Spinach Ricotta Chicken Roll Up Food

SPINACH RICOTTA CHICKEN ROLL UP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.Grease a large baking sheet or roasting pan with olive oil.
• Season the chicken cutlets with salt and pepper.
• In a large bowl mix the eggs together with a fork. Put each piece of chicken in the eggs.
• Put seasoned bread crumbs in a shallow dish.
• Remove the chicken, one piece at a time from the eggs, allow the excess egg to drip off then put the chicken in the bread crumbs using fingers to pat the crumbs on.
• Put the chicken on baking sheet. Repeat until all the chicken is coated.
• Cut the spinach leaves into thin slices.
• Combine the ricotta and spinach ribbons in a small bowl. Spread the mixture onto the chicken cutlet and roll up the chicken with the filling.
• Bake at 400 degrees for about 20 minutes until golden and just cooked through.
• Top each piece of chicken generously with sauce.
• Return to oven about 10 minutes or until sauce has become warm.
• Remove from the oven and serve on a bed of marina and garnish with fresh basil.

EASY SPINACH STUFFED CHICKEN ROLL UPS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 F. Grease an 8x11 baking dish with 1 tbsp of olive oil and set aside. Add egg whites to a large bowl and breadcrumbs to another large bowl and set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, mix together ricotta, 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese, mushrooms, sundried tomatoes, spinach and 1/2 tsp salt and pepper.
• Season chicken cutlets with salt and pepper. Lay each cutlet flat and fill with a thin layer of ricotta-spinach stuffing mix. Roll up chicken cutlets, then dip in bowl of egg whites, then bowl of breadcrumbs.
• Add each chicken roll up to the greased baking dish and bake in the oven for 25 minutes. Remove from oven, top with marinara sauce and cheese and bake another 5-10 min until cheese is melted.
• Garnish with basil (optional) and serve with your choice of green (I roasted a bunch of broccoli rabe with 1 tbsp of olive oil, a pinch of salt and two cloves of garlic at 400F for 10 min). Enjoy!

THREE-CHEESE CHICKEN ROLL-UPS RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• Sauté the garlic and spinach in oil until the spinach wilts. Add the ricotta, parmesan, salt, and pepper, and stir until heated.
• Preheat oven to 450°F (230°C).
• Salt and pepper the chicken breasts, add the cheese mixture, and roll 'em up.
• Dip each chicken breast roll-up in the egg, then the breadcrumbs, and place in a 8×8 (20 x 20 cm) or 9×9 (22 x 22 cm) baking dish seam side down.
• Bake for 25 minutes.
• Remove from oven and top with marinara sauce and mozzarella. Bake an additional 5 minutes. Remove from oven and top with basil.
• Enjoy!

SPINACH AND RICOTTA ROLLS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200C (390F) fan forced or 220C (435/430F) convectional, please note that there can be slight variations between ovens.
• Heat oil in a fry pan, add onion and fry gently for 2 minutes, add spinach and pinenuts and season with salt and pepper to taste and cook for 5 minutes.
• Let cool.
• Add ricotta and mix thoroughly and then add the lightly beaten egg and mix well together.
• Place pastry sheets on a flat surface and cut in half.
• Spoon or pipe spinach mixture along the length of each half of the pastry and brush water down the length of the other side and roll up like a sausage roll, repeat with other sheets of pastry and mix.
• Cut to preferred size (I like to cut into 4 to make mini rolls about 6cm long).
• Put a couple of slits in each roll (to allow steam to escape).
• Place on baking tray/sheet seam side down.
• Put in oven and bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown.

MAKE-AHEAD SPINACH PHYLLO ROLL-UPS

Steps:

• Mix first 5 ingredients until blended.
• Brush 1 phyllo sheet lightly with butter; top with 2 more phyllo sheets, lightly brushing each layer with some of the remaining butter. Place remaining phyllo sheet between 2 sheets of plastic wrap until ready to use; set aside.
• Spread 1/5 of the spinach mixture along one short side of phyllo stack. Fold in long sides of phyllo; roll up from one short side to make log. Repeat with remaining phyllo sheets and spinach mixture to make 4 additional logs. Brush with remaining butter. Make small cuts in tops of logs at 1-inch intervals. Place in large freezer-weight resealable plastic bags or wrap tightly in plastic wrap.
• Freeze up to 3 months. When ready to bake, remove desired number of logs from freezer. Refrigerate, tightly wrapped, several hours or overnight until thawed. Unwrap, then place on baking sheet.
• Bake in 375°F oven 25 min. or until golden brown. Cool 5 min. Transfer to cutting board. Use serrated knife to cut each log into 6 slices.

SPINACH AND RICOTTA CHEESE ROLL-UPS

Steps:

• Set oven to 375 degrees.
• Squeeze-dry the thawed spinach very well, (is is very important to make sure there is NO moisture left in the spinach, as this will make the mixture soggy).
• Mix the spinach with the melted butter; set aside.
• In a bowl, mix the ricotta, grated mozza cheese, 2 eggs, flour, 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, salt, pepper and nutmeg, mix thoroughly.
• Mix the spinach in the ricotta mixture, mix well to combine.
• Spread the mixture onto a cooked lasagna noodle; roll up.
• Repeat with the remaining noodles.
• Lay the rolled noodles into a prepared greased baking dish, seam-side down.
• Cover with a layer of marinara sauce (you do not have to cover the rolls completely with the sauce).
• Sprinkle with Parmesan chees (any amount desired).
• Bake for 30 minutes.
• *NOTE* if desired sprinkle grated Mozzeralla cheese over the rolls the last 10 minutes of baking time.

