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Italian chicken with cream cheese and spinach

This will get a 10 out of 10 from your family! - by Amy Sinclair
  • 26 Apr 2019
Italian chicken with cream cheese and spinach
Prep: 20 Minutes - Cook: 45 Minutes - Easy - Serves 4
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This Italian chicken with cream cheese and spinach recipe is so easy, and good for you too.

Ingredients

1 large onion, halved and thinly sliced

85g/3oz low-fat cream cheese

200g/7oz frozen leaf spinach, thawed, squeezed really well and chopped

generous grating of nutmeg

4 skinless chicken breasts

4 stems of cherry tomatoes on the vine (5-6 tomatoes per stem)

550g/1lb 4oz medium potatoes, thinly sliced

4 garlic cloves, sliced

8 pitted Kalamata olives, chopped

1 tbsp rapeseed or olive oil

salad, to serve

Method

  1. Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7 and line a large baking tray 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.

  2. 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 until almost tender and starting to colour.

  3. 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.

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