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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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
- 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
- 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!!
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: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 597Total Fat: 13.7gSaturated Fat: 6.4gCarbohydrates: 41.4gFiber: 7.7gSugar: 8.3gProtein: 83g
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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!
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
Just made this for dinner. Absolutely delicious. Compliments from all the family.
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!
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.
I am going to make this for guests would it be okay to prepare the chicken breasts in advance and keep in the fridge?
yep that should be perfectly fine 🙂
This is absolutely gorgeous ! Family already asked to gave again this week !!
Its says this recipe is suitable for freezing. At what stage would you freeze?
I freezed it once cooked, fully defrosted and then just heated in the oven or microwave.
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.
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.
Cooker this yesterday it was delicious this will be one of my favourite dishes for the future.
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
onion granules are fine, it’s the same as onion powder just not as fine 🙂
Could this be cooked and reheated?
it’s best eaten once cooked, but I have reheated and it was fine 🙂
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
yep he sure can, I freeze this often. 🙂
I really don’t like asparagus. Could I swap this for tenderstem broccoli?
Yep sure, it should be fine.