Cheesy Chicken Spinach Bake
Cheesy Chicken Spinach Bake is loaded with a creamy cheese mixture and sautéed spinach. An easy and delicious low-carb weeknight meal.
After Kale started working from home with me, we agreed we had extra time to get in regular exercise without any excuses. We bought a gym membership and made it a habit to exercise 4 to 5 days a week. It had been a good minute since I had seen the inside of a gym, let alone gotten my heart rate over 100. haha. So for the last year, we have been consistently going, and we are both feeling a lot better. I also love that it’s something we can do together.
CHEESY CHICKEN SPINACH BAKE
Along with the exercise, we knew we had to change our diets to drop some weight, too. We researched carb cycling and have really enjoyed it! Carb cycling is balancing out high-carb days with low-carb days, and it has worked out so well for us. It doesn’t make me feel deprived at all. This Cheesy Chicken Spinach Bake is something I make regularly now on our low-carb days, and it is delicious!
Inside this incredible Cheesy Chicken Spinach Bake is sautéed spinach, a creamy, dreamy cheese mixture, and of course, chicken. It is wonderful, and the flavor is so good. I like to serve it with roasted asparagus or a Caesar salad, and we just love it. I have been researching more of these yummy low-carb dinners and plan on sharing some in the near future! But before that, make sure you try this one. It’s awesome.
Cheesy Chicken Spinach Bake
Ingredients
- 3 large boneless skinless chicken breasts cut in half lengthwise to form thinner cutlets
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil divided
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 6 ounces cream cheese softened
- 2 cups baby spinach leaves
- 1 cup shredded Mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9×13 inch glass baking dish with cooking spray.
- Lay chicken breast cutlets in baking dish. Drizzle 1 Tablespoon olive oil all over chicken. Sprinkle evenly with minced garlic and Italian seasoning. Spread softened cream cheese all over the tops of chicken.
- Meanwhile, heat a small non-stick skillet with the remaining 1 Tablespoon olive oil over medium heat. Add baby spinach. Cook and stir until spinach wilts. Place wilted spinach evenly over chicken. Sprinkle Mozzarella cheese all over the top.
- Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until chicken is cooked thoroughly (inside temp of chicken should be 165 degrees F.) Serve warm and enjoy!
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you did it again gave a delicious recipe. I made it last night and followed the recipe as written and it came out perfect . I have tried many of your recipes and have not had a bad one yet. Thank you for sharing .
Aww thank you so much, Marlene! 🙂
I just made this for supper and its very good!
sooo good!
Added a hint of red pepper flakes, and mixed the oil, garlic, seasonings then cream cheese in a bowl. Butterflied the chicken in a casserole dish then spread the cream cheese evenly. Then Mozzarella and a little oil on top. Cooked uncovered. I served corn on the side too .. more veggies the better!
This is so good and easy. My husband isn’t a cream cheese fan, so I used ranch dressing under the Spinach layer. delicious!
Absolutely delicious. like somecothers, mine was watery. that didn’t affect how much we enjoyed dinner tonight. thank you.
This was so good. My DH kept raving about how good it was. Chicken breast with ribs attached were on sale, so hubby kindly sliced the top of the breasts off
The rest went to crockpot for dogs. I would use whole ones for dogs otherwise. I coated with Cajun seasoning and quick fried in bacon grease. Removed chicken browned chopped onion and garlic and added to mix with cream cheese and garlic seasoning. Added more grease and butter to wilt spinach. These large breast can be dry, stringy and rubbery. Problem solved with this recipe. And again sooooo good. Thanks.
I made this tonight. I seasoned my chicken breasts with salt, pepper, oregano, and paprika on both sides. Everything else was made exactly as directed, and we loved it. Thank You.