High-Protein Hasselback Baked Chicken Recipe With Spinach & Ricotta (6 Ingredients) Low Carb Recipes High Protein Recipes Chicken Recipes Dinner Gluten-free Low Sugar Recipes Budget Recipes

This hasselback chicken recipe with spinach and ricotta sounds fancy, but it's super easy to make. The hasselback technique is simply cutting slits into the food (chicken, potatoes, vegetables) and then putting some sort of filling or seasoning into the slits. Easy! This low-carb, high-protein recipe is easy enough for the weeknights, but would still impress dinner guests.

To make this baked chicken recipe you only need six simple, gluten-free ingredients. Here is your short shopping list for this chicken dinner: boneless/skinless chicken breasts, baby spinach (check out the health benefits of spinach), ricotta cheese (read about the health benefits of this high-protein ingredient), ground paprika and mozzarella cheese.

Serve the moist, juicy chicken breast as a high-protein dinner with a salad and your favorite vegetable.

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Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes 
Servings: 4

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon olive oil
• 10 ounces baby spinach
• 1 cup ricotta cheese
• 4 boneless/skinless chicken breasts
• paprika
• 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

Here's how you make it:

1. In a skillet, heat a little olive oil and cook the spinach until wilted. Add the ricotta and cook about 1 minute. Season with salt and pepper.
2. Cut slits in the chicken breasts 3/4 through (do not go all the way through) about a 1/2 inch apart. Place in a baking pan. Season with salt and pepper and fill each slit with the ricotta-spinach mixture. 
3. Sprinkle the chicken some paprika. Top with the mozzarella cheese.
4. Bake in a preheated 350-degree F oven for about 25 to 35 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through. Chicken is cooked through at 165 degrees F internal temperature on a food thermometer. If desired, broil for a couple minutes to brown up the top. This recipe can easily be cut in half for two servings.

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