Healthy Italian recipe for 4 people, takes only 45 mins; recipe has onion, cream cheese, spinach, nutmeg, chicken breast, cherry tomato, potato, garlic clove, black kalamata olive, olive oil and salad.
Italian chicken with cream cheese & spinach
Course: Healthy Italian
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
20 mins
Ingredients
- Garlic Clove: 4 garlic cloves, sliced
- Chicken Breast: 4 skinless chicken breasts
- Black Kalamata Olive: 8 pitted black Kalamata olive, chopped
- Cherry Tomato: 4 stems of cherry tomatoes on the vine (5-6 tomatoes per stem)
- Olive Oil: 1 tbsp rapeseed or olive oil
- Onion: 1 large onion, halved and thinly sliced
- Nutmeg: generous grating of nutmeg
- Potato: 550g medium potato, thinly sliced
- Salad: salad, to serve
- Spinach: 200g frozen leaf spinach, thawed, squeezed really well and chopped
- Cream Cheese: 85g low-fat cream cheese
Directions
- Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7 and line a large baking sheet with baking parchment. Put the onion in a bowl and pour over boiling water to cover. Leave to soften for 15 mins. Meanwhile, beat the cheese, spinach and nutmeg together with plenty of black pepper. Spread over the chicken breasts, then top with the tomatoes.
- Drain the onion slices, then toss them with the potato, garlic, olives, oil and black pepper. Arrange the potato mixture on the parchment in 4 piles spaced apart, then flatten. Bake for 25 mins more until almost tender and starting to colour.
- Remove from the oven, put 1 chicken breast on each pile of potatoes, and bake for 20 mins until the chicken and potatoes are tender and cooked all the way through, and the tomatoes are roasted. Serve with a big salad.
