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 syn 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 syns. Trust me!!

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How can I add a 1/3 speed foods to this Creamy Cheesy Spinach Stuffed Chicken Tray Bake?

There are spinach and asparagus included in this recipe which all adds to your speed foods, 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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Yield: SERVES 4

Creamy Cheesy Spinach Stuffed Chicken Tray Bake

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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.

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes

Ingredients

• 680g (24oz) of baby potatoes halved
• 680g (24oz) of asparagus, trimmed and then chopped in half.
• 4 boneless skinless Chicken Breasts (250g/9oz each)
• 2 tsp of paprika
• 1 tsp of sea salt
• 1 tsp of onion powder
• 6 tbs of low-fat cream cheese - 6 syns
• 120g (4.25oz) of parmesan cheese, grated - 4 HEa's
• 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

1. Add the potatoes to a saucepan and cover with water, add a pinch of salt.
2. Bring to a boil, turn off heat and leave for 5 minutes. Drain
3. Preheat oven to 200c/400f (gas mark 6) (not a fan oven)
4. Add the potatoes to a baking tray and spray over the top with cooking oil spray.
5. Place in the oven and bake for 20 minutes
6. While the potatoes are baking, slightly flatten the chicken breasts.
7. Using a sharp knife make a slit in the side of each breast so it creates a pocket.
8. In a bowl combine the cream cheese, parmesan, chopped spinach and crushed garlic.
9. Stuff this equally into the pockets of each chicken breast.
10. In another small bowl combine the paprika, salt and onion powder
11. Carefully rub the seasoning into each chicken breast.
12. Remove tray and scatter the asparagus, then make 4 equal sized cleared spaces on the tray and add the stuffed chicken breasts
13. Spray over the top with cooking oil spray.
14. Place back in the oven for approx 25 minutes until the chicken is cooked through.
15. Scatter with some fresh parsley, season as needed with salt and black pepper.
16. Serve and Enjoy!!

Notes

This recipe is gluten free, Slimming World and Weight Watchers friendly.

• Slimming World: 1.5 syns and 1 HEa per serving
• WW Flex/Freestyle Smart Points: 9 per serving

NOTE: Different brands of low fat cream cheese vary in syn value so check the syns of the one you use.

*suitable for freezing

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Nutrition Information

Yield

4

Serving Size

1
Amount Per ServingCalories 597 Total Fat 13.7g Saturated Fat 6.4g Carbohydrates 41.4g Fiber 7.7g Sugar 8.3g Protein 83g

Nutritional information is an estimate and is to be used for informational purposes only. Ingredients can vary greatly from brand to brand and therefore it would be impossible to give accurate information.