CHICKEN BREAST STUFFED WITH SPINACH AND RICOTTA

Steps:

• Mix the salt and sugar with water, soak pounded chicken breasts for about an hour.
• Drain, dry and lay flat between sheets of parchment.
• While the chicken is brining prepare the filling by mixing all the filling ingredients in a bowl and seasoning to taste.
• Heat your oven to 325 degress F.
• Prepare a sheet pan with a large cooling rack on top.
• Lay out a large piece of parchment or wax paper, cut 12 pieces of butchers twine about 8" long.
• Place a heavy pan or cast iron skillet over medium/medium high heat, add two tablespoons of oil.
• The oil should be just below the smoke point.
• Have a splatter guard nearby!
• Wisk milk and egg in bowl then pour into a deep plate.
• Place seasoned flour into a second deep plate.
• Working one breast at a time, dredge the chicken in the flour, be sure to cover both sides.
• Sprinkle a HEAVY layer of bread crumbs on your parchment covered work surface.
• Drag 'finished side' of chicken through the egg wash and press down on the bread crumbs.
• Spread a generous amount of the filling on the chicken, about 1/8" thick or so.
• Gently roll and tuck the chicken, tie with two of the 8 inch lengths of butcher's twine.
• Lay to rest on the prepared cooling rack.
• Repeat with the other 5 breasts.
• Working 2 rolls at a time brown the chicken on all sides to a nice, golden brown.
• Place back on the cooling rack/sheet pan rig after browning.
• Repeat until complete.
• Place breasts in the pre-heated oven and cook until done.
• About 170-175 degrees F, maybe 40 minutes, depending on the size of the breasts.
• Let them sit uncovered for 5 minutes before cutting/serving.
• THe outside is nice and crisp, the inside is juicy and flavorful!
• You'll prolly have extra filling, if you've been careful and have not contaminated the filling with raw chicken, it makes an EXCELLENT raviolli filling!

SPINACH RICOTTA-STUFFED CHICKEN BREASTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375ºF (190ºC).
• Stuffing: In large skillet, heat butter over medium heat; cook onion and garlic stirring often, for 3 to 5 minutes or until softened.
• Add spinach, parsley and basil; cook, stirring, for about 2 minutes or until spinach wilts and moisture evaporates.
• Let cool completely.
• In bowl, mix spinach mixture, ricotta, mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses, egg yolk, salt, nutmeg and pepper.
• Using sharp knife, bone chicken, leaving skin attached.
• Gently loosen skin from 1 long side of each breast, leaving skin attached at curved side.
• Stuff about 1/4 cup (50 mL) stuffing under skin, pressing to spread evenly.
• Tuck ends of skin and meat underneath.
• Place on greased rack in foil-lined pan.
• Brush with butter.
• Bake in oven, basting occasionally, for about 35 minutes or until golden and chicken is no longer pink inside.

SPINACH RICOTTA CHICKEN BAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Coat a 8-by-8 baking dish with olive oil spray.
• Cook chicken in a skillet until just starting to brown.
• Place the spinach in the middle of a clean dishtowel. Fold up the towel over the spinach and wring out as much moisture as possible.
• Place the spinach in a large mixing bowl.
• Add the ricotta, Parmesan, egg whites, garlic powder and nutmeg. Stir well.
• Move spinach mixture to the prepared dish over top of the chicken. With the back of a spoon, spread it out to uniformly fill the dish.
• Bake for 20 minutes, or until is hot throughout and the top begins to brown.
• Let stand for five minutes to slightly cool.
• Place the sauce in sauce pan. Heat until warm.
• Spoon sauce over chicken-spinach-ricotta bake.
• Serve immediately.

SPINACH-CHICKEN ALFREDO LASAGNA ROLL UPS

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease an 11 x 7-inch or a 13 x 9-inch baking dish.
• In a skillet melt butter over medium heat; add in the onions and saute stirring with wooden spoon for about 8 minutes or until lightly golden brown (adding in the garlic the last 2 minutes of cooking).
• Add in drained spinach and saute for 2 minutes more mixing with a wooden spoon; transfer to a large mixing bowl.
• Add in the cooked chicken, ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese, Parmesan cheese, seasoned salt, egg and pinch nutmeg; mix with wooden spoon until well combined, then season with black pepper to taste.
• Place the cooked noodles on a wax paper lined flat surface.
• Evenly divide the ricotta mixute into eight scoops on to a plate.
• Spread about half of the alfredo sauce into the bottom of the baking dish.
• Spread one scoop onto one cooked lasagna noodle, then spread out with a spoon to cover the noodle completey.
• Roll up starting at the short end.
• Place seam side down on top of the sauce.
• Repeat same method with remaining 7 noodles.
• Sprinkle about 1 cup grated mozzarella cheese (or to taste) on top of the noodles, then drizzle the remaining alfredo sauce on top.
• Cover with foil and bake for about 30 minutes or until hot and bubbly.