Spinach Chicken Casserole With Cream Cheese & Mozzarella Recipe
This chicken breasts casserole recipe is packed with delicious flavors, try this chicken casserole with spinach, cream cheese and mozzarella for nice combination during busy day’s meal.
Spinach Chicken Casserole with cheese and mozzarella is the pack of delicious flavors of cream cheese, spinach and chicken for a delicious dinner recipe. This easy spinach chicken breasts casserole recipe comes together quickly which makes nice combination for a busy meal.
Ingredients Needed For Spinach Chicken Casserole Recipe
This spinach chicken casserole recipe with cream cheese and mozzarella is so simple to make and so comforting. You’ll have your delicious creamy chicken casserole with in less than 40 minutes of preparation with simple ingredients like chicken breasts, spinach and seasoning. This is the perfect chicken dinner casserole for busy weeknights.
How To Make This Chicken Casserole
It requires only a few steps which is very easy to make this chicken casserole.
Arrange marinated chicken breasts into a baking dish, add more seasoning if you like. Cut your chicken breast pretty thin to make cutlets to cook chicken quickly.
Spread cream cheese on top of chicken breasts, it’s easy when your cream cheese is at room temperature.
Top cream cheese with sauteed spinach, saute your spinach first to render some of its water and doesn’t make chicken casserole soggy when baking.
Then sprinkle chicken casserole with shredded mozzarella cheese before popping in oven at 400°F.
Directions For Spinach Chicken Casserole
For preparing this spinach chicken casserole, add olive oil, garlic, Italian seasoning and red pepper flakes into a ziplock bag along with ½ tsp of salt and ½ tsp of black pepper. Then seal your bag and shake until it mixed well. Now, add chicken breasts, seal and massage so your chicken breasts can covered in marinade. Then set aside for 10-15 minutes on counter while you prep remaining ingredients. Position your rack in center of oven and preheat oven to 400°F.
Now, quickly wilt spinach in a skillet with 1 tbsp olive oil and set aside.
Then arrange your chicken breasts drained from marinade in a baking dish. Spread softened cream cheese over chicken breasts and lay spinach on top of cream cheese, finally sprinkle mozzarella over the top.
Later, bake spinach chicken casserole for about 30 minutes. Your chicken casserole is done when cooked to an internal temperature of 165°F. Then serve spinach chicken casserole warm with a side of cauliflower rice or baked veggies and enjoy.
Tips For Spinach Chicken Breasts Casserole Recipe
You can cut your chicken breasts into cubes to ensure marinade coat chicken more deeply and speed up baking time of casserole.
Freeze individual portions of spinach chicken breasts casserole which have comforting dinner for evenings when you don’t like cooking from scratch. You can follow instructions below for reheating frozen chicken casserole.
Cream cheese and mozzarella should have enough salt, which makes easy with salt in marinade.
If you want your chicken casserole spicier, then add a tsp of cayenne into marinade or combine one-half spices with cream cheese before spreading on top of chicken and spinach.
Serving Suggestions
You can serve this best chicken casserole with some green beans, roasted asparagus, cauliflower rice or broccoli on side.
Can We Freeze Chicken Casserole?
Yes, this easy chicken casserole with spinach makes an amazing make-ahead meal or freezer meal. You can freeze casserole baked or unbaked:
To bake uncooked chicken casserole after freezing, then thaw chicken casserole overnight in refrigerator and bake as directed in instructions. Baking chicken casserole straight out from the freezer is not recommended because it would take long time and not cook evenly.
To reheat baked casserole after freezing, thaw it overnight in refrigerator, later cover chicken casserole with foil and bake at 350°F for about 30 minutes.
Spinach Chicken Casserole With Cream Cheese & Mozzarella Recipe
This chicken breasts casserole recipe is packed with delicious flavors, try this chicken casserole with spinach, cream cheese and mozzarella for nice combination during busy day's meal.
Ingredients
2 large boneless skinless chicken breasts8 oz of cream cheese 2 cups of Spinach2 tbsp of olive oil 4 oz of mozzarella cheese 3 cloves garlic ½ tsp of red pepper flakes ½ tsp of salt ½ tsp of pepper ½ tsp of Italian seasoning
2largeboneless skinless chicken breasts
8ozcream cheese
2cupsspinach
2tbspolive oil
4ozmazarella cheese
3clovesgarlic
1/2 tspred pepper flakes
1/2tspsalt
1/2tsppepper
1/2 tspitalian pepper
Notes
Directions For Spinach Chicken Casserole
For preparing this spinach chicken casserole, add olive oil, garlic, Italian seasoning and red pepper flakes into a ziplock bag along with ½ tsp of salt and ½ tsp of black pepper. Then seal your bag and shake until it mixed well. Now, add chicken breasts, seal and massage so your chicken breasts can covered in marinade. Then set aside for 10-15 minutes on counter while you prep remaining ingredients. Position your rack in center of oven and preheat oven to 400°F.
Now, quickly wilt spinach in a skillet with 1 tbsp olive oil and set aside.
Then arrange your chicken breasts drained from marinade in a baking dish. Spread softened cream cheese over chicken breasts and lay spinach on top of cream cheese, finally sprinkle mozzarella over the top.
Later, bake spinach chicken casserole for about 30 minutes. Your chicken casserole is done when cooked to an internal temperature of 165°F. Then serve spinach chicken casserole warm with a side of cauliflower rice or baked veggies and enjoy.