Linda's Fancy Stuffed Chicken
Split chicken breast stuffed witth mixture of spinach, feta cheese and other flavor filled ingredients
Equipment
- 2 skillets
- 1 sharp knife
- 1 spatula
- 1 cutting board
- 1 medium baking dish
- 1 strainer, optional
Ingredients
- 3 chicken breast boneless or bone in
- salt, black pepper, smoked paprika to taste
- 2 cups fresh spinach frozen in lieu of fresh
- 1 small onion
- 1/2 cup black olives optional
- 1/3 cup feta cheese crumbles optional
- 1 can artichoke hearts or jar
- 1/2 plus cup sundried tomatoes not packed in oil is best
- 1 1/2 tbsp olive oil one for skillet and extra to drizzle over chicken
- cooking spray
Instructions
- Split chicken breast without cutting through making a pocket for stuffing
- Sprinkle and pat salt, black pepper and paprika to taste on top of chicken breast
- Spray baking dish with cooking spray
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees
- Drain well the artichokes and break up the hearts
- Drain optional black olives
- Dice onion
- Roughly cut artichokes and black olives into smaller pieces
- Sauté onions in olive oil
- Add spinach to skillet and stir until cooked
- Add artichokes, sundried tomatoes to the skillet. Stir and cook for 2-3 minutes until heated
- Turn off heat
- Divide mixture in half and put into the second skillet
- In one skillet stir in black olives
- The mixture will stay warm. No extra cooking is needed
- Stuff olive mixture into one chicken breast according to taste preferences
- Stir feta cheese into remaining black olive mixture
- Stuff into another chicken breast
- Stir feta cheese into mixture that does not have black olives
- Sttuff the last chicken breast
- Lightly drizzle chicken with olive oil
- Bake uncovered for apps 40 minutes until chicken is fully cooked