Serves: 2
Make cuts in the chicken breast just right and it becomes a bowl. Add some cheese and veggies, bake it and pair it up with my Roasted Peppers and Cauliflower and Green Bean Salad recipes, well now you have a delicious meal.
Ingredients
2 tbsp olive oil
1 long sweet pepper finely chopped
2 shallots finely chopped
4 cups baby spinach
¼ cup vegetable broth
Garlic salt or salt and pepper to taste
2 large chicken breasts
Fresh mozzarella cheese
Directions
Heat oil in skillet and sauté pepper and shallots for five minutes on medium-high heat
Stir in spinach and add vegetable broth and garlic salt and mix well
Cook until liquid is absorbed and spinach has wilted
Set aside to cool for 15 minutes
Preheat oven 390°F and brush some butter or margarine in a coverable baking dish
Pat dry chicken and take off any fatty bits
Make a cut down the middle of chicken and then filet on each side to make a shape of boat bowl
Season chicken with garlic salt or salt and pepper to taste
Press two slices of mozzarella into each boat bowl
Fill each chicken bowl with half of the spinach mixture
Place both in baking dish and cover and bake for 40 minutes
Uncover and place two slices of fresh mozzarella on each piece of chicken
Bake for 10 more minutes
Remove from oven and let sit for five minutes
Note: Ingredients for Roasted Peppers and Cauliflower recipe also shown in ingredients photo
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