Easy Stuffed Chicken Breast with Spinach and Cheese

Summary: This stuffed chicken breast recipe is an easy weeknight winner. Made with simple ingredients like spinach, ricotta, and gouda, it’s healthy, flavourful, and perfect with a side of mashed potatoes or seasonal veggies.

🛒 Ingredients:

• 2 chicken breast halves
• 50 g fresh spinach
• 50 g ricotta cheese
• 100 g grated gouda cheese
• Salt, pepper, garlic powder
• Olive oil

👩‍🍳 Instructions:

1. Sauté finely chopped spinach in a bit of olive oil for about 3 minutes.
2. Add ricotta cheese and season with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Let cool slightly.
3. Cut slits along the chicken breasts about 1 cm apart, being careful not to slice all the way through.
4. Place chicken on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Fill each slit with the spinach-ricotta mix.
5. Brush chicken with olive oil and top generously with grated gouda cheese.
6. Bake at 180 °C (350 °F) for around 30 minutes or until fully cooked and golden on top.

Tip: Serve hot with your favourite side dish like mashed potatoes, roasted veggies, or rice.