This spinach and cheese stuffed chicken breast is juicy, loaded with flavor, and full of creamy goodness.
Delicious chicken breast stuffed with spinach and ricotta cheese baked with a hearty tomato sauce. There's always room for dessert...but after having seconds of this meal, it'll be pretty tough!
Spinach and Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breast
This spinach and cheese stuffed chicken breast is juicy, loaded with flavor, and full of creamy goodness.
Equipment
Ingredients
Sauce
- 28 oz crushed tomatoes canned
- 15 oz tomato sauce diced tomatoes work too; optional
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 4 cloves garlic chopped
- 2 tsp basil dry or fresh; chopped
- 1 tsp onion powder
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp pepper
- ⅛ tsp red pepper optional
Instructions
- Cook the sauce - heat the olive oil in a sauce pan. Once heated, add garlic - cook until fragrant. Add tomatoes, basil, onion powder, salt, pepper(s). Bring to boil, then simmer for 15-20 minutes.
- While the sauce cooks, preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Make spinach stuffing - in a pan, heat a tbsp of olive oil. Once hot, add the spinach - season with salt and pepper. Cook for about 3 minutes or until slightly wilted. Turn heat off and add ricotta cheese. Mix in and set aside to cool. Wipe out pan.
- While spinach cooks, pat chicken breast dry with paper towels. With a sharp knife, make 3-4 slits in the chicken about ¾ of the way through the meat. Season with salt and pepper.
- Stuff spinach & ricotta stuffing inside each of the slits in the chicken.
- Put a few scoops of tomato sauce at the bottom of a baking pan. Add the chicken to the pan and top with the rest of the sauce (you can leave some aside to top later). Bake in oven for 20-25 minutes or until cooked through.
- While chicken bakes, in the same pan used to cook spinach, heat 2 tbsp of olive oil. When heated, add asparagus - season with salt & pepper. Add another clove or 2 or crushed garlic if you’d like.
Notes
Serve hot topping asparagus over the chicken and covering with Parmesan cheese (optional). Enjoy!
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Hey...how you doin'? I'm Tommy, The Skinny Guinea…just a busy dad who loves to cook. Offering easy to cook dinners and family friendly recipes, while always staying true to my Italian roots!
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