Cream Cheese Spinach Stuffed Chicken Breast Recipe | MasalaHerb.com (2024)

Published: Sep 12, 2020 · Modified: Nov 2, 2022 by Helene Dsouza

Cream cheese and spinach stuffed chicken breast in a creamy flavorful sauce baked in the oven.

This quick and easy healthier low carb dish will please your family!

🔪 How to prepare this dish?

We love to prepare dish stuffed chicken dinner meal because it's easy to prepare, and creamy cheese and spinach is a delicious combination.

Here is an overview how it's prepared from scratch.

The full recipe is located at the bottom of this post with detailed instructions.

Step 1

Cut "pockets" into your boneless chicken breasts.

Cook fresh spinach briefly or use frozen spinach. Chop spinach small.

Combine all the stuffing ingredients in a bowl.

Step 2

Arrange chicken in baking dish and sprinkle salt and black pepper over chicken.

Stuff Chicken breasts with filling.

Step 3

Pour cream into the dish and drizzle oil over chicken.

Bake Chicken first covered and at last uncovered.

Serve hot with a side dish of your choice.

🍗 Ingredient options

If you don't have cream cheese you can use greek yogurt or ricotta too.

You can choose your cheese, which you want to use along with the cream cheese.

I like to use grated Gruyere, mozzarella or cheddar cheese.

But you can also use a blue cheese such as gorgonzola, goat cheese such as feta, and even gouda cheese.

Spinach is a leafy green, that means technically you can substitute spinach with any other leafy greens such as kale, collard, turnip greens, mustard greens, and similar vegetables.

However, I believe that nothing beats the combination of cream cheese and spinach!

If you want to use another leafy green, don't forget to blanch it first. Blanching means to cook briefly in water to soften and retain nutrients.

🥣 Serving ideas

Serve this stuffed chicken with any of the following sides:

• cooked rice - plain or aromatic rice
• wheat berries
• mash potato
• cooked pasta or spätzle
• roasted vegetables - brussels sprouts, carrots, potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, green beans. Take your pick.
• plain simple salads such as a green leaf salad, beet salad, carrot salad, or your favorite salad.

🍱 Storing

Leftovers

You can store the leftover in an airtight container in your fridge for up to two days.

To warm it up again, place into a pan or your oven for a few minutes over medium to slow heat until it's warmed up.

For the microwave, place into a microwave save dish and heat up over a medium heat setting for a few minutes or until hot.

To freeze

You can also freeze this dish. To do so, stuff your chicken as per instructions but skip the sauce.

Place the stuffed chicken pieces into freezer-friendly containers surrounded by parchment paper (so that you can take them out easily without them sticking to each other when frozen) and freeze.

When you want to use them, place them in the fridge overnight to defrost, OR if using frozen by place into a casserole dish with the sauce prepped and poured in.

Cook in the oven with extra time in mind to defrost and cook through.

You can add about 20 minutes to the cooking time if you are cooking non-thawed and still frozen chicken breasts in the oven.

👁️ More Chicken Breast Recipes

• Dijon Mustard Chicken Breasts
• Balsamic Chicken
• Ham and Cheese Chicken Roll-ups

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