.
Yes, I know Quark is fat free. but have you tasted it? There is nothing creamy about that ingredient what so ever and you risk ruining an amazing recipe if you skip my advice.
Okay, it works in some recipes, but never for a creamy flavoured dish. It's sour tasting for one. Don't compromise just for the sake of saving a couple of calories. Trust me!!
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How can I add a ⅓ vegetables to this Creamy Cheesy Spinach Stuffed Chicken Tray Bake?
There are spinach and asparagus included in this recipe which all adds to your vegetables, but some additional green veggies of choice would be great too.
I love these Sauteed Garlic Brussel Sprouts another option would be to swap the potatoes out for some cubes of butternut squash - yum!!
Kitchen Items use in this Creamy Cheesy Spinach Stuffed Chicken Tray Bake:
- Measuring Scales
- Chopping Board
- Measuring spoons
- Santoku Knife
- Wooden Spoon
- Mixing Bowl
- Parchment Paper
- Baking Tray
- Saucepan
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Creamy Cheesy Spinach Stuffed Chicken Tray Bake
Creamy Cheesy Spinach Stuffed Chicken Tray Bake - Tender Juicy Chicken Breasts with a Creamy Parmesan Spinach Stuffing all baked on one tray with Baby Yukon Gold Potatoes and Asparagus.
Ingredients
- 600g (21oz) of baby potatoes halved
- 600g (21oz) of asparagus, trimmed and then chopped in half.
- 4 small boneless skinless Chicken Breasts (200g/7oz each)
- 2 teaspoons of paprika
- 1 teaspoons of sea salt
- 1 teaspoons of onion powder
- 5 tablespoons of low-fat cream cheese
- 120g (4.25oz) of parmesan cheese, grated
- 1.5 handfuls of fresh spinach, roughly chopped
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- Cooking oil spray (I use avocado)
- fresh parsley
- salt and black pepper
Instructions
- Add the potatoes to a saucepan and cover with water, add a pinch of salt.
- Bring to a boil, turn off heat and leave for 5 minutes. Drain
- Preheat oven to 200c/400f (gas mark 6) (not a fan oven)
- Add the potatoes to a baking tray and spray over the top with cooking oil spray.
- Place in the oven and bake for 20 minutes
- While the potatoes are baking, slightly flatten the chicken breasts.
- Using a sharp knife make a slit in the side of each breast so it creates a pocket.
- In a bowl combine the cream cheese, parmesan, chopped spinach and crushed garlic.
- Stuff this equally into the pockets of each chicken breast.
- In another small bowl combine the paprika, salt and onion powder
- Carefully rub the seasoning into each chicken breast.
- Remove tray and scatter the asparagus, then make 4 equal sized cleared spaces on the tray and add the stuffed chicken breasts
- Spray over the top with cooking oil spray.
- Place back in the oven for approx 25 minutes until the chicken is cooked through.
- Scatter with some fresh parsley, season as needed with salt and black pepper.
- Serve and Enjoy!!
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Nutrition Information
Yield 4 Serving Size 1Amount Per Serving Calories 597Total Fat 13.7gSaturated Fat 6.4gCarbohydrates 41.4gFiber 7.7gSugar 8.3gProtein 83g
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Lucie says
I notice that you say “not fan oven” after the oven temperature. My oven is a fan oven, what should I do differently? Looking forward to making it!
Shevy (Slimming Eats) says
It’s just to make those with a fan oven aware that the temps were on a non fan oven. So if using a fan oven you should lower temp by 15-20c
Debra Wells says
Just made this for dinner. Absolutely delicious. Compliments from all the family.
Laura says
Made this for dinner tonight, didn’t have time to par boil and roast potatoes in the oven, so just chopped them up into bite size pieces, sprinkled with lemon juice and roasted in the actifry while the chicken and asparagus was cooking in the oven, then sprinkled with salt and added to the tray before putting the parsley on, it cut down on the cooking by about 30 minutes in total, but my goodness the overall dish was delicious! Will definitely be a family favourite now!
Shevy (Slimming Eats) says
so glad you enjoyed it Laura - thanks for sharing your cheat in the actifry, sounds like a great way to do it when short on time.
Jude says
I am going to make this for guests would it be okay to prepare the chicken breasts in advance and keep in the fridge?
Shevy (Slimming Eats) says
yep that should be perfectly fine 🙂
Heather Buckley says
This is absolutely gorgeous ! Family already asked to gave again this week !!
Katherine Birch says
Its says this recipe is suitable for freezing. At what stage would you freeze?
Shevy (Slimming Eats) says
I freezed it once cooked, fully defrosted and then just heated in the oven or microwave.
Lorraine says
Going to try this for my friend tomorrow but i was wondering would the asparagus not be really wilted being in the oven for 25mins? When roasting it i usually only have it in for 10mins maximum.
Shevy (Slimming Eats) says
I love my asparagus caramelized when roasted, so tasty!! but yes if you like it tender add it onto the tray later, so it's cooked to your liking.
Kay says
Cooker this yesterday it was delicious this will be one of my favourite dishes for the future.
Donna says
Please help,
I can’t find onion powder anywhere, only onion granules and I really want to make this,
Hope you can advise.
Thank you, Donna x
Shevy (Slimming Eats) says
onion granules are fine, it's the same as onion powder just not as fine 🙂
Louise says
Could this be cooked and reheated?
Shevy (Slimming Eats) says
it's best eaten once cooked, but I have reheated and it was fine 🙂
Rosa says
This would be a perfect recipe for my son who is starting uni in September. As he’ll be cooking just for one, can he freeze the chicken breasts after step 11?
Thanks,
Rosa x
Siobhan (Slimming Eats) says
yep he sure can, I freeze this often. 🙂
Charley Morton says
I really don't like asparagus. Could I swap this for tenderstem broccoli?
Siobhan (Slimming Eats) says
Yep sure, it should be fine.
Marie says
Want to make this for tonight, but just realised I'm out of parmesan! Can I use cheddar?
Siobhan (Slimming Eats) says
Sorry for the late response, I haven't tried it with cheddar, but a strong mature cheddar with lots of flavour should work.
Louise says
Could tenderstem brocolli be used instead if asparagus?
Nina says
Hi greetings from the UK and thank you for the fabulous recipe do you add the chopped spinach raw i.e., not steamed/cooked first… just wanted to check. I am assuming that the chicken is just brushed/sprayed with oil and then seasoned with the spices? It looks golden brown